I originally wanted to do this right… video’s, voice over, music, i wanted to do it all! Then i realized that my ambition is a lot higher than the amount of free time I ever have, so here is the mastercard commercial I made movie maker style!
I got all of my pictures from Flickr Creative Commons which is like my new favorite site, it shows the amazing pictures people have!
So I have come to realize that at university you meet a lot of people… no I am not stupid I already knew that, but what i didn’t realize was how much you start to rely on those people! In every single class i have gotten the phone number or email of someone, not just to like make friends and talk, but to help with school! In high school i was so used to having time to work on projects during class, or assignments, with my friends and partners without always having to meet outside of school. Here all of my classes are just one long lecture, and any homework I have i have to contact friends after class! Not even kidding every week i am on msn with alanna figuring out my math homework! This week i had to text my bio partners about my labs, and will have to email them a lot to finish our group project!
I have never used my school email account until this year. Every single year I have had one I had maybe five emails all together, and I have used mine hundreds of times more than that this year in just a couple months! I can email my profs, classmates, and it is the email I have used for ECMP 355.
I have not been much of a group learner, so working with other students has been different for me this year, and even more so different because I do it mainly through texts and email!
I watchedSugata Mitra: Can Kids Teach Themselves
This was the man who set up the hole in the wall experiment, and it was really cool how he tested his ideas. Its about how children can learn on their own, and especially in groups. When they are taching themself they work in groups, and cooperatively they come to a final understanding together. Mitra put a computer just in a hole in a wall in india and within 8 minutes a thirteen year old boy had taught himself how to browse and use the internet, and at the end of the day something like 70 children had an understanding of how to use the computer. He also said that it isnt just a hands on thing, but more of a cooperative thing, because there is only one child who can be working the computer, but three or four kids would be around them and learn exactly the same amounts and the same concepts, and then you could have a whole group of kids around just watching and they could learn the same things. Once one kid would learn it they would continue to teach it to another, so it was a kind of chain effect.
Mitra did this experiment over lots of different places, and in one of them he left the computer for three months and the students had taught themself somewhere around two hundred english words in a place where no one spoke english. They were using the words in the right context in everyday language and told him that he needed to get them a faster processor and better mouse.
It was a really cool video because it makes you think about the way different students learn and made me think of how i can have different approaches in a classroom so that students can all learn in their own way. On the comments someone asked if the same thing would work for adults, and I wonder the same question, so that would be something cool to test out.
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