In this video Richard Miller from Rutgers University talks about using "writing with multimedia" in today's classroom. While I wouldn't dare call myself an expert at writing with multimedia; I am willing to learn and I believe I am learning.
Mr. Miller talks about how in today's society we don't even have to go to a library to write articles, virtually everything we need is at our fingertips. "Writing with multimedia" is using multimedia, such as: videos, pictures, links, etc., in writing. Students in this generation are such visual learners and as teachers we need to learn how to adapt to that. As Dr. Strange said this video shows "what can be done to change from a reading/writing culture to a listening/watching culture".
He states that courses in this type of writing do not yet exist they have to be invented. He realizes the challenges of this type of writing, but believes they can be overcome. He admits that it is not about the technology. I am looking forward to learning more about "writing with multimedia", I think it could be a very valuable asset in our classrooms.
EDM310 is Different
The Chipper Series
In this series "Chipper" is not exactly the model student, but unfortunately she represents a large population of students in American Universities. I have to admit that I have even been responsible for "Chipper moments". Chipper has a lot of misconstrued ideas about education. She believes that procrastination is turning in assignments late, she thinks that she should be taught so she doesn't have to learn, and she believes everything should be handed to her. Because Chipper's teacher did not believe these things and instead drives his students to be independent learners Chipper eventually drops out of school. This happens everyday in U.S. universities. When students are presents with classes where they are forced to learn new things and become independent learners they fled the classroom and blame the teacher. In one of the clips Chipper goes into her boss' office and her boss asks her why she hasn't shown up for class. Her excuses sound a lot like many of the excuses college students use. We have to realize that when we graduate and get a job in a school simply not showing up and giving lame excuses is not going to work. Eventually, after going thourgh several jobs, Chipper has a change of heart and returns to school. This video is a testament of doing things right the first time around. Not everyone gets the chance to go to college. We should take advantage of the opportunity we've been given.
EDM for Dummies
This video showed how frustrating EDM can be for students who know nothing about technology, but refuse to use the help available to make their EDM experience better. With the lab, various tutorials, and the class blog a student has all the help they need to really become technology-literate teacher.
I really enjoyed watching these student-made videos for EDM. Kudos to all who were involved in making the videos. You did a great job! If I were to make a video for EDM I might make one on a student who believes they are technology literate, but is then blown away by what EDM has exposed them to. This is based on my own personal experience. I considered myself to be very proficient in using technology, but their is so much I didn't know. With the help of EDM I have been exposed to Blogging, Tweeting, PLN, and so much more. I still don't know everything, but I am looking forward to learning.
Learn to Change, Change to Learn
The US Department of Commerce ranked 55 industries on level of IT intensiveness. Education was ranked number fifty-five. One woman in the video points out that students receive a more stimulating environment outside of the classroom. This technology that has taught them so much is not even allowed in the classroom. Our schools have really become more like prisons, in my opinion, places where discipline is more important than really learning. Changing education starts with us as future teachers, we will be the ones that are able to change the way students are learning. We have been given the opportunity to engage our students and remodel the classroom. Sure we are going to face, as Randy Pausch called it, brickwalls, but for the sake of our students and our countries future we have to try.
The Secret Powers of Time by Philip Zambardo
In this video Zambardo brings up a lot of good points. He talks about how at the beginning of life we are present hedonists. That is, we live for pleasure and want to avoid pain. The purpose of school is to take children and make them more future oriented or get them to think about goals and consequences. In the US a child drops out of school every nine seconds. This is worse for minorities and males. Zambardo points out that by the age of 21 a boy has spent 10,000 hours playing video games. This alters their brains and the way they think. What are the consequences of this? Well, this means that in a lecture and whiteboard classroom boys will be bored and this type of teaching is passive; they don't control it. If we don't begin to change the way our system of education works we ARE going to lose our students and the US will continue to drop among the ranks. We have to create an educational experience that allows our students to create their education. Where they can have a part in it.
The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us
In this video Dan Pink shares a startling statistic that counters the familiar saying "higher pay = better performance". The study found that this works for purely mechanical skills, but when the task called for rudimentary cognitive skills it did not work. In fact, the higher the reward the worse people did. When people don't have to worry about money there are three factors that affect performance: autonomy, mastery, and making a contribution.
We can relate these factors to teaching our students. Giving our students autonomy, the desire to be self-directed, is essential in schools if we want schools to be an engaging place. That is, if we want our schools to be more than a place of compliance. Mastery is the desire to be great at stuff. If we present learning that cam be fun and allow them to be creative, then they'll want to work harder at it. Making a contribution deals with purpose. When students see education as irrelevant or without a purpose they are going to turn off and shut down. I'll close with a quote from the video, "If we start treating people like people and not assuming that they're simply horses...if we get past this ideology...that make us better off...and our world a little bit better."
1 comments:
Hello Hillary,
I really believe that if teachers can try new things in their classrooms whether that method works or not, I feel that those teachers tried and did not give up on the students. I really like how you summarized and discussed the main topics of each of the videos that were assigned.
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