What mattters Final Presentation

What Matters Final Presentation

PLN 26

I read an article about the uses of You Tube for educational value. This article was written by Karl Fisch and found at Fischbowl.blogspot.com . The article was discussing whether the web site You Tube could be a helpful tool in learning.

I personally believe that You Tube doesn’t have much value besides entertainment purposes. But I could be wrong. Maybe the schools could change that. If that was possible You Tube could be used for many class assignments to help enhance the learning situation in class. For example we could use them to present a project, maybe the assignment is to make a short movie over a certain topic and then post it on You Tube so then everyone can go online and view this video. Then if the students wanted to make feedback on the groups project they could view it again at home and make comments on it.

This relates the world because there are a lot of other sites that are questionable about being a good learning tool. Things like MySpace and Facebook are being looked at as a good communication tool for teachers and students. I’m not so sure about that, because like I said about You Tube it’s more for entertainment purposes, but that could all be changed.

PLN 25

I read an article called "Keeping up;U Spk Txt?". The what mattered in this article was how texting is so popular in our society today. It was saying how many people use texting now and days. One really popular device used for texting is the Black Berry or sometimes known as "The Crack Berry" becuase it is such an adictive piece of technology.

This article really related to me becuase I am constantly texting people and think it is a great way to communicate. Whether I am texting my mom to let her know where I am, or texting a friend to see what the latest plans are I am always using texting to talk to people. I probably text people more than actually calling them. It's just so much quicker and easier.

This relates to the world because our use in technology is spreading so much and texting is just another example of that. All over the world people use texting and it is really popular.

PLN 24

I read an article called “Why are kids failing?” by Mrs. Davis which was very relevant to me and most of my classes. The thing that mattered in this blog was obviously why are so many students getting bad grades, even with so many opportunities to excel?! Even though I’m only a student and not the teacher who has to deal with these students and write down the grade in a grade book, I’m still pretty puzzled by this.

This relates to me because in almost all of my classes I have had my teacher give the whole class lectures on how poor some kids are doing and how they really need to bring up their grades, but it just doesn’t seem to get through to anyone! I honestly think that kids are just lazy and so oblivious to the harm they are doing to their high school career. One of my friends was or maybe still is failing all of her classes and said to me “did you know that if you fail a class you don’t get credits? You have to like retake that class! Uh-oh I had not idea.” I knew this and that’s why I try so hard to keep my grades up and good. I wonder if a lot of these kids are like my friend, they don’t even know what the consequences are going to be like…maybe they do and just don’t care. Whatever the reason I don’t think there is any excuse not to keep your grades at least a C level.

This relates to the world, mainly in schools because I’m sure that other students are failing classes too, its obviously not just Arapahoe! But teachers give their students so many opportunities to get help and even make up the work they have missed and some people just don’t want to pass their grade I guess. Every time I see a junior or even a sophomore in my class I kind of feel bad for them, but then again it was their choice to do bad the previous year, that encourages me sometime to do good in class because I don’t want to have to retake a freshman class all over again, and I definitely don’t want to have to go to school in the summer!

PLN week-12 PLN-23

For my PLN I read an article called "Math in life" by James H. who was a teacher who was also a little concerned about what things are really that necessary to teach in math. He was thinking about what else could the curriculum include, or not include that would better the learning for the students.

This related to me because me like many other students will often question and complain about why we are learning these equations that seem hardly relevant to life. Or why I would need to know how to calculate the volume of a trapezoid? Instead maybe we should learn about things that we may not be taught outside of school, like credit, taxes, and mortgage things that we will definitely have to deal with and better know, because you are kind of on your own about learning this kind of stuff.

This definitely relates to the world because everyday people are dealing with credit, and taxes, and maybe even debt...and not so often we are trying to figure out the circumference of a sphere. I think that it would be the best thing to teach things that are much more relevant to life than things that we are learning that aren't that important if we decide to become an architect we can study more about that on our own time in college courses.