Thursday, April 4, 2013

Blog Post #10

Adventures in Pencil Integration

This picture was so confusing the first 1492098050234 times I read it. I finally decided to read the comments people posted in response to it and I understand it a little better now. It's making fun of the Mac vs. PC commercials. I think this would be a lot funnier if I got the Mac vs. PC commercial. I like the guy's blog though. He responds to the comments he gets and everything. To explain this comic would be to say, you buy a cheap pencil, you have to deal with what you get. There's some kind of quote for it but I can't remember it at the moment. But if it's cheap, it'll most likely break. If it's expensive, it might be worth it in the long run to spend that much money on it. Maybe it won't be such a hassle to deal with and maybe it won't break.

Christian Teacher

Why were your kids playing games?

Being a Christian Teacher. That's exactly what I want to be. I LOVED reading his post. It gives me hope out there that I can be who I am as a Christian and still be a great teacher. I love how he said he sees God everyday in school. How cool is that? God really is everywhere. Pray may have been taken out of schools, but God is just as present now as He was when we had prayer. Reading this makes me more excited than ever to become a teacher! Being a Christian teacher is exactly what he says it is: " It's about acting justly, loving mercy and walking humbly with God." Micah 6:8. No, I'm not going to be one that's not open to new idea and I'm certainly not going to be a stick in the mud about things.

Don't teach your kid's this stuff please?

Well that certainly wasn't what I was expecting. Scott McLeod is known as one of the best leading academic experts on K-12 technology leadership issues. He is currently the Director of Innovation for "Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency 8" in Iowa. He is also the co-creator of the video "Did You Know?" that I previously blogged about. He also wrote his own book called What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media.

His post was a witty, sarcastic poem that outlined the way society views technology. I'm sarcastic and I barely caught on to what he was doing. I think he's trying to get the point across that technology is good and useful. Technology is a great aspect to learning, and if used in the right, academic way, it can be very influential on a student's academic journey. Today, we use technology in more ways than we even realize on a daily basis. If we prevent our students from being able to use these resources, how can we expect them to survive in the real world, especially now?

In Scott McLeod's post, he outlines many of the cons that administrators, teachers, and parents give about the use of technology. He says that we "shouldn't" allow students to get on social networks because of cyber-bullying, or we "shouldn't" allow students to search the web because they will look at porn. These negatives are so overly used it is irritating. In my opinion, bullying will occur no matter what in any student's academic career. If it's not through the internet, it will be through whispering in the halls and pointing fingers or ganging up on someone at lunch. It will happen. It always does. It's happened to me before and I still struggle with bullying now. It's all part of life.


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