My quick comments on the three videos. I really enjoyed Sir Ken Robinson's comments. I too believe we have "squandered" creativity, throughout all of education and society. There are wonderfully creative folks in the world, and only a few are ever allowed the opportunity to let that creativity reach the surface.
The film "A Vision of Students Today" was the most disturbing to me. Nothing surprising or shocking, but simply another awakening to the idea that technology has not necessarily helped us to achieve a better life. To some extent, it has taken up more of our time. Most technology, especially in the beginning, was invented to free up some of our time and take some of the effort out of our lives. But, we seem to have less leisure time now than ever before.
In "The Machine is Us/ing Us" we see a mind-boggling look at how computer information has evolved. Is the Machine us? Is it using us? I hope not. I do not think I will ever allow the computer to be who I am. There are wonderful things to do on the computer and incredible amounts of information. But, it only uses a small fraction of our natural senses. We can see a beautiful, digital photo of a mountain sunset on the computer. We can not smell the pines, touch the cold stream, feel the cool mountain air or begin walking on the path that leads us to the mountain - just by visiting it on the computer. We must always look at technology as a tool, which when used properly can do a wonderful job.
I feel pretty much the same way. I feel like all 3 of these videos were very interesting and gave alot of valuable information. I found that the college video was my favorite out of the 3 just for the simple fact that I really wish that high school students who are entering college could get an overall feel for how college actually is. And that video really gets that message across to them. But I also noticed that you choose the video that dealt with the students not being able to be creative. And this is also a major issue that does need to be stopped. Possibly by letting the students have their own input and creativity in maybe just a few things or assignments that they do throughout the day in their classes rather than once a month or so. But those are just my thoughts on it. Great work!
ReplyDeleteI like how you said that you would never let the computer become who you are. I know that I spend a lot of my time on the computer, checking e-mail, facebook, my classes, and playing games. It feels like the computer rules my life at times, but I have to remember to not to let it.
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