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.

Machines are Using Us!

In Michael Weschs video "Machines are using us" he talked about how machines are getting far more complex, and are getting easier to use, and how every time we click on something we are teaching the machine. For example, when you click on a link to something on the Internet, it saves every click to a folder called "History", and "Cookies" and also passwords and some other private information. With that being said, this can also lead to Viruses, if your computer ends up saving something harmful, another machine can sometimes go in and steal that information. The computer saves everything, and "learns" from what we learn. Is the Machine Us? Of course there's no limit to what some machines can do, most computers are capable of, email, Microsoft products or any other writing program for that matter, Internet, and Instant Messenger. His video explained into more depth how written text is linear, and how text on a machine can be way more flexible, and is more efficient to use. Machines also make it easier for contacting other people, like E-mail, and Instant Messenger etc. Also, the Internet can search for 1 million or more results for something you are trying to research in less than a second. It is also, a lot easier to keep in touch with people, and its way faster then sending a message through the mail, and it takes about a fraction of the time to write it too. With that, you don't have to spend time erasing, and spending money on new pencils and what not, because there's a great thing called the "backspace" key or "Delete" key. It’s also very neat, and can be very organized, that's great for people who can't do anything neatly, and for people who can't spell (like myself). Machines are always getting smarter, and pretty soon the world might be totally computerized, and everything will be all the way around easier to use.