Reflections on Three Videos

[Linda]

Linda Smith TECS390
Reflection on Video one: Vision of Students Today
Date: June 4, 2008
Posted by Danner-Kuhn June 3, 2008 12:25

Reflection: I found this to be very informative. I did know (unfortunately) about the amount of money spent on books and how infrequently they are utilized. I also understand that there are too many things to do in one day and multitasking is essential, any mother knows that, and add being a teacher and a student and I feel like I get great training in this area. Students today will get their information in a completely different way than I did, so I need to make sure I am aware of all that the tools and resources that are available to them and to me. On a different note, I attended K-state and that classroom looked uncomfortably familiar. Ha.

Reflection Two
Warlick
May 26, 2008 8:44p.m.
Summarization of Literacy in the 21st century

Reflection: The only thing that bothers me about this video is that he seems to be approaching the idea that things are different today in a negative way. He says that the changes are “coming down on us”. And since when has any generation really been able to predict the future for the students they are educating? To some degree maybe, but not with any guarantees or certainty-that’s the exciting part of life. I just feel that we should take the changes into consideration, adapt as needed and understand that life is always about doing just that. Growing and educating ourselves continuously is essential. I have a fairly good background in literacy, as it is defined today, but I understand that the idea of literacy is changing because of the three things he addresses-unpredictable future, information savvy students, and the new information landscape.

Reflection Three
Robinson
May 26 2008, 8:37
Creativity

Reflection: WOW. He was so entertaining and informative. I emailed this to my sister who is also an educator and I think he is right on the money. Having worked in elementary education for a few years, I am amazed at the number of students taking medications for various conditions that are “newly defined” and not completely understood. The statement that creativity is as important as literacy is very profound, but I whole-heartedly agree. How sad that we stifle children’s creativity and make them afraid to take chances. You know too that as educators we are stifled because we must “teach to the test” to meet State standards. Of course we are pushing math, reading, science, and social studies. How else will we “make the grade” and get that the necessary funding. I know a lot of teachers that miss the opportunities to be creative themselves and miss instilling the love of creative expression in the children because of No Child Left Behind. Good in theory, but not helping.
I liked his definition that intelligence is diverse, dynamic, and distinct. I have always believed we learn from seeing, hearing, and doing, and that we must teach to each individual’s style of learning.

[Amy Brungardt]

Amy Brungardt TECHS 390

David Warlick Summarizes the 21st Century Literacy Skills
David Warlick
May 26, 2008
Posted: June 5, 2008
Reflection 1: I like David’s outline and presentation for a couple of reasons. First, I thought it clearly shows where children are today in what interests them and ultimately what they are growing up around. It is a great video for teachers who are, may I say, “stuck,” in their old fashion ways of teaching. We need to embrace it. What caught my eye was the idea that we need to prepare our students for an unpredictable future. Like he said, it is the first time that we as teachers don’t know what we are preparing our students for. I find that very interesting!

Using Del.icio.us by uTech Tips
May 27, 2008
Posted: June 5, 2008
Reflection 2: I saw this before I set up my del.icio.us site and found it to be very helpful! It is calm, easy to watch and listen to, simple to understand and a very creative way to in present it. I found it very fitting to watch this after watching Warlick’s video. This is exactly what he said in that it is a new way of taking the information and presenting it. I posted this video to my del.icio.us website so that I can always have it handy for whoever I can convince to start their own.

Do schools today kill creativity?
Ken Robinson (TedTalks)
Posted: June 5, 2008
Reflection 3: WOW! I loved the video! I found him to be so entertaining to listen to and yet so informative. I think he makes a great point in that, yes, so often head knowledge is considered more important than the arts (music, art, etc). How sad that we do not encourage all parts to be important. I think of how we are each unique, no two are the same, and we need to respect and flourish the uniqueness we have! I have added this video to my del.icio.us and hope to share it with others! I think this could be useful for any teacher or future teacher.

A Vision of Students Today
May 27, 2008
Posted: June 5, 2008
Reflection 4: I have seen this video before in other classes and I always come away thinking. I think it just proves that we as teachers need to step with the students in technology and use it as often as we can in our classrooms. Students are used to quick tech savvy things outside of the classroom that they are so bored inside without it. They need to be met where they are to reach out to them so they can learn and want to learn. Great video to demonstrate this!

[Linda]

Amy- I too thought that Robinson was entertaining and insightful. Good idea to put these on delicious to have for future reference, I will have to do that as well. Plenty of people I work with would like to see these I bet.

[Emily Baker]

Emily Baker-TECS 290
Relfection 1
David Warlick Summarizes the 21st Century Literacy Skills
26-May-2008

I did enjoy David Warlick's summary of our literacy skills in the twenty-first century. It was interesting to see where he viewed students in today's world, and what interested them. It's important to realize that everything is constantly changing in our world, and with that our literacy skills need to grow and expand also!

Reflection 2
Do Schools Today Kill Creativity?
5-June-2008

I agree with Amy in the fact that I LOVED this video! I actually was intrigued watching it and it really held my attention. This is a video that I bookmarked and categorized in my del.icio.us social bookmarking site. Ken Robinson made a great point, and it's always important to realize that all students are unique, and each learns and expresses him/herself in different ways.

Reflection 3
A Vision of Students Today

It was crazy to hear how much money is spent on textbooks, and how little they actually utilized. This was crazy, but it didn't actually surprise me very much. It always is a good idea for teachers to use different resources than just the textbooks, because many times the textbooks are not a good source of information. It's great for teachers to get out of the traditional mode of only textbook teaching. The more teacher's branch out, and the more different resources brought in to the classroom, the more students will be able to learn!

[Katie Ganger]

Katie Ganger TECS 390
Reflection on Video 1: A Vision of Students Today
Posted June 3rd, 2008
June 8th, 2008

This video should open the eyes of every student and bring them to realize that students have to take the initiative to learn themselves. During this video, I noticed one particular girl holding a sign showing that only 18% of teachers knew her name and her average class size was 118. Some material assigned for students may or may not be relevant to their life, so students may feel they shouldn’t have to read it. That is why we must reach students in a way that interests them to learn what they are asked to. Multi-tasking is the only way in the world today to get anything done throughout the day. I come away from this video nodding my head and realizing that nearly all those issues discussed are true in my life as a college student. Great video!


Reflection on Video 2: David Warlick
Summarizes the 21st Century Literacy Skills
Posted May 26th, 2008
June 8th, 2008

David Warlick explained his insights and opinions on students today. He talked about going to the library to find information for almost anything, but today we turn to the internet where we can find a wide variety of people giving their knowledge on a topic. Classroom 2.0 is a website that he mentioned and I’m very excited to learn more about is as well as incorporate into my work I’ll be doing for this class. Like it’s been said before, we must prepare out students for an unpredictable future. Warlick also mentioned we must change our ways of teaching, this includes all those teachers that have taught the material the same old way for thirty years. The time for change is NOW!


Reflection on Video 3: Robinson
Do School’s Kill Creativity?
June 8th, 2008

Robinson made a great point that children born today will enter the working world in 2025, how are we to teach them the information they need to know when we don’t know how the world will be in 5 years? Excellent point! Making mistakes to some children are the worst thing they could do. We need to reassure students that it’s perfectly fine to make mistakes, but we need to learn from them. I think Robinson makes another good point in that aside from teaching the need-to-know information, we have to incorporate and allow creativity into the classroom. Creativity should set students apart from each other; it should add their own unique touch to their work. Robinson used humor to get his point across in this video which made it much more interesting to watch and learn.

[Heather Stallbaumer]

Heather G. S. Stallbaumer
Week 1 Reflection

Reflection One: Mr. Winkle Waves

I feel like the video is so true! Technology has come so far. Every year the stride in technology is huge! Many students learn better when their lessons and assignments are related to technology. Children now days use technology daily and that is all they know. So many things are so much easier with technology than doing it “old school”.

Reflection Two: A Vision of Students Today

I think that is neat how students are able to relate to students technology vs. old school classrooms. Using technology is a child’s life now days where lecture and textbooks are a thing of the past. I feel like students learn better if they are involved in the hands-on versus the lectures. I think that this is so true! The amount of knowledge about technology that kids have to have to survive in our society is huge. If students don’t understand technology, they aren’t going to make it very far in our society!

Reflection Three: David Warlick summarizes the 21st Century

I feel like Mr. Warlick has some very good points! If we as educators are suppose to educate our students, we to need to stay up to date on technology and information. Incorporating technology into the classroom helps us as educators to understand our students, be aware of what is going on around us and also the new hands on approaches that are available with technology.


Reflection Four: Using delicious by uTech Tips

I think that del.icio.us is a useful site and I can’t wait to continue to learn more about it. This will allow me as an educator to incorporate it into my lessons in my elementary classroom.

Reflection Five: Do schools today kill creativity? (Ken Robinson, TEDTalks)
A challenge for educators in today’s society is the fact that we need to continue allowing students to be creative no matter how we do it. Using our education degrees to focus on keeping our students creative no matter how we do it! He does a super job on using humor to help us understand the job that we are about to undertake and the importance that we have in each students education.

[Jenny May Stewart]

Jenny May Stewart TECS 390
Reflection on Video 1: Using del.icio.us by uTech Tips
May 26th, 2008
June 8th, 2008
This video was very helpful and reiterated how to use del.icio.us. I really like how the videos not only tell you but they actually show you an example of how you manipulate through the website. This video is similar to the one that I watched when I initially set up my account but I still liked watching it again so that it is crystal clear.


Reflection on Video 2: David Warlick
Summarizes the 21st Century Literacy Skills
Posted May 26th, 2008
June 8th, 2008
David Warlick did a great job of mentioning 3 important factors that need to be considered in teaching technology in today’s society. I think that change is great and that we should try to be open minded when we learn something new. Some teachers who have been teaching for 40 years might find this extremely difficult as well as time consuming. I think we should really consider all types of technology options when teaching our students. As new teachers, we are lucky to be learning all of this now instead of trying to figure it out when we are in the classroom.


Reflection on Video 3: Robinson
Do School’s Kill Creativity?
June 8th, 2008
I thought that Robinson was wonderful and very humorous. I really liked the story about the little girl who wasn’t doing well in school and who went to the Dr. and they told her to take her to a dance school. I think we should embrace what children are good at instead of sway them in the direction we feel is best for them. Creativity is so important and with the new technological world among us, it is needed more than ever. I want to be sure that I allow all of my students the opportunity to be creative even if it means taking away from something else.

[carolyn Walker]

David Warlick: Summarization of literacy in the 21st Century
Reflection: I found this video very interesting and informative. I liked that he thought that students are coming into a unpredictable future where education is concerned. I am not sure that it is really that unpredictable but I would say that education is changing and it is changing fast, if teachers are not up to teaching students for the future, then students will not be ready for the future. Kids seem to catch on to technology better than anyone it seems like and teachers need to be versed in the literacy of which students are accustom to. As a soon to be teacher I still have a long way to go in learning all the uses of technology within the classroom. Listening to podcast and taking classes are one way to keep up with what is out there.

Reflection two
Ken Robinson
Do Schools today Kill Creativity?
In my children's school they have a arts night, where the community can come and see what the students have been doing through out the year. This year the amount of art work was very small. The fifth and sixth grades had nothing on their tables. The reason for this was lack of time for the students to do any art projects. The art projects in the lower grades consisted of projects integrated with the curriculum and there was very few. Kids in school today are very limited on art projects and this is very sad. I hope to have a art project each month when I have a classroom of my own.

Reflection Three
Using Del.icio.us by uTech Tips
I used this video to help set up my del.icio.us account and it was a very easy process. The video was very easy to watch and listen to; the narrator talked with a good pace so that I could open my account with limited frustration.

[Chris Schmidtberger]

David Warlick

His presentation was very insightful. He points out that we are preparing students for a future that is indescribable, and he's exactly right. While his video is short, I understand that it causes me to think that students will need to be shown the a path that will help them become successful.

Ken Robinson

His video was absolutely admirable. I believe every teacher should have to watch it. Creativity is how so many wonderful ideas have been brought to life. I understand that it's really hard, especially with No Child Left Behind, to allow kids to think outside the box. I will try and incorporate every activity with creativity, whether it's mine or the students. I believe that creativity is perhaps the most important aspect a young child can use.

uTech Tips

This video allowed me to set up my del.icio.us account easily and successfully. I liked how it was short, and it really allowed me to follow step by step instructions on what I need to use and how to use it.

[KEvin Hoff]

Using Delicious
Comment by KEvin Hoff on June 6, 2008 at 3:43pm
Delete Comment I thought that this was a really good video. I watched another similar one like this on a different Youtube page that allowed me to get my account set up and navigate my way through it. I really like the ideas that this website has and it makes it really easy to access.

Ken Robinson
Comment by KEvin Hoff on June 6, 2008 at 3:58pm
Delete Comment I thought this guy was great. He really hit some great points on how unpredictable things will be in the future so how do we teach for it. I really liked how he talked about kids not being worried about being wrong, they will still give it a try. It is often the school that makes them worried about being wrong and this stifels creativity. I really agree with this guy and what Amy said that teachers need to foucus on what the students are really gifted at.

David Warlick
Comment by KEvin Hoff on June 6, 2008 at 3:47pm
Delete Comment I think that this video was really good because it helped give some new ideas and put some things into perspective for how classrooms and students are changing. I think that the students have a really good perspective on how the world in changing and they can be a great tool for us teachers by helping us learn what they will need to know in the future.

[Alicia Denning]

Using delicious by uTech Tips
May 27, 2008
Reflection: July 18, 2008- I thought that this video was very informational. It is something that I wish I had seen prior to setting up and using my delicious account. I haven't really used it that much since I set up the account. It really does make sense and can be very beneficial. Also, I had not thought about using this for my students. It would make sense to have students set up accounts so that they can manage their information/sites. Especially in school that share laptops and not every student has their own. I didn't even think about this aspect of delicious and I was happy the video provided that for me.

A Vision of Students Today
May 27, 2008
Reflection: July 18, 2008- I thought this video was very unique. It had so much information and it really opened my eyes to things that I hadn't thought about before. It said so much without speaking a word. I guess it really goes to show that actions do speak louder than words. I also think that it makes our futures very uncertain an definitely more difficult. We must figure out how to address these things and create a successful balance of material so that the students are not bored or discouraged. We never think about the time or money that we put into education, and this video really helps to paint a better picture.

David Warlick Summarizes the 21st Century Literacy Skills
May 26, 2008
Reflection: July 18, 2008- This video, I think, just puts things in perspective. We are facing an unpredictable future. Our economy is in a rapid decline, our relations with other countries are not great, and not even our leaders are sure of what the future holds for us. I find it a little scary myself, and this definitely becomes an issue for teaching students. The info savvy students segment is definitely something to think about also. Many young students know more about technology and what is out there more than I do. Children have access to so many things that I didn't even have access to at their age. They also have the world at their fingertips which can be great and not so great. They can see things that they may never see in real life, but some of those things are ones that we as parents/educators do not want them to see. However, we cannot shelter them from all of these things that are out there. All of the things that Mr. Warlick discusses are very true. We will have to face all of these things in our classrooms, and we will have to decide what the best way to address these things is. Literacy is always changing and I do not think that it has done so more that in the last few years.