PLN 4: Pay Attention

“How do students learn? Are they impersonal, logical, spatial, intrapersonal, musical, Linguistic, Naturalist, or Bodily-Kinesthetic learners?” In the video Pay Attention by an unknown publisher, technology matters to both a child and a teen’s education. This video explained how now a day’s people are digital learners, and how we got that way is from all of the new technology that has come out, and everyone is familiarizing themselves with. For example, today’s college graduates have/had spent ten thousand hours playing video games, over ten thousand hours talking on their cell phones, and roughly twenty thousand hours watching television. As digital learners we send two hundred thousand emails and instant messages by the time they graduate college. Schools around the world should respect the fact that people now days learn better when they are focused on a certain type of technology, such as iPods, podcasts might impact millions of people, and some people would learn better from that type of thing. Who knows, we might someday be totally computerized, and we might not ever need to go to school again.

PLN 3: Education Today

In the video Education Today by Tom Woodward, technology matters to education, and they way people learn. Kids today learn better by using technology, and technology is getting more and more sophisticated. People are depending more and more on technology, and we are learning things from our own inventions. The average student today will have 10 to 14 jobs in a lifetime, and more than half of them, if not all of them, will deal with new technology. So why not learn about technology, and then let the technology teach us.

PLN 2: Did you know??

In Karl Fisch’s video “Did you know”, I learned that a more things happen in a day then you can ever imagine, and things around the world are improving day by day. For example, approximately every 8 seconds, 34 babies are born, that many new lives into the world in one day. About 230,000 people or more signed up for MySpace in a day. More than 3,000 books are published in a day. Many of the majors in college today didn’t exist long 20 or so years ago. Six hundred million internet devices were made in 2006. So I guess you could say that tons of things happen in such little time.