Seth Godin: What is School For?

What is School For?   How would you like to learn? What would you like to be taught?

 

I would like to learn not by books and boring papers, but by using our technology. We were born in the digital era, so it's all we know! It's hard to sit through class, not doing anything, but if we use technology, we will always be occupied. Teachers won't have to yell at us for goofing off in class. We only do that because we are bored. With technology as our main source of education, that wouldn't happen. I would like to be taught every school subject with an interactive program. Not with a projector in the front of the class, but with our own technology that we own. I think we should learn the way that we know.

AR

What kind of learner are you? Click the link below and discover your preferred learning style!
CLICK ME NOW! PREFERRED SYLE OF LEARNING

Define and explain which learning style said that you prefer.
__kinaesthetic________________________ This means ____

the sensation by which bodily position, weight, muscle tension, and movement are perceived

On Thursday we discussed AUGMENTED REALITY. How is AUGMENTED REALITY being used in the classroom. CLICK HERE FOR EDUDEMIC AUGMENTED REALITY *Editor's Note: This is one of my ALL-TIME favorite websites.

After you've read through the article, list the five AR websites that interest you the most, describing them briefly (You may cut and paste the information from Edudemic):
1.PhysicsPlayground:One of the many, many engines behind PC games received a second life as an engaging strategy for illustrating the intricate ins and outs of physics, in a project known as PhysicsPlayground. It offers up an immersive, three-dimensional environment for experimenting, offering up a safer, more diverse space to better understand how the universe drives itself
2.Sky Map and Star Walk:Available on Android and iWhatever devices, these deceptively simple applications pack a megaton punch of education via an innovative augmented reality approach. Both involve pointing the gadget to the sky and seeing the names of the currently visible stars, planets, and constellations pop up, along with additional astronomical information
3.Project Glass:One of the most ambitious augmented reality initiatives comes straight from Google, who believes its Project Glass holds potential far beyond the classroom. Notoriously, it requires a pair of glasses versus the usual smartphones and laptops, and current experiments involve placing users in first-person extreme athletic experiences, snapping photos, and more.
4.New Horizon:Some Japanese students and adults learning and reviewing English lessons enjoy the first generation of augmented reality textbooks, courtesy of publisher Tokyo Shoseki, for the New Horizon class. As a smartphone app, it takes advantage of built-in cameras to present animated character conversations when aligned with certain sections of pages.
5. Second Life:Because it involves a Stephenson-esque reality where anything can happen, Second Life proved an incredibly valuable tool for educators hoping to reach a broad audience — or offering even more ways to learn for their own bands of students. Listing the numerous ways in which they utilized the virtual world means an entire article on its own, but a quick search will dredge up the online classes, demonstrations, discussions, lectures, presentations, debates, and other educational benefits.

Choose three of the above websites from above and paste their featured links here:
1.Sky Map and Star Walk
2.PhysicsPlayground
3.Second Life

Of the three websites that you choose to feature, which of them do you find the most beneficial to learning in the classroom with AR? Explain why you choose the site you did! (This is a two step question, answer both parts!)

PhysicsPlayground is the one that seems the most useful in the classroom because it seems the most helpful for people to learn science.


Take a screenshot of the AR site that you liked the most and paste it here (ask a classmate if you do not remember how to do this - NETWORK!). Save the picture to your H-drive first, the use the BLOG tool PICTURE to post it.

The last think you'll need to do today is check out this link: HOW MUCH WOOD WOULD A WOOD CHUCK CHUCK IF..

Just kidding. After you've looked at the list of TED TALK lectures, list five that you would be interested in viewing in an upcoming class video/discussion forum.
1.Benjamin Zander on music and passion: If you want your kids to fall in love with music, Ben Zander is your best friend. In this video, the very funny and energetic speaker and conductor of the Boston Philharmonic discusses classical music and why everyone should love it as much as he does
2Arthur Benjamin does “Mathemagic”: Arthur Benjamin is a human computing machine. In this talk, Benjamin displays his amazing ability to calculate figures in his head, then he tells you how he does it. This is about as entertaining as math gets.
3.Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life?: If you’ve got a little stargazer or future astronaut at home, this micro-talk by planetary scientist Carolyn Porco would be a fun one to show them. Porco discusses the possibility of life on one of Saturn’s moons in light of exciting new findings
4.David Gallo shows underwater astonishments: If you’ve got the next Jacques Cousteau at home, turn off SpongeBob and turn on David Gallo. Here, the pioneering oceanographer brings you some magnificent footage of life under the sea and tells you 97% of the world’s oceans have yet to be plumbed
5.Edith Widder: The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence: Once David Gallo whets your child’s appetite for all things aquatic, show them this slightly longer talk by biologist Edith Widder. She delves into the strange, beautiful world of bioluminescent sea animals and shows some examples

Blog 9: Symbolism and Imagery

Define SYMBOLISM

the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
LINK:


http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/symbolism?s=t



DEFINE IMAGERY


the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively



LINK:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/imagery

Discuss three different uses of symbolism and imagery in the book, "Fahrenheit 451." Post a picture of this image with each description.

Fire

Fire is an interesting symbol in Fahrenheit 451 because it symbolizes two different things. Through the firemen, who burn books and wear the number “451” on their helmets, fire symbolizes destruction. (451°F is the temperature at which paper and books burn.) Yet at the same time, Clarisse reminds Montag of candle-light, and so fire, when controlled, symbolizes the flickering of self-awareness and knowledge.

The Phoenix

The mythologies of many Mediterranean cultures include the story of the phoenix, a bird that is consumed by flames but then rises from the ashes. The phoenix is a symbol for renewal, for life that follows death in a cleansing fire. After the city is reduced to ashes by bombers in Fahrenheit 451, Granger makes a direct comparison between human beings and the story of the phoenix. Both destroy themselves in fire. Both start again amid the ashes. If people keep books—which preserve the past and allow people to learn the lessons of prior tragedies—Granger hopes that humanity will remember the suffering caused by destruction, and will avoid destroying itself in the future.

The Hearth and the Salamander

“The Hearth and the Salamander” is the title of the first section of Fahrenheit 451. Both hearths and salamanders are associated with fire. Hearths (fireplaces) are traditionally the center of the home and the source of warmth. The firemen wear salamander imagery on their uniforms and call their fire truck a “salamander” because salamanders were once believed to live in fire without being consumed by it.







LINK:


http://www.litcharts.com/lit/fahrenheit451/symbols

Civil Liberties

Civil Liberties


 1. Copy and paste a picture of the first amendment.

  noun

an amendment to the U.S. constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/First+Amendment

 

2. What source did you use for the above?
http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/firstamendment/resources.html

3. Define civil liberties.

noun 

1.

the freedom of a citizen to exercise customary rights, as of speech or assembly, without unwarranted or arbitrary interference by the government.

2. such a right as guaranteed by the laws of a country, as in the U.S. by the Bill of Rights.

4. What source did you use for the above?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/civil+liberties?s=t

5. When do you feel civil liberties are infringed upon? Can you give another example of "fringing" on your civil liberties?

I feel like civil liberties are infringed upon when we are not allowed to say something, but yet the First Amendment say we have freedom of speech. Another example of finging on civil liberties is not being able to do anything without feeling like someone, somewhere, is watching you.

Paste a picture to add to your answer.

Pixel Art

9/11 Remembering

 

            I was only 1 on 9/11. I don't remeber much. I think I can remember my mom watching it on television, but it might just be in one of the years after  rember that. I know about it from my teachers over the years talk about it in class. Also, I have watched shows on the TV about that day. Someday, I want to visit the memorial that they built. My family has told me that they were watched it when they were at work, and they were in shock at what happened. They also want to go and see the memorial. I hope everyone goes to see it someday.

Civil Liberties

September 12, 2012

Civil Liberties vs. Airport Scanners

Prior 9/11                                                                                                   

*Rules not as strict.                                                                

*Easier and quicker getting on to airplanes.

*Kitchen utensils not a big deal.

*We didn’t have full body scanners.

*Safer to fly.                                                                                    Post 9/11

*There is a list of what you can and cannot pack.

*Body scanners.

*Strip searchers.

*Takes forever to get through security.

*Lots of delays because of security.