January 17th Videos

All three videos in someway tied in with each other. In Mr. Winkle, Rip Van Winkle wakes from his 100 year slumber to find that the world around him has changed drastically. Mr. Winkle is terrified by the new technology and changed surroundings. He visits a hospital, a office, and a school. He is quit surprised by all of the changes except when he visits the school. To his surprise nothing has changed. Children still sat in desks and learned from teachers, this was such a relief for Mr. Winkle. What is ironic is that education has changed in various ways but the general concept is still the same. Students still learn and teachers still teach.

The second video was a bit witty. The speaker went into great depth about the negatives of education. Where when I was in school we had art, music, and P.E, education has turned into a strictly academic schedule. The is "no room" for the arts anymore. When students cant expand their creativity they are forced to conform to uncreative education. The speaker does a wonderful job of telling his listeners that the arts are important and that students must expand their horizons, to become more versatile. Really great and inspiring video.

The third video was about a teacher who uses new and advanced technology to teach her students. By uses computers and other equipment she is able to teach and entertain in a way that makes all students want to learn. This video kind of relates to Mr. Winkle in that technology has to advance to keep up with our youth today. To many technological advances such as ipods', laptops, facebook, and YouTube, are used for entertainment. Though we can all still learn by the art of lecture, the way our society is today if our generation is not entertained 24/7 we become bored and uninterested. So this video had a lot of pros but some cons as well.