Week 5 Post Build a School in the Cloud

I chose to watch the video on Sugata Mitra and his idea of Building a School in the Cloud.
First I was intrigued buy the title and then once Sugata started talking I started to think more about what exactly was saying. He used a controlled classroom in a well influenced school in India. He then used other villages that were miles away as his experiment on how children learn from the technology that is put in front of them. His model was quite impressive with how the students are learning and how quickly they were learning. But he goes on to say that schools are becoming obsolete, meaning that they are structured well but with having technology changing ever so quickly the schools are not going as fast. So Sugata's idea is, potentially, not to have kids go to school but use a database such as the cloud to teach students. Students would be able to look at material over and over again to make sure that they understand the concepts that are being taught. This is the way of the future and maybe schools will adopt this idea. As of now many different Schools from elementary to high school are switching their systems to having a more technological part being taught in the classroom. Students are able to look back at lessons and homework assignments for understanding. We have seen it in our own class, that is where the flipped classroom came from. I have already seen this cloud format being used in my own life in college, it also started just before I left for college my senior high school. Students were able to communicate with each other via the Internet, an ad on two projects even though they were miles away. I found it very beneficial to my learning style and I think my friends like the idea as well.
-Landon

Applying Fair Use to New Technologies, this was an interesting article to look over for this week. I was a little irritated while reading because of the requirements and guidelines that teachers have to look over and make sure they do not break to use they material that multimedia companies make. Applying Fair Use to New Technologies, this was an interesting article to look over for this week. I was a little irritated while reading because of the requirements and guidelines that teachers have to look over and make sure they do not break to use they material that multimedia companies make. Some of the guidelines are not allowing the teacher to use more than this amount or you can use this or that. I believe that if a teacher is using it to educate the students why not allow them to use the material. I do understand that you do need to give credit where it is needed but some of the companies are creating these projects to sell them to the school and make a profit, not to necessarily benefit the children. 

As I said before I do believe in giving credit where it is needed. But what I do not get is that many of the teachers no have to create something completely from scratch and that is hard to do. If you bounce an idea off of something else then it is plagiarizing. The school system wants the teachers to shake things up so that kids are learning new and interesting ideas but we can’t give the new teachers credit because someone has already created it. I think that the companies that are creating the software and multimedia projects are under the impression that they are doing it for the improvement of the students when in reality they are making every thing about money. Many of the companies that supply project or software to school systems are making a ton of money. I think that the teachers should be allowed to use the products and tweak it a little to put their own little spin on it and obviously credit the makers for helping with the ideas. 

-Landon 

I read the science of storytelling article that was in our resources and I found it very interesting of the concepts that were presented. Reading over everything and the science behind the art of storytelling what is interesting to me because in everyday conversation we are just telling stories. It did say that 65% of our communication is gossip and storytelling. If you look at gossip itself, you are sharing your story about a feeling or information that you heard. It also to keep roach that if you listen to a presentation and and you look at bullet points, it activates a certain part of your brain that we would call the boring area. Once you start telling the story presentation you activate sensory modes that will make you remember the presentation more than just a bullet point presentation. I can relate to this style of presenting because I would find a story told presentation more interesting and the other one. I would also remember the way as story was told any information inside this story, instead of facts just given to me. 

Story telling has been around for many centuries and it will not go anywhere fast. i think that people tell stories to get away from the harsh realities of life. Take for example books or movies. How much is spent on entertainment each year because people want to escape the reality that can be boring just like a bullet point presentation. Individuals will find an escape that is filled with joy, laughter, despair, grief. tragedy, complication, and many more emotions to keep the brain juices flowing. The creativity aspect of your brain is where storytelling comes form and the imagination of a person shines through story telling. As I said before even gossip is a form of story telling. I am sure any one can think of a friend or relative that likes to exaggerate some details of information that they have received to enhance the story.

-Landon