Sunday, September 10, 2006

Why we Blog

As I asked you in class "How many of you blog?" Most of you put up your hands because of your experience with Mr. Reece last year. Many of you also indicated that it was not you favorite activity during math class. I hope to change that this year. It is important to know that times are changing. The world you know now will be different by the time you enter highschool, and that world will change by the time you are ready to enter Highschool.

K. Fisch a teacher in Colorado created this powerpoint presentation for his students. It demonstrates how the world is changing. It is a remarkable presentation.

Did You Know

In your journals or as a comment I would like you to tell me what you are feeling after this presentation. Mr. Kuropatwa from Danial Mac asked his grade 11 and 12 students these questions:

  • What surprised you the most? Why was it surprising?

  • Did you learn anything? If so, what?

  • As you think about it now, does this change the way you think about school, learning or the purpose of getting an education? Is there anything you want to do differently related to school this year?

  • What Shift is happening?
How would you answer them?


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What surprised you the most? Why was it surprising?
What suprised me the most was all of the information about the super computers in 2013 that will exceed the computation capibility of the Human Brain and in 2023 the $1,000 computer that will exceed the capabilities of the Human Brain.

Did you learn anything? If so, what?
Yes, I did learn a lot from the video. Well actually everything from the video was new to me.

As you think about it now, does this change the way you think about school, learning or the purpose of getting an education?
Yes, it does I mean if you go to school for four years and in your third years the information you learned will be outdated then what would be the point of learning it?

Is there anything you want to do differently related to school this year?
No, not really, nothing besides trying to get first on the honour roll, Since I only got second last year.

What Shift is happening?
The shift that is happening is the shift in technology. I mean there could possible be an extremem job surplus because all of the company owners could replace all of their staff with computers/robots. Also who knows robots could oneday take over the Earth.

Posted by Janna K.

9/11/2006 8:58 PM
Mr. H said...

Thanks for the great comments.

9/22/2006 4:40 PM

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