When i searched through itunes on WGBH i found an interestinf video in the K-5 category on the coral reef called A Night in the Coral Reef. The video showed a coral reef and alot of the different fish that inhabit the coral reef. The video was like a virtual, underwater tour through the coral reef. The video compared the coral reef like a little city for fish. The video talked about the feeding habits and hunting of fish and talked about different kinds of fish that life in the reef like the Atlantic Spade fish and the Angel fish. The video was a guide explaining what a coral reef was and how it was part of an ecosystem to a younger audience who might not know.
These podcasts are very informative to and very interesting. I found the coral reef video in the K-5 section in itunes so this means it would be shown to students who are between the ages of 6 and 11. Students this young probably don't know much about coral reefs at this point yet but after watching this podcast video they would know what a coral reef is, what it looks like, who uses it or feeds off of it, who inhabits it, and what it is like in a coral reef.The video was very informative for me and i am 21 years old; think about how much a 6 year could learn from videos like this.
Videos are a good way to teach i think because everyone likes tv and movies and this incorporates this love into school. Also the video was entertaining, which no student will ever learn while they are bored. I am a very visual person so this video would be alot easier for me to understand and interpret information than to read from a text book.These videos are a new, exciting way of learning in which students will look forward to watching the videos and learning whatever is on the video.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Edutopia
The edible schoolyard was a really good idea. The program i viewed was at Martin Luther King Junior Middle School as part of their integrated studies. The program came about with a teacher growing her own garden behind the school with the help of students to improve the lunch at the school. The way the class works is the students in the class get to plant their own garden or together grow a garden of their own. They have to do research about what they are growing, maintain their vegetables, fruit, or flowers and make sure they grow. When i was in high school we had a program like this called Agriscience, but it wasn't as extensive as this program. No one ate the food or did much with it, we just helped maintain it every so often in my class.
The edible garden is a very good way to teach because some people are better at books and some people are better with their hands so it gives each student a chance to excel at school. It is an interactive way to learn about science, agriculture, and life. The students learn about ecology, photosynthesis, the water cycle, and many other things that explain the life of plants. Also, this class teaches the students responsibility, how to take pride in their work, and may give some students who don't excel in the classroom a way to excel and feel good about themselves. The edible garden is a wonderful idea for teachers because it gets everyone involved in some way whether its books or hands on. If someone is good at books they can research how to care for the plant. If someone is good with their hands and more manual labor than they can actually plant the plants or do the digging and they actual maintenance.
A night in the Global Village at Heifer Ranch was a pretty scary concept to me. This was a social and emotional kind of learning. They took the students out to a secluded camp and split them up by tribes and each tribe got a different necessity like one got wood, one got food, one got water, and one got nothing and they had to trade and live like people really do in impoverished areas in the world. The ranch also donates livestock to the impoverished.
The night in the globe village over at the Heifer Ranch was a really great way to learn about how the poor really lives. People don't believe how bad the conditions are in third world countries and this shows the students with first hand experience. The students learn about poverty and makes the students survive on their own. As a teacher this would be a good way to teach because it makes the students work together, gets them interested, and is a new style of learning where when students get involved they learn more. This would be an exciting thing as a teacher to get your students involved in and a good learning tool.
The edible garden is a very good way to teach because some people are better at books and some people are better with their hands so it gives each student a chance to excel at school. It is an interactive way to learn about science, agriculture, and life. The students learn about ecology, photosynthesis, the water cycle, and many other things that explain the life of plants. Also, this class teaches the students responsibility, how to take pride in their work, and may give some students who don't excel in the classroom a way to excel and feel good about themselves. The edible garden is a wonderful idea for teachers because it gets everyone involved in some way whether its books or hands on. If someone is good at books they can research how to care for the plant. If someone is good with their hands and more manual labor than they can actually plant the plants or do the digging and they actual maintenance.
A night in the Global Village at Heifer Ranch was a pretty scary concept to me. This was a social and emotional kind of learning. They took the students out to a secluded camp and split them up by tribes and each tribe got a different necessity like one got wood, one got food, one got water, and one got nothing and they had to trade and live like people really do in impoverished areas in the world. The ranch also donates livestock to the impoverished.
The night in the globe village over at the Heifer Ranch was a really great way to learn about how the poor really lives. People don't believe how bad the conditions are in third world countries and this shows the students with first hand experience. The students learn about poverty and makes the students survive on their own. As a teacher this would be a good way to teach because it makes the students work together, gets them interested, and is a new style of learning where when students get involved they learn more. This would be an exciting thing as a teacher to get your students involved in and a good learning tool.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Podcasts
Podcasts are a thing of the future. Podcasts are like radio stations that anyone can talk on and listen to. No longer do you have to have your own radio station to be heard. Podcasts are spreading like wild fire. If you can use a computer you have access to all these podcasts ranging from news, to education, to sports. Some podcasts are random stuff people do once and some are weekly things that get very popular on itunes. The only thing i worry about is in education teachers and students have access to the same stuff. If a student listens to the same podcasts teachers do about teaching, lesson plans, and etc. then won't the student and teacher be on the same educational level? This is not in a classroom for a student to think they are as amart as the teacher. There is no authority in the classroom if this happens.
I listened to some educational podcasts, one that felt like the news to me, and one about what is going on in photography this week. The educational podcasts range from teaching on the podcasts to talking about teachers and lesson plans. I listened to one called kid casts and it was talking about a program where they take teachers to a place for a week. The teachers went to this workshop to learn new advances in science and they studied some new things in science. At the end of the week the teachers made podcasts to tell about everything. This workshop were supposed to be learning how to open science up to students. This brought the podcast into talking about questions. The Kidcast talked students being scared to ask questions and how if they would just ask everything would go smoother in the learning atmosphere. I thought this podcast was pretty interesting, but i wanted to hear more about the teachers' trip and not about how to ask a question.
Some of the other educational podcasts i listened to made me think about talk radio. I am not a big fan of talk radio, but i listened. One of the podcasts was about parents getting involved in their kids life and getting involved with their schooling. One was about teachers and things they are trying to do with the students and lesson plans. One podcast was actually teaching on it. This podcast was about algebra and it was a complete guide about how to do certain algebra problems. .It even had a screen on it showing you how they solved the problems. At first i thought this podcast was students to learn, but it wasn't. The podcast was to show teachers how to teach students how to do the problems. This was pretty cool for teachers. Other podcasts i watched were one on photography, which talked about photography and the new photoshop stuff. After that i watched macbreak weekly, which they just argued about technology and computers the whole time. It was like talk radio for technology buffs.
The podcasts i watched made it seem like teachers are always striving to come up with new ways to teach, new lessons, new workshops. I am going to be a teacher and i didn't think it was going to be a night and weekend job. From the way podcasts are making teaching look, it seems like very difficult job. I think maybe all this technology might be helping teachers, but maybe it is making teaching harder also. If students can look at the same things teachers can then the students can always be ahead of the teacher. Maybe all this technology like podcasts are undermining teachers and putting students on the same educational level. Teaching cannot be as effective if the student thinks they are smarter than their educator.
I listened to some educational podcasts, one that felt like the news to me, and one about what is going on in photography this week. The educational podcasts range from teaching on the podcasts to talking about teachers and lesson plans. I listened to one called kid casts and it was talking about a program where they take teachers to a place for a week. The teachers went to this workshop to learn new advances in science and they studied some new things in science. At the end of the week the teachers made podcasts to tell about everything. This workshop were supposed to be learning how to open science up to students. This brought the podcast into talking about questions. The Kidcast talked students being scared to ask questions and how if they would just ask everything would go smoother in the learning atmosphere. I thought this podcast was pretty interesting, but i wanted to hear more about the teachers' trip and not about how to ask a question.
Some of the other educational podcasts i listened to made me think about talk radio. I am not a big fan of talk radio, but i listened. One of the podcasts was about parents getting involved in their kids life and getting involved with their schooling. One was about teachers and things they are trying to do with the students and lesson plans. One podcast was actually teaching on it. This podcast was about algebra and it was a complete guide about how to do certain algebra problems. .It even had a screen on it showing you how they solved the problems. At first i thought this podcast was students to learn, but it wasn't. The podcast was to show teachers how to teach students how to do the problems. This was pretty cool for teachers. Other podcasts i watched were one on photography, which talked about photography and the new photoshop stuff. After that i watched macbreak weekly, which they just argued about technology and computers the whole time. It was like talk radio for technology buffs.
The podcasts i watched made it seem like teachers are always striving to come up with new ways to teach, new lessons, new workshops. I am going to be a teacher and i didn't think it was going to be a night and weekend job. From the way podcasts are making teaching look, it seems like very difficult job. I think maybe all this technology might be helping teachers, but maybe it is making teaching harder also. If students can look at the same things teachers can then the students can always be ahead of the teacher. Maybe all this technology like podcasts are undermining teachers and putting students on the same educational level. Teaching cannot be as effective if the student thinks they are smarter than their educator.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
I watched Randy Pausch's last lecture and it definitely was worth the hour spent. I feel like i actually learned alot just from his lecture. His lecture really touched my heart. At the beginning of the lecture we found out he had brain tumors and he was terminal and throughout the lecture i felt like i got to know him. By the end of the lecture i felt the overwhelming urge to cry. His lecture really inspired me greatly. It made me wish i had a mentor like Randy Pausch to help motivate and guide me into the person i want to become. His way of speaking and the way he motivates through his life and life experiences really made me think anything is possible.
The things he said made so much sense, but i had never thought of it before. What he was saying about bringing something to the table to make yourself valuable. That is completely true in all cases. The lecture made me start thinking of what i can bring to the table? What can make me a valuable person or part of society? Everything he said was genius. His quote, "experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted," really made me think. Experiences make up your life and you learn so much from them even if you didn't get exactly what you wanted. Maybe you end up with something even more in the end. Randy Pausch is all about living your life with values and morals. He believes in karma and that if you live your life this way everything will work out. One of his head fakes was how to lead your life while trying to obtain your dreams. Everything he says makes you want to achieve gold and to go about it the right way. Most people these days will do anything to get ahead in life, but he teaches his students to achieve their dreams the right way and it will be more gratifying in the end.
I love his theory about the brick wall. I know when i hit a brick wall my first thought is to give up. That is everyones' first thought. Take the easy way out. Randy Pausch says no! He says that a brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how badly we want things and show our dedication. Pausch gives such good advice. He says that everyone needs help and you can't do it alone. That is so right. One way to fail is to be too proud to ask for help. He thinks that critics are good for you. When you are doing something wrong and people stop criticizing you to make you do better then they have given up on you. I never thought of it that way, but i would rather have a critic telling me what i am doing wrong so i can do better than not to have one because they have given up. Some more of Pausch's expert ways of going about life is to tell the truth, be earnest, apologize when you screw up, and focus on others, not yourself. This advice could lead you for an entire lifetime; a lifetime of no regret and achievement.
Basically Randy Pausch is saying to do the fundamentals, work hard, be honest, and bring something to the table to show your true potential. His students are some of the geniuses of the world now because of Pausch, his teachings, and his classes. He teaches his students in a way to open the imagination and take them to their true potential. While he is achieving this with his students he is teaching them lessons in how to go about living your life. Teaching students to have values and do the right thing. He teaches them to not give up because it is only a brick wall you have to break through. He has changed so many lives with his teachings and i just wish i could have known him and learned from him, but i feel like i have learned alot just from listening to his lecture. He has left such a legacy behind that maybe others' teaching and learning habits have changed from his example because if people went by his teachings and advice i believe everyone's life would be much better in careers and in life.
I watched Randy Pausch's last lecture and it definitely was worth the hour spent. I feel like i actually learned alot just from his lecture. His lecture really touched my heart. At the beginning of the lecture we found out he had brain tumors and he was terminal and throughout the lecture i felt like i got to know him. By the end of the lecture i felt the overwhelming urge to cry. His lecture really inspired me greatly. It made me wish i had a mentor like Randy Pausch to help motivate and guide me into the person i want to become. His way of speaking and the way he motivates through his life and life experiences really made me think anything is possible.
The things he said made so much sense, but i had never thought of it before. What he was saying about bringing something to the table to make yourself valuable. That is completely true in all cases. The lecture made me start thinking of what i can bring to the table? What can make me a valuable person or part of society? Everything he said was genius. His quote, "experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted," really made me think. Experiences make up your life and you learn so much from them even if you didn't get exactly what you wanted. Maybe you end up with something even more in the end. Randy Pausch is all about living your life with values and morals. He believes in karma and that if you live your life this way everything will work out. One of his head fakes was how to lead your life while trying to obtain your dreams. Everything he says makes you want to achieve gold and to go about it the right way. Most people these days will do anything to get ahead in life, but he teaches his students to achieve their dreams the right way and it will be more gratifying in the end.
I love his theory about the brick wall. I know when i hit a brick wall my first thought is to give up. That is everyones' first thought. Take the easy way out. Randy Pausch says no! He says that a brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how badly we want things and show our dedication. Pausch gives such good advice. He says that everyone needs help and you can't do it alone. That is so right. One way to fail is to be too proud to ask for help. He thinks that critics are good for you. When you are doing something wrong and people stop criticizing you to make you do better then they have given up on you. I never thought of it that way, but i would rather have a critic telling me what i am doing wrong so i can do better than not to have one because they have given up. Some more of Pausch's expert ways of going about life is to tell the truth, be earnest, apologize when you screw up, and focus on others, not yourself. This advice could lead you for an entire lifetime; a lifetime of no regret and achievement.
Basically Randy Pausch is saying to do the fundamentals, work hard, be honest, and bring something to the table to show your true potential. His students are some of the geniuses of the world now because of Pausch, his teachings, and his classes. He teaches his students in a way to open the imagination and take them to their true potential. While he is achieving this with his students he is teaching them lessons in how to go about living your life. Teaching students to have values and do the right thing. He teaches them to not give up because it is only a brick wall you have to break through. He has changed so many lives with his teachings and i just wish i could have known him and learned from him, but i feel like i have learned alot just from listening to his lecture. He has left such a legacy behind that maybe others' teaching and learning habits have changed from his example because if people went by his teachings and advice i believe everyone's life would be much better in careers and in life.
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