The World is Flat

My thoughts on Friedman's global outlook is that the world is connected by the internet which everyone can use. No matter the country, the city, or what service you use. And if you aren't up to date on how to use the internet, you will are going be left behind. An example is Friedman talking about his flight experience with Southwest. He wanted to sit in the front of the plane, which meant you needed an A lettered ticket. Unfortunately he was given a B lettered ticket, not because he was late but because he didn't print his ticket off the internet at 12:01am. Everyone has the option to print their ticket off the internet but if you don't know that its possible, your going to have a B ticket. "You are your own travel agent", he says. So you have to updated on what is new in technology. 
    He talks about education being the future which I think is right. If the whole world is on the same page with technology and products are getting shipped anywhere across the world. Whether its Walmart over sees market or UPS fixing everything. We as people need to know how this works. 

And as people who want to be educators we need to teach this too our young adults. The student that design Mozilla with a person thousands of miles away in a different country is just remarkable. But that time is here, normal people can, make there own blogs, podcast, and video about what ever they want. Education is a powerful tool but only good when it is used to improve our world. Our students and younger people need to know how they can use the internet and how it works with everything around to improve there knowledge. 

Blog #1

       Having the experience coaching at a high school for 6 years is what encouraged me to become a teacher. My reasons for becoming a teacher, some are emotional, so are pride, and some are just the passion for kids I have. Coaching at a high school allowed me give kids my knowledge and they could use it in the everyday life. Students that learn from you give me a feeling of satisfaction, that I did something to improve that students' life. Without me they would know how to swim or shoot right, because I coach high school water polo. Watching a video, where students, a lot like myself are paying so much for school. That find themselves struggling because the education given to them doesn't help them. Fitting into this shift and vision is good for someone like me to be involved in because I was reluctant enough to be on both sides. The side that lived without so much technology and the side that does. I do go to ULV so I do know a thing or two about student loans and debt. Students that want to go to an expensive school, which is basically every school, I can give them different points of view. Of how to get around student loans, scholarships, grants, and working through school. So personally I think I am an asset to students in high school that are going to college, because I care, I want to succeed better than I did, and that what teachers are supposed to do.  
    Looking at A Vision of Students Today,  video, I am upset at how much we put students through for nothing. I personally don't remember half the stuff I studied as a freshman in college. Its not important to me at all. During the video students talked about there computers being more expensive than some people make in a year. Also, that students spend time reading and solving problems that has nothing to do with their lives. We are suffocating our students with knowledge that means nothing. Students stay in class and stare at a board, and does the information go into the students brain you have no idea. It also upsets me that students will have thousands of dollars in debt from college. How are they going to pay for school? They don't know, its not fair. Jobs are being lost everyday, to get a job a BA does nothing for you, a masters degree that cost 20,000 dollars  can cost a life of debt. What also upsets me is students spend more time listening to their I pod or on Facebook, meeting people on date websites, and looking into a computer all day. We as people, people as a society are going to forget to talk. Technology is forcing our students to live a quite life isolated from everything that are live around them. That is what upsets me the most. We need to encourage our students to be open have conversation and not look into a computer every day.
     On the other hand, technology does allow us to teach in easier way. What inspires me about teaching in the future is truthfully, me teaching. That is what makes me inspired that kids that I am going to influence in the future. I do like that technology can be used in classes. Computers, like our class, using Google to show who we are using pictures.