New Ways Of Learning

After reading Open Notebook Learning by David Warlick, it made me think about how fast that new technology is coming out. More cell phones and other electronic devices are coming out more frequently then 10 years ago. Technology is not the only thing that is being improved, but teaching and learning is also a new thing that is being improved. Today we are bogging, and using computers to type something or to find something on the Internet in school to learn. Who knows what the next big improvement in teaching and learning will be and what it does. What’s next? Something that you plug into your head to learn something? Computers that you control with your mind? All that I know is that there will be something big and new to improve teaching and learning.

20th and 21st Century Learning

After reading “What Is 21st Century Learning”, I started to notice that there is a big difference between 21st and 20th century learning. The biggest difference is probably that we have more information that is easier to find because we have the Internet. In the 20th century, you had to go to the library or look something up in an encyclopedia to get information that you want. But today we can get that information fast and easy without leaving your house because we have computers and cell phones to look something up. Another thing that is different between 20th and 21st century learning is that we have computers to type something instead of a typewriter. The bad part about a typewriter is that if you make a mistake on your writing, you can’t backspace it, you would have to start over. Another big difference is that we could store something that we typed into a little flash drive that could hold several projects that you did on the computer. One last big difference is that in the 20th century, you would just sit in the class and listen to the teacher and take notes and work. But in the 21st century, you listen to the teacher, take notes sometimes, but unlike in the 20th century we interact with the subject by doing group projects, having a class discussion, and bloging. All of that is a huge difference between 20th and 21st century learning.

The World That We Live In

After reading articles about the wars in the Middle East, I started thinking about how violent our world is. It is shocking that terrorist kill themselves to kill several other people. I don’t get why people want to rule the world and make peoples lives miserable, what is the point of that? Its not like that people would like you and warship you because you rule the world and ruin peoples lives. I don’t understand why people like Bin Laden wanted terrorist to crash airplanes into the World Trade Center. When I actually think about wars and terrorist attacks, I wonder why this is happening and why we are fighting and killing each other.

Technology Is Changeing

I think that it is amazing that how most businesses work, and the way that we are learning is changing because of computers. Also, Facebook and texting is improving our writing. Another way that technology improves our writing is that we can use spell and grammar check. It is interesting that some people learn better from an online class. I wonder when every school will have a computer for every student to do class work on. It is kind of weird to think that most people from the 1970s and 80s thought that it would be impossible for computers to change the way we learn and work.