This video made me think of my past teachers throughout my education. It was made up of a simple uestion. Do you want to teach or be and educator? As I though about my past teachers had a few that educated me and the rest just taught me. They forced material and lessons in your face and didn't care if you learned it or not. Never made it interesting for you in hope that you would enjoy and learn the lesson just put it in you face expected to learn. For the teachers who did educate me I learned a lot more and enjoyed learning. Those teachers and the love of sports is what made me want to be and teacher.
I wanted to be a teacher so that I could use sports to help change kids life like it did mine. I was wild when I was young and in constant trouble. When I started playing sports in middle school I was more involved in that then causing trouble. The coaches I had cared about me and educated me about sports and life. Before the video I just wanted to teach my future students Now after I want to be like my old coaches and educate my future students.
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I read this post and was confused at first then soon found out that he was talking about technology, (which I should have known since this class is all about technology in schools).I couldn't help but to think that the academic specialist was crazy for thinking that test school is all the matter. Yes with news laws test scores do mean a lot more but the students learning should mean a lot more. You could have good test takers that don't learn and thing and horrible test takers that learn everything. I was shocked to see how many people actually thought he was talking about pencil. HElLO PEOPLE, he was using a hidden message. He was talking about not everyone having technology, and not being exposed to it in his school district. How some people think that technology lowers test scores. When really technology educates us more about the world around us, other countries and help generate more creativity. Student need to be introduced to technology more in school,and that is what this post talks about.
Hey! I think you have very good thoughts throughout your blog post. I would suggest proof reading before you post. There are some misspelled words and misused words in your blog post. I also saw a fragment. But I thought you had very good opinions on the assignments. Keep up the great work!
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Hey Alex,
ReplyDeleteGood job. I see some grammatical mistakes in the first part of your post, but I still understand what you are saying. Make sure that you read through your post before you publish it.
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