Blog Post#2

What Will Teaching in the 21st Century Be Like?

1. Mr. Dancealot

The video was a video of the professor trying to teach his students different dances. The central message of the video was that students have to learn things by themselves. The students become restless because they know you can only learn dancing by dancing. The author makes his case for this conclusion at the end of the video. The students are not able to perform the dance that was taught. I absolutely agree with the author's conclusion. I believe there is a difference between teaching and learning. The teacher can only present you the information. The students has to learn the information on their own.

2. Teaching in the 21st century.

Robert believes that teaching in the 21st century is all about the challenge. You have to challenge the students to create. My definition of create is building or making something new by your self.
I. Technology has made it possible
a. Internet with all the information a person needs to learn something.
II. Teachers have to show the students how to use the technology
b. Everyone can "google" something. Not many know all of what google offers
III. Information travels fast
a. Students can communicate with everybody in the world.

I feel Roberts is correct on how to teaching is changing. The teacher's only have so much time with the students every week in class. The student's have to find ways they can teach themselves. The beauty of this is that everybody owns the means to teach themselves. If Robert is correct my job as a teacher is to becoming more difficult. The teacher will have to constantly push themselves to learn about technology. They will have to do this so they can teach their students the new technology. People crave information. Information is knowledge. Knowledge is power. The teacher has to get the power to the students.

3. The Network Student

Why does the network student ever need to be a teacher? A teacher has to learn thing on his own. The student will have to learn much information on his own. The teacher with the information they have learned never know when they will have to teach someone. The student never knows when they will have to teach someone to use the technology they have learned to use.

4. Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts

The thesis of this video is that when students are encouraged and provided with technology there are no limits. My reaction to this video is a new perspective on teaching. Teachers do not have to "hold the students hand." The teacher Mrs. Davis is exactly right the students have to be thinkers. They have to find out the methods to accomplish something. I have found over the years that when you teach yourself to do something you remember for a long time. The students after learning to push themselves were teaching the teacher new things.

5. Who's Ahead in the Learning Race?

The learning race is being dominated by the elementary students. The younger you are when showed to use 21st century technology; the farther you will be ahead of everyone else. I am currently an undergraduate at South Alabama. I find problems using a computer very regular. I can barely use a Mac book. I cannot upload an I Movie. The elementary students will be learning to type codes when they reach undergraduate codes. We did not have this technology when I was in elementary school. We are essentially running behind the education race. It is a race that only the elementary students will win.

7. Bringing the Locker Room Into the Classroom

I can use many of the methods used in the article. Coaching is exactly like teaching. Teacher have to encourage learning. Coaches encourage everyday at practice. I think the method used in Coaches is the best way to teach. I will teach students on how to do it. I will not show them step by step. The students will learn better by teaching themselves. I will use the "collaboration method." Students learn better as a team. The team can use each others skill to help everyone learn and become a better student in my classroom.

Blog Assignment #1

What About EDM310?

The picture at the bottom is what I have heard about EDM310. It holds a reputation for a hard class. I asked a few students that have already completed the class. The common thing said about the class was a head shake with the words "get ready." I think many people think it is a hard class because of the pace of the class. It requires a lot of work out of the classroom. EDM 310 puts the learning in the student's hands. I think many classes do not do that, therefore we are not prepared for this class. I think many students are hoping for the "spoon" approach. We normally do not push ourselves to learn on our own.

What fears do you have about EDM 310?

I fear that I could get left behind and lost. I will say it again the pace of this class is laser quick. You have to be prepared for each class and prepared to listen intently. I did not read the blog manual before the second meeting. I was not prepared for using HTML line breaks. I learned by reading the manual in the class. You cannot do that because I missed critical learning about other information containing the practice blog. The information that was being taught was most likely the building blocks of completing a professional blog. The class also shows you that information can be learned by yourself. Preparation is the key to not having this fear. I know now the importance of preparation.

. Compare and contrast EDM310 with other courses you have taken in college or high school EDM 310 is not like any other class I have taken. I will compare the blog assignments to my first English Composition class. We had to write a page consisting of an overview and opinion of the story we read each week. It is similar of having to put down your thoughts each week on a subject you just covered. It is different because our blog makes us show the teacher if we can use the things we have learned during the week by using them properly in the blog. The practice blog made us show the teacher we had a working blog. Project one was to complete a working blog. The blogs have to with s subject and will correlate with the projects and activity of the week. EDM 310 is making you give an original idea about education and using the technology at hand in the world.

What do you think will be the most difficult thing for you in EDM310?

The most difficult thing for me to do in EM310 will be creating a trailer. I have not had much experience with an video camera. I have never uploaded a video on the internet. A trailer is also editing of the video. I have never edited any video. I think that will be the most difficult. I have created rubric before. I also have used twitter for some time. I have not much experience in trailer creating.

What is the best way for you to address this “most difficult” aspect of EDM310?

The best way for me to address my problem of having not much experience is by making trailers. I do agree practice makes perfect. I think I should start uploading "practice" videos first to Facebook or Youtube. I think after I get use to it. I should use google and find out how you can make a trailer. I should then practice uploading them. I think these methods and going to lab for some feedback will help me turn this difficult task into a easy one.

What questions do you still have about EDM310? What ideas do you have about how to address those questions?

I have a few questions regarding blogs. I still do feel comfortable doing blogs yet. I also have questions regarding the projects. The best way to address the questions regarding the blogs is by reading the blog manual and the links to writing a blog. My question is mainly about the format. The questions I have about the projects is how to complete the projects. I will ask Dr. Strange or go to lab to answer those questions. All of my questions are minor ones. I just need to become clear on them because you cannot get behind in this class.

Blog Assignment # Practice

I. Who I am?

II. Why I want to be educator?

III. What a teacher's duties are?

IV. My Passions.

I am Isaac Wiggins. I am currently a junior. My major is physical education.I am a transfer from the University of Alabama. I transferred to be closer to my home. I am from Excel, Alabama. It is a small town south of Mobile. I always wanted to be an educator. I found teaching and coaching fascinating.My mother was a coach. I guess watching her work as I grew up was big influence on my career choice.

I really am looking forward to the opportunity to coach and teach children how to better themselves. The teacher's duties are to help children learn ways to better benefit themselves for the rest of their life. The teacher when around all of the children has to be ready to teach. Children are always a sponge. They soak up so much information. My passions are sports. I love sports. I think competition brings out the best effort for people. I grew up in a family that had a passion for sports. I think the sport discussions really made me developed a passion. My other passions are history. I love history because it repeats itself. It is one of the best subjects to learn. History will teach you many lessons.