Week+1+Readings


 * Here is where I will type my thoughts regarding this week's readings. **

This week I was really moved by the Cyborg video. It honestly scares me to think of humans melding with technological devises to the point that humanity as we now know it would almost be a thing of the past. It makes me really stop and think about where we have come as a society. I know that with technological advances in science and education these changes are inevitable but sometmes I really miss the "good 'ole days." My children have grown up with iPhones and electrical devices glued to their ears and hands and that is not the case when I was a child. Even our TV shows have changed. I was just telling my husband this AM, "Remember when Sunday nights meant family movie night with the Muppets?" My children don't even know who the muppets are. Imagine what my children, now 4 and 6, will be saying 30 years from now to their children, "Remember the good 'ole days when we used to have iPhones and actually watched TV instead of having it implanted in our minds through a chip." I also really enjoyed the discussions and readings regarding the two learnings theories, Constructivism and Connectivism. It seems that we are in an age of Connectivism. With social networking on the rise and "googling" a must, our students today have no other choice but to learn through this theory of thought. Making connections with their learning and allowing the network, whether through the internet or social interactions, to be our guide we can continue to gain knowledge between various sources of information. I think of Facebook when I think of this learning theory. Not only can we learn about others' personal lives but more educational organizations are joining the craze therefore allowing for even more networking and thus increasing our knowledge of a varity of educational databases. Forums, blogs, wikis, and other networking platforms are a great way to learn from our society and through interacting with the world around us instead of just being innocent bystanders and just learning through the old "set and get" mentality. Education is definitely changing it's delivery approah.