SCOTT MCLEOD
Scott McLeod is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky. Dr. McLeod is also the Founding Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE) which is the nation’s only academic center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators. He is also a co-creator of the wildly popular video series, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). He has received numerous national awards for his technology leadership work. Dr. McLeod is a regular blogger for Dangerously Irrelevant, Mind Dump and The Huffington Post about technology leadership.
TRAVIS ALLEN
The ISchool Initiative project is something that could change all students learn. His arguments on the money that would be saved for both the school and the parents is something to consider since the economy has gone down and is constantly going down. It would be more convenient both money wise and for parents to keep up with their child's grades. No student could lie about homework or grades since the parents could check at any time.
My reaction to these videos were positive since I am very much on board with this idea. Our economy is going down but new technology is always being created. By using the ISchool Initiative it would be more eco-friendly and easier to keep track of our students or children in school. I didn't know about all the apps he mentioned and there are a few I am going to put on my ipod, ipad, or phone as soon as I am done with homework.
ERIC WHITACRE
This video is so amazing how someone could organize and create it. For Eric and the people that helped him make this, it must have taken a lot of time and patience to come up with one hundred and eighty-five people that have never met before. The whole song sounded great they were in perfect harmony.
In the beginning of the video I didn't realize they were not all at the same place, I first thought it was just made to look that way for the internet until I looked closely at the different backgrounds behind them. Seeing something this creative shows how much a person can actually do with the internet when they take the time to learn.
KEVIN ROBERTS
I think he believes it means to be up to date on all classroom technology and for the teacher to know how to use them. To let your students have the full benefit of knowing how to find the information and use it, the teacher has to be familiar with it also. Students need to be engaged and create using their own ideas not just viewing what another person has created because it will be more beneficial for them to learn by creating.
I feel his position towards how education is growing and changing is correct. Our future leaders have access to great resources but if they are not guided to use them how will we ever keep growing in knowledge. If he is correct then not too long from now I believe there will be no need for paper or pencils, it will all be internet resources and projects will be presented online. There could be no reason to come to an actual school and just communicate through the web.
I like your comment about the iSchool Initiative about students being responsible for their grades. I think this is helpful, but only under a few circumstances. The parent first has to care, and secondly, the parent cannot be too obsessive (my mom was like that in my high school, always worrying and telling me if I had an assignment missing...usually meaning the teacher hadn't entered it into the system)
ReplyDeleteI truly hope your comments on the Kevin Roberts video are not, and will not be true ("If he is correct then not too long from now I believe there will be no need for paper or pencils, it will all be internet resources and projects will be presented online. There could be no reason to come to an actual school and just communicate through the web."). I think that coming into a classroom has limitless benefits socially for students. In addition, I feel that relying solely on computers over pens and papers will create a more illiterate, ill-prepared generation than we have ever seen.
You say nothing about Dr. McLeod's post. Did you read it?
ReplyDeleteYou have copied from Mr. McLeod's About Me page without acknowledging the source and enclosing in quotation marks the passage copied. If you copy and paste more than 5 words without acknowledgement, you have technically committed plagiarism. Plagiarism is a very serious offense. You are not the only person who has done this for this assignment. I will attribute it this time to a lack of understanding about how to avoid plagiarism. It is especially important that anyone entering the teaching profession understands what plagiarism is, avoids it in their personal work, and can teach others about it. The copy and paste world in which we now live makes it very easy to do. Careers can easily be ruined through plagiarism. Watch the Class Blog for additional information and assignments.