But not as much as you, you see! But I still love technology...always and forever...
Sorry, I had a Napoleon Dynamite moment there....
This assignment I'm working on had us watching some pretty rad videos from when I was three years old. (1987) The video (I found them all here) was about a classroom in the future and a student was home with a broken leg. He was able to be on a video chat with the classroom and was assigned to work with a classmate from home. Later, his classmate video calls him and they show that he is able to research his assignment through voice commands on his computer and get his homework done.
The assignment for my edtech class wants us to highlight the similarities and differences between the technology shown in the video and the technology we have today. I think the filmmakers got a lot of it right. Today, we are able to video chat, or Skype and could probably easily do that if we can't make it to class. iPhones have Siri that lets you control through voice command and she even talks back (Although I've never used Siri), but I don't know of any computer where you can sit in bed and control it with your voice like in the video.
I think in the future, we will be able to easily video chat with our classmates, and young students might be able to take the same online classes together from anywhere in the world. Eventually all students might have interactive desks and the teacher can just download assignments to them there. All classes might be completely paperless one day, too.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Hi!
My name is Nicole, and I already have a couple blogs, but this one is for my Education Technology class that I'm taking at Boise State. I'm 27 years old and I'm married to a great guy with an adorable 5 month old daughter.
I'm attending Boise State University after taking a 5 year hiatus from school. I graduated from Mountain Home High School in 2003. I've been through a few majors, Technology Communication Education (I wanted to teach classes like Video Production) was the major I first started with in 2004. Then I switched to Early Childhood Studies. Around that time, I was working in the hotel business and became an assistant manager. I decided I wanted to get my degree in Hotel Management so I went one more semester in 2006, and then waited a year to start online classes through the Art Institute Online in 2007. This didn't work very well because it got expensive very fast. I decided to take a break, and during that break I spent 5 years working as a night auditor. (I had quit my management job) I realized my new employer (after 5 years) was never going to promote me, and I was going to be stuck. So, I made the decision to return to school.
I'm very excited to be working towards getting my bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Studies, and then moving on to get my master's in Speech Pathology! If I need to, I will take a few years between my bachelor's and master's and work with young children. I will probably work in a preschool or daycare setting because I'm nervous about teaching young kids things I may not understand. I think as I get further in my classes, my anxiety to teach my go away. At least I hope so!
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