Podcast

I have a couple of different opinions about these podcasts. Some of the podcasts, such as Smartboard lessons and Kidcasts actually have educational value. The others were basically people carrying on about nothing. Some of the Smartboard lessons had some good information to help me as a college student. I thought some of the Kidcast lessons were interesting. Some of the Kidcast showed how they got kids involved in technology. I liked how they had a Kidcast 2007 award winner.
EdTechtalk and MacBreak Weekly were very boring. It sounded like they were just coming up with stuff off the top of their head to talk about. The people talking on these podcast were basically talking about their life stories or their friend’s stories that they thought were funny. In one of the lessons they couldn’t decide on which cell phone network was the best. In a way, I believe some of these podcast can be helpful by teaching individuals like myself, how to learn a little more about technology. Just from listening to these podcast has shown me how to use iTunes and I found some really interesting information in the iTunes store.
This Week in Photography was rather boring, but it showed how far technology has come in upgrading cameras. In one of the lessons they stated that some of the new cameras are hard to operate because of all the features on the cameras. Ten years ago cameras basically had a on and off button and a button to take the picture. This shows the technological advances the world has made in a very short period of time. I’m taking a personal health class this semester and I found some valuable information on this subject. Some of the podcast have been helpful and some have been worthless, but most importantly I found that I can use other podcast to help me in other classes.

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Vicki Davis

Vicki Davis started out stating that students should have more than just a pencil and paper. I saw that she made the students go up in front of the class and use technology to teach the rest of the class. I believe this method helps the students get comfortable going up in front of the class and speaking and helping their fellow classmates learn. I don’t ever recall getting many opportunities to do these types of activities coming up through school. In a way I feel that not having these opportunities has made me have to do a lot of catch up work since I started college.

I’m in college now and I realize that in the world we live in today you can’t do anything without a computer. I actually feel like I went to high school during the dark ages or something because we didn’t have to depend on computers as much. I think the teacher in this video is doing a good job in getting her students involved with technology before they enter the real world as it is today.

Sir KenRobinson

I believe his speech was absolutely correct. I’ve had a couple of teachers in the past that don’t expect everything to be correct and perfect. Some believe you have to make mistakes to get better, but most of my teachers are in the category that he explains in his speech. An education system that expects no mistakes leads students to believe that if they make mistakes in life then they can’t be creative and successful. I think it’s fair to say that this is true about me. I find myself doing projects that I believe have to be error free to have an impact on what I’m trying to accomplish. I agree with him when he said that the education system focuses entirely too much on math and language. Over the years our schools have turned away from some of the things that our student’s feel are important an interesting to them. I believe that math and language are really important in our everyday life, but not to the extent that we as students are forced to learn.

“Sir Ken Robinson stated that college degrees aren’t worth anything.” This is true to a certain extent. I no at least 10 to 12 people that spent four to five years getting their degrees, but can’t get jobs for those degrees that they received. This probably wouldn’t have happened 30 years ago. Hopefully in the future some of the things he said about needing more art and dance classes in our schools will be emerging and maybe our school systems want be all about doing mistake free work.

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For that video to be only five minutes long it had a lot of very interesting facts in it. After watching this video I realized just how far the world has come over the years in technology. One of the statements that really stood out to me was that China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world. If I would have taking a guess, I would have thought they might be one of the worst. Seeing that India has more honors kids than America, tells me that we need to get our Education system straightened out. I believe that America has a lot of potential for being one of the smartest countries in the world.

This video also shows that job security is not very promising in today’s world. I believe that the world might be letting technology get too far ahead of us. We should not be preparing students for jobs that do not even exist yet. What will happen if those jobs never turn out? I know that the expansion of technology can be a good thing, but in my opinion most Americans including myself depend entirely too heavily on computers and other technological advances. Over all I thought the video was very interesting and that it also gives us a hint of what the future in America and the rest of the world might behold. It could potentially reveal some good things while at the same time bringing along the bad.

About myself

Hey everyone, my name is Keith Burt and I'm a physical education major. I'm 21 years old and in my fourth year of college. I'm from Monroeville Alabama and went to Alabama Southern Community College for two years before moving to Mobile to attend South Alabama. I have a wife that attends South Alabama and a three year old daughter. I'm a guy who's interested mostly in hunting and fishing and watching baseball and football. I also try playing golf a couple of times a week. I decided to attend the University of South Alabama because I figured that Mobile was a good place for my family to live and it's also not to far from my family.