Off and running

     Well, it is the end of the term for my Educational Studies class, and that means that once I get my grade for this blog and for my PBL project, I really don't have to add to the blog anymore. Don't get me wrong, I will, I have found that I have been enjoying the whole blogging experience. It is nice to know that some of my ideas exist somewhere on the web, some place that I can direct someone to in order to further their understanding of my educational philosophy without having to give some long-winded pompous diatribe about how glorious my ideas are. You know, they would get the chance to figure that out themselves. Over the course of the-well, course- I haven't seen much else in educational technology that would significantly change the way I think about it. I mean, how much higher praise can you give something past thinking that it is "totally awesome." Excuse my use of technical terms.
     I feel that in the course of social evolution, we must see that our tools change with our times. If our teachers cannot see that there are some aspects of education that do not need to be changed, and some that are, our system is not bound to succeed. In reality, you never need a protractor and ruler, but schools have both. It is in our ever changing lives that I see young people becoming more adept at using complicated technologies. Is it that our children are becoming more intelligent over time? There are studies that suggest so, but I feel that the things that we have lying around for kids to fool around with have changed since I was young. I hope I do not have to say that me getting my first cell at nineteen, and a kid getting their first iPhone at nine will create a discrepancy in technical knowledge when they are the same age I am.
     I feel that the class philosophy is such that we cannot be our teachers. It is an entirely different world that embraces and integrates technology into as many aspects as we can muster. In such a world, we can only look to tech-integrated educators to tackle an increasingly more hostile educational environment. Nights alone at the desk scribbling away notes can be done away with, our slideshows, our speeches, our presentations, and our homework can all be enriched with educational technologies.
     In my classroom, if anything I won't stray far from an actual lecture format, but it will be supplemented with Prezi and write-ups on blogger. Prezi is easy to use, exciting, and can be reached from any hotspot. I can see that it will be nice to have something outside of Powerpoint in the class. I think that the students will appreciate it as well. I knew all too well that the teachers who used Powerpoint made all of the mistakes that I learned about in class this term. It was pages of text, and can I listen and write at the same time? No. No one can. Well, women probably can, but that doesn't help me. I want to do the teaching, and I want my slides to help, not the other way around.
     Once I am out of this class, I will probably work on the blog from time to time, it is nice, and I think I am well suited to do it. The moment that this blog is not affiliated with the University, I am going to post something very inappropriate, for the sheer thrill of it.

I should have made a vlog about blogging my glog.

Check my assignments for my Glog.