Spanked Vandy's Blank

Alright, I had a good weekend. The guys went out, fought hard and got a win against Vanderbilt. This makes me especially happy because the coaches really wanted this win so if we would have lost then practice this week would have been heck on wheels! Happy coaches make happy players. The defense played well pitching a shut out and the offense set a school record for the most consecutive games scoring 40 points or more. I have to say that I am proud of the direction that we are going in. We play hard and we stay together and depend on each other. That's probably the sole reason why we have been winning. Our team unity and team trust is so high that it creates this great chemistry and attitude that gives us a certain kind of confidence that we need. PROUD PROUD PROUD

Learning and Leading

1. Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, and Elaboration
2. Fluency and Elaboration probably give me the most trouble. I'm not very good a brainstorming, I am more of a just do kind of person. If i have a paper to write i just sit down and bang it out, I don't realyy brainstorm about what I want to talk about because I write well and my ideas flow well. Elaboration is also hard because it just sounds like extra. I'm a very "to the point" person so its hard for me to ramble about things or add the small minute details.
3. One could use Twitter to post ideas and maybe get feedback from the followers and maybe that would help spark some idea for me to brainstorm about or someone could give me some ideas on how to elaborate on things.
4. The only tool I am familiar with on the list is Twitter and as I said in the previous question one could just use Twitter and its followers to bounce ideas off each other.

Creativity Assignment

For this assignment I really didn't take a nap; it was more like I took a sleep, but when I woke up a spark or creativity led me to rearrange my living room. I have one of those big "L" couches with the different sections that can only go in the corner of you living space, so what I decided to do was take it apart and put the different sections where I wanted them to be. I'm pretty happy with it so far because on part of the couch that has recliners in it that I could never use before are now directly in front of the tv and I can actually recline in them now. Now I just need to vacuum.

Horizon Report Response

The Horizon report response talks about the use of technology for educational purposes in today's society. The people in younger generations are very much a technological based generation. The thought that technology could help students better learn by using things such as internet based learning, apps, and tablets has been widely tested over time and proven to have a positive affect on students learning. As future generations become very involved with all technology at a young age, the use of these items to help intrigued the minds of children and better their learning has become more accepted by educational systems. In the response, the section talks about how online learning and hybrid learning are becoming systems of education used by more and more schools. Teachers use a more challenged based and active learning system by having children use technology that they are accustomed to in their everyday lives such as tablets and smartphones. By using these types of instruments the kids feel more in control of how they learn information. Although some educators and educational systems seem to be more comfortable with the more traditional was of teaching, many others feel this move towards technology based learning will feel the benefits out way the costs greatly. I feel that this is a good concept for learning facilities because as younger generations become more involved with technology from today's society, it only makes sense to conform to the students understanding of technology and use this to the advantage of educators and educational systems.  

Classroom Design

Digital Immigrant

In the world today, society is moving quicker and quicker into a more modern day and age. Being that this change into a technological has been a fast one, our generation has been able to see the start of this new way of life from the beginning. Now, kids as young as 13 years old have already mastered new technologies such as touch screens, smartphones, and wifi, generations that have just a slight difference in age have a much larger gap in the new world of a technological bases.Younger generations have more of an advantage in understanding these items because they are more involved in their everyday lives as young children. I see myself as a digital immigrant because I can remember when kids actually did things such as played outside in their free time rather than tweeting or posting statuses on different types of social networks. As a child a computer was something that only some kids had or you got on during computer class one day a week. Computers now have been made in to all different types from laptops, tablets, and smartphones. technology was something that was few and far between that has now become apart of every aspect of life.

My Learning Story

 I want to tell you about the day that I learned how to make a pb&j. I was in the eighth grade and the entire class had an assignment to write down all the steps to making a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich. After about 10 to 15 minutes the teacher took volunteers to come up and tell her the steps to making the sandwich. everyone had left out minor details that mad making the sandwich impossible. The point of the exercise was to teach us to follow steps correctly, but also that teaching can sometimes be difficult and you should assume that the person doesn't know anything about what you are teaching. That was the day I learned how to make a pb&j.