Blog 3

A VISION OF STUDENTS TODAY

If walls could talk in the college classrooms, they would ask us, "Why?" Why do we spend more time watching t.v. or listening to music, than studying for exams that benefits us more? Why do we overlook the necessities in life that actually advances us in longterm situations? Many of these situations helps us grow as young adults, into maturs adults.

While in school, we pick a field to study and have a lifestyle in mind that we plan to achieve. Although many of us achieve that academic goal of graduation, sometimes we might get the unexpected. This film made me realize, when I graduate i'll probably have a job that don't even exist today. Many people dream what they want to become at an early age, but how do you really expect the unexpected?



KELLY HINES

Learning seems to be getting more involved with technology as the years go by. As teachers, how can we transition from paper and pen to paper, pen, and computer software if we lack understanding of basic technology? Teachers must continually be learners, willing to do research of trends and tools. Simply to understand where students come from in actions, and relate to their understanding of "cool".

Kelly Hines said, "For teachers to be successful, they must be self-motivated in the pursuit of understanding." That is as real as it gets. If a teacher is not self-motivated in the beginning, where will his/her motivation come from? In the process teaching skills of literacy and technology, I believe life skills are just important. By a student being able to be theirself in creativity and innovation, the possibilities in life really does have no limits.



TECHNOLOGICAL ILLITERATE TEACHER

I believe all educators should have a basic level of technological knowledge also. The writer said technology is apart of life, not just an add on. I agree with that statement 100%. Many things in life evolve around technology. By being illiterate to basic technology, could paralyze you in the future.

Many people in fact say, "I don't know how to run a computer and might be proud of it. But the sad part is they're not even willing to understand it. The writer said, "If a teacher today in not technologically literate-and unwilling to change, it's equivalent to a teacher 30 years ago who didn't know how to read and write." The thing is, we need to view life as the movement of a clock, instead of just listening to the ticks..



GARYS SOCIAL MEDIA COURT

I think statistics are very important numerical facts that help us understand things in an entertaining point of view. The statistics shows that 236 million people a week in US listen to the radio. I think that is amazing. But I always question how close are statistics? With certain things, I personally think they're more of an educated estimated guess than of facts.

66.4 billion dollars were made from all music sold this year. 11.4 billion of that is made from the music concerts world wide. I guess that's why so many people want to be "rappers" (lol). Even though these numbers might be close to truth, I still would encourage any person thats wanting to go into music or not, to still get a college degree. Money is like sand, while knowledge is concrete.