Blog post #10

Adventures in Pencil Integration 

 

    This cartoon is most definitely trying to get the message across that "Ticonderoga" is made better and more expensive.  Therefore, the cartoon is insinuating that it is better to buy a more expensive "P.C." then the paper mate brand.  The cartoon is also insinuating how the Ticonderoga is most definitely the best pencil and the paper mate pencil fall in where ever it can. Since this brand is suppose to be cheaper.  Oh well, I am not sure that more expensive is necessarily better anyway.  For the most part you are just paying for the "Named Brand".  In conclusion, as long as cheaper is working for me in this expensive economy it really does not matter what the  product brand is named or labeled. 

 

Why Were Your Kids Playing Games?  Was about how a teacher and principal had a disagreement between different styles of learning.  The principal and teacher disagreement was between memorizing style of learning and the style of teaching students in a variety ways.  The principal did not like the style of learning by the teacher (playing games) so he denounced his method of teaching.  The teacher would argue his method of teaching by using the different styles of learning through games, visuals, and drawings truly help his students to learn and grasp whatever he was teaching them. Personally, when I was in school I did have a teacher who use to use games as a way for her getting the subject matter across to her students.  I found her class to be more interesting and her diverse style of teaching truly stuck with me. When I become a teacher I plan on utilizing a variety style of teaching also within my classroom.  I do not want to fall into the closed box syndrome like the principal did. Providing diversity teaching is wonderful.  

 

 

Don't Teach Your Kids This Stuff. Please? 

 

    Aims at the pitfalls of using technology.  People should be taught the best way for using technology and the pitfalls would not happen. This is the main reason why parents should utilize the parental control device on their internets.  Children will truly understand the importance of technology if parents do the initial parts of teaching their children appropriately on the usage of the internet service. I think when parents keep their children off of the internet or just the use of technology they are crippling their children in the world of muti media technology.  This could most definitely keep  and limit their children in their education and careers.  Economy is bad enough.  Technology changes everyday.  Therefore, parents and children should  change right along with it. I am a firm believer that technology is most defintley in the present and is needed.  The future of technology is too brilliant for many  to understand, but they still should not  limit their children in their new horizons of learning. In conclusion,  I speak firmly about allowing technology to continually open many doors for us, and embrace this new style of learning.  Let us not cripple our children, but please let us challenge their minds to new horizons.