Podcasts

I feel that a podcast creates a more interesting way of learning and teaching. Different formats, like audio only, enhanced formatted podcasts, and a video podcasts feed into all students' learning styles. Whether it be the teachers lesson, or a student's project, you can record your own audio and post it on whatever footage you want to relate to it.
I agree with the Kidcast that this could really boost student's confidence, because instead of standing in front of the class on the spot, you can present something that you have already perfected. KUDOS!
A podcast is your creation, a high quality recorded audio file. It can be listened to anywhere like right from a web page (like My Yahoo) or from your computer using iTunes or other software, or from your iPod.
"Researchers at The Diffusion Group predicted this week that the U.S. podcast audience will climb from 840,000 last year to 56 million by 2010. By that time, three-quarters of all people who own portable digital music players will listen to podcasts, up from less than 15 percent last year, the digital entertainment research group said," Gilbert reports. What a very nice, new form, of digital entertainment!

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Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts

Vicki Davis is an excellant, modren teacher. She keeps her students updated on different ways of communication. I am a little out dated myself, and internet communication is huge these days. Vicki learned the technology along with her students. She guides them while they teach themselves. Her students had the interest and motivation to learn. I can respect her perspective. It opens up a different comfort zone.
Alot of students, including myself, learn better when they are able to teach themselves. When you are not limited to pencil and paper you can customize your ways of teaching to practice each students strengths and interests. I hear there are computer classes (K-3 level) that can help prepare for these types of technology learning classes.


http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-teachers-vicki-davis

Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson makes a very good point. Mainly stating, "As educators we need to rethink the fundamental principles in which we are educating our children." It is true that children are steered away from the things they love to do. They are pushed to only excell in the subjects that limit use of natural talents. Instead we find it more important to give students numerous facts to remember rather than inspiring more creativity.
Nurturing a child's creative side will only give them the courage to try a more hands on approach with things. I said this in my last blog, "Children spend all of their spare time watching reality tv and video games." This problem is not just within our educating systems, but also the way our children are being disciplined. I will also quote Picasso, "All children are born artists."


http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEnFwiqdx8
This just goes along with how people are comming into our country and doing our work for less money. Only lets just make a device that puts all human beings to shame...for free and in less than 2 seconds. As far as the spill on technology, we might as well shut ourselves off from the rest of the world and work a little harder to be indispensable. I believe that if our nation relies anymore on technology than we do now, the next major disaster will follow not very long after that.
The scary part to me is that the next few generations of our nation are not prepared for these changes. I say that because so much of the youth of our nation are spending every bit of their spare time in front of reality tv and video games. People are comming from all over the world to utilize our educational sources and then going back to their own. Smarter countries, who are making more progress to educate people for the future, will be taking over ours. For that we can thank our "FREE country".
On another note, this is a bunch of random statistics that are put together through a marketing perspective it seems. Times change. People just have to keep up with the speed. Hopefully we wont end up like I ROBOT! ;)

Welcome

Welcome to my blog. I am Lindsey Clausheide, an elementary Education major. I kind of fell into teaching when i had my son, Devin, who is one year old. Teaching is THE ideal career for a mother. My passion for teaching actually started when i began working at a nursery. I underestimated my patience, and love for kids. The kids actually took to me pretty well, and I began to see myself more in to my profession. I have recently started to enjoy reading. I am reading the Twilight series now and i LOVE it. I have also been trying to figure out the whole cooking thing. I am getting a little better, but still have a lot to learn on that. I love just hanging out with my friends and family, anything outdoorsy...beaching, boating, fun in the sun-period. Other than that I am a full time student, and a full time mother. I would like to introduce you all to my son Devin. Is he not the best looking boy ever?