Becky and Teri-Storytelling Presentation

I enjoyed this presentation. Doing the presentation about storytelling by telling a story emphasized the point of how important storytelling is.

Web 2.0 Tool Promo Bubbl.us

This was my promotion for Bubbl.us. This is a lot like Inspiration but with more web capabilities.

Bubblus: Bubbl.us

Conceptual Age-Presentation by Kaye Appleby

The skills that humans can provide that computers cannot: empathy, spirituality, art, mobile sculpture, emotion, compassion, laughter, social dexterity, imagination, joyfulness, humor. Master's of Fine Arts are hotter credentials than MBAs. Only 4 to 10 percent of carreer success is based on IQ. The most significant change of the Conceptual Age might be occurring outside the office--and inside our hearts and souls.

Abundance, Asia, and Automation

Presentation by Brian Mohr. Why Right brains will rule the world. Traditionally prestige and power positions were L-brained. Tests like ACT and SAT tested L-brained activities. This author believes that because the world marketplace is changing that power positions will be held by R-brained. The standard of living have gone up. People are more interested in aesthetic quality. Creativity in marketing will become determined. The standard of living in Asia is improving for many of them. Education has improved. More Asians are remaining in their home country. Many of American jobs are being outsourced to Asian countries. Thirdly, just as the Industrial Revolution changed the skills employers needed, computers will be able to a lot of things that humans now do. Education needs to train people to do things that computers cannot do.

Google

I think off all the things we have covered so far, the options available through Google are the ones I would like to explore the most. I also want to download the new version of SmartBoard and start exploring what is available there.

Kevin Kay's Lecture

One thing that Kevin Kay said that bothered me was that student's don't need to know the state capitals. If it is something the student can Google, they don't need to know it. Throughout the presentation he emphasized the need for critical thinking. How can students do critical thinking without a base of knowledge. If you look at the hierarchy of learning, the basic level is knowledge. Only after that level is reached can a student go on to higher levels. Another question I have, if the student doesn't need to know basic vocabulary because he can Google definitions, what will their reading level be?

Six Word Stories

March to own drummer. Few regrets.