Innovation

Yesterday we played hide and seek. Everyone would hide and the finder would try to find them. When they found them, they would ask them an intelligent question. If they got it correct they got to keep hiding. If they got it wrong, they became a finder as well.

The takeaway message was that we will remember that day longer than just sitting in class taking notes. There are new and innovative ways to teach.

Ted Talk 2 Review

He is talking about saving children through education. He says that they don’t care how many children fail, they won’t change anything. He wonders why they haven’t changed anything. He says that we need to know data right after to help them, not at the end of the year, because then you can’t help them. He says that we can’t just give up. We have to keep going until we find something that works. Failure should not stop you. Give young people all the opportunities. America is running out of time. We need to prepare the young people because they are our future. If we don’t teach them and help them the world is going to have a problem. Teachers need to let their students know that they refuse to let them fail. This will help them learn better because they know they can’t give up. We have tutoring but not encouragement and sometimes that is all a student needs.

1.        Why do you think they haven’t changed?
2.      How do you think they could change it?
3.      Why do teachers and educators not care if the students fail?
4.      How do you think the teachers could help the students better understand the work?
5.      Do you believe some teachers give their students encouragement?
6.      Do you really believe that if teachers act this way, students are not as interested in school? Why?
7.      Do you think technology will play a big role in helping students get better grades?
8.      What led you to believe this way?
9.      Do you think that the teachers teach this way because maybe this was the way they were taught?
10.      Do you think their teachers gave them encouragement?

 

    

Innovation/Technology Ted Talk

http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web

The Ted Talk I chose to watch and summarize is by Kevin Kelly, titled "The next 5,000 days of the web." He gave this talk in December of 2007. He talks about how the Internet is only 5000 days old. He says that it is really amazing that in only 5000 days we have access to things for sale, people’s phone numbers, weather, sports scores, and more. He says that your brain and the web work similarly except that your brain does not double its size like the web does. We have a whole bunch of screens in front of us, but they are not separate machines, they are all portals to one machine. This is also sometimes known as “The Cloud.” He suggests that everything will eventually be on the web, such as Word. Word is currently not the web but it will be. The web is like a black hole, sucking every little bit of information into it. The old world was where we had atoms, but now it is made up of digital things. He says that the next thing will be those two things combined. He lists the steps in which we received the web and how it worked and how it came to be. The stage we are I now is the linking data together. He explains that he believes that we will now go to the world of The Internet of Things, where everything will be connected to the Internet. He says that we have become so independent on the Internet that you don’t remember things any more, you just rely on Google. He concludes that in the next 5000 days, that it will not just be the web. It will be smarter, more personalized, and will be more ubiquitous. Begin to think about this: that the world and web is a very big organism.

1.Why do believe that this will happen in the next 5000 days? 
2. Is this a reasonable suggestion?
3.What led you to become interested in this?
4. How did you calculate what will happen in the next 5000 days? (Why do believe this is what will happen and not something else?)