Student Driven Education video blog

• How does (or does this) video apply to our teaching and learning? I think the teacher cares to a certain point, but she has so many children's papers to correct, parent/student conferences  to go to and to cook for her own kids when she gets home. That she's too tired to think about "What's troubling Bobby?" Maybe they should have open computer rooms during lunch time and after school or even before school for the less-technology students, because then the kids go home and teach their parents. I know the children get excited about learning. My nieces do.
  
• One aspect of the video I found interesting was the "granny cloud".  This uses the broader community as a part of education.  Was their any community involvement in your K-12 education? Do you think the broader community should be involved?  How can/should this happen? I like the granny cloud. I didn't have it growing up in a small city on the east coast and my son didn't have it growing up here. BUT I wish we did. It looks cool and interesting. I think every city, every school, every child and parent should try the granny cloud. I don't know how they would do it, but try it.
  
• Comment on his use of technology and how technology features in your learning and potential future teaching. Ok I really like this guys videos. He's not a TED video, but he's good and has a heavy ' Indian' accent. His technology I thought would be unlearnable for those kids, but they DID IT! wow. I wasn't brought up with computers at all until I went to colleges. Now, if you put a computer in front of kids nowadays they just know it. I like computer and cell phone technology. I'm not the best at it, but i try and I teach myself through practice and trying things. My son was brought up with computers and he's smart at it. He was tested into the gifted classes in the end of his 3rd grade year at school. I think he's like me with technology and even better. He likes technology and he's 15 now.

What creativity means to me.

1. Creativity to me means you can draw a picture that doesn't look like a kid drew it.
2. Creativity is important, because it gets you thinking. I think in kids usually like when they play that they are grown ups, the one pretending to be the dad goes to work and the child pretending to be the mom stays home and watches the baby. I think this is creative.
3. I'm not creative. I wish I was creative. I try to be creative.
4. Creativity can mesh with the Harwood Activity Model for Inquiry, because when you're deciding on your experiment and question you can be creative in your thoughts.
5. In present classmates and future students we should come up with some non-traditional ways of teaching certain classes. And we should let students think for themselves, without getting hurt, of course. We should try teaching for example a science class the traditonal way AND non-traditional way, and watch the results.
6. I know one guy that's 39 and creative. He has knick knacks all over. He has 3 cats and fur all over. He has a flowered hippo print that he framed.

sbg ?'s

well i was going to copy and paste, but i couldn't.  I like AMI it's cool to analyze. I never took a science class, so I've never seen it before. I can identify dependent and independent variables and develop experiments that require controlling variables. I can create analogies between science process and every day  experiences  and find connections across the disciples. I can try and deal with the frustrations of creating/executing a research project  and  develop a positive attitude and be able to clearly communicate with others. I can interpret and manipulate data in a variety of formats, such as technical drawings, graphs, tables, charts, and maps to analyze results and derive and defend conclusions using evidence. I can generate testable questions and design experimental procedures that are reliable, reproducible and executable. I can collect accurate data on the natural world including observations using my senses and numeric data of length, mass and time. I understand the definition of science/theory and I can discuss and provide examples of social, historical, and cultural influences on science and vice versa. I can define law, hypothesis, and experiment and how they relate to each other. ?I know that science involves developing and understanding the world through posing and answering questions. I know that scientific ideas are subject to change yet durable and that science can't provide answers to all questions.  

describing the birthday candle

The 20 discriptions about a birthday candle were boring and then the 20 more discriptions sucked. it didn't prove anything. I think it was a waste of time and stupid. It didn't teach me anything and I think Tuesday is going to be a waste of time too. Just my opinion. Really? Was this science?

science in general.....

I think science is gathering data around us. Maybe the weather around us. The rocks and Earth around us and even the sky (weather) around us. A good example of science is like making biscuits from scratch you need the baking soda or baking powder or they will be flat. A bad instance in science is dissecting animals, I'm not really wanting to see inside a animal. I don't use science in my regular life, except measuring things for supper to prepare a recipe. Baking has to be measured, cooking doesn't.

science class

Hi I'm Laura Prostano. I plan to have fun with these blogs. I hope we have a good fun class.

introduction

Hi I picked this class because I had to have a science class and they're all 4 credits.