Post 11: Michael Welsch- A Vision of Students Today

I thought Welsch's video was cool. I found it to be very similar to my college experience. One thing in particular that I did not agree on personally was being on facebook or my computer doing other things during class. Yes, I will admit that I do check my facebook before class starts if it is in a classroom with accessible computers and I have nothing else to while waiting for class to get started, but believe it or not some students like myself do want to learn and do listen in class. BUT, in alot of cases that scenario is true. I was embarrassed when one of the professors at our College of Medicine came to me about one of my students playing on facebook and listening to their ipod the whole time class was taking place. I thought it was disrespectful, but the professor informed me that if I was to come by during the Fall semester and take a peak in his door window, that I would see at least 10 out of 20 medical students playing solitaire or browsing their facebook pages. That scares me quite frankly! Shouldn't our future doctors of America be paying attention in class?

Post 8- Other Resources

I really enjoyed looking at this site: http://practicalprincipals.net . I found the resources they offered to be very beneficial. They had alot of good information to offer such as using different tools to add to your podcast/videocasts to make them more interesting. I specifically liked the "Bluebird's Classroom", which is a blog that a middle school teacher writes. They are blunt and quite funny to say the least. I thought the blog written today by the teacher about President Obama boring the students with his speech was interesting. As I watched the news the past few days, I have wondered why teachers and parents did not seem to be concerned with the students watching it, in fact they seemed aggravated. This blog helped me to understand the reasoning.
Also, I really liked the idea of the "Fruit Machine", which is a site that you can visit to play a learning game that helps students learn vocabulary words and their correct definitions. Depending on your age group of students, this could be very beneficial. Overall, it showed me that their are so many things out there, creative things that we can all use at teachers to help educate our students in not so boring ways. There is a whole other world out there that I never knew existed - a teacher's world. I love it.