In the video, a modern classroom, by Michael Wesch it discusses how a classroom doesn't fit what is needs to be in a modern day context. It talks about how colleges are wasting the money of the student on textbooks they never use. How in class students are never using their computers for work because there is no work that is actually needing to be done on computers, because the professors don’t know how to do something like that on a computer. There is the information on the board but it is not intriguing it is just simple writing. It is missing videos, pictures, audio, and many other thing that they could be doing with a device such as a smart board.
I do not think that technology is not being used to its full potential. I really think that it is. I came from a school where the last time they got a new textbook was in the early 90’s. They had little netbooks from 2008 but they could hardly work on the internet today, and they had so small screens and keys that they were virtually worthless to use as a tool. They did not have flash player on them so you could not run a video or any type of media. They did not have enough memory for word so we had to have computer like the one I have included a picture of. When I came to Powell in 8th grade last year I was shocked by the uses of the technology, the fact that there was a smartboard in every room that the teachers actually used. We watched videos from the internet not ones that were just on a VCR from 20 years ago. It opened my mind up to new possibilities. I was no longer the smartest kid in the class because I read when I was young and had a deep fascination in science. There were new people, different types of people that I could meet not just two groups the Jocks and the Nerds. Now there were geeks (yes it's different than nerds), emos, band kids, skaters, soccer player, cross country people, football/lacrosse players. I know this is off topic but it is a part of this steam from technology in the classrooms. It is what makes a modern school what it is, technology, and the people. So I think that classrooms are not struggling to catch up with the modern needs for an education, I think that they are embracing those needs and using them to their best abilities.(Re Wright
I forgot to put in the computer picture, sorry
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ReplyDeleteSo much better with response my friend. Much better connectivity and reflection. But your first two sentences in response sort of contradict each other, so be aware. Topic sentence still needs to give the full source information-title of video. Use some examples to bring to light what you are showing with the summary points, but this is much better. Keep watching your comma usage. Much better though-this is a vast improvement-17/20