TED+Talk+Reflections

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Sir Ken Robinson's video was very engaging... It made me say wait! I want more... There were so many things that were stated that I just couldn't write down fast enough. The statement that we are trying to teach the future on how we learned in the past. No truer statement has been said. "The current system was designed and conceived for a different age." We still teach children based on the philosophy of the industrial revolution. I never really heard of the concept "factory teaching" but I definitely see the parallels. For us to meet the needs of educating the whole child in today's world, we must adjust to the changing times. Flipping the classroom will make a significant difference in student learning and academic success.

__**E-books and I Live in the Future- Horizon Report**__
E-Books have provided a new channel of learning for education. The students' experiece with digesting information and the teachers' ability to provide instant up-to-date content. The many varieties of ebooks presented in the articles were amazing. It is amazing to see how education is transforming the world or maybe I should say how the world is transforming education. Depending on the preception. Ebooks are small and can go with you many places. The ebooks enable students and teachers to review the learning progress in a different way. They are also great benefits for determining how to personalize learning for students who need more help in specific areas.

The article that really connected with me was the use of ipads in medical schools. Ebooks are beneficial for all educational purposes. However, not all students or patrons have bought into the process. For every positive, there seems to be a negative. While ebooks are useful for updating content, they are not always useful for highlighting and marking text. They are portable and usually less expensive than printed books. One major concern is that everything that's needed for a subject especially in the medical field is not available in the ebook format. While there is some hesitation for the advances of technology, very limited progression would be taken place without the tremendous advances in technology. They will not only improve the delivery of medical care but it will improve our lives.

__**The World is Open- Digital Storytelling**__
Storytelling is a wonderful method for teaching complex and simple concepts. Everyone loves a good story. Storytelling is a simple but powerful method to teaching and learning. Storytelling helps students make sense of their experience by connecting their own culture to their learning. In other words they learn how to own it. Digital storytelling will be another transformer in education. One way that digital storytelling can be used in the high school setting is that it is able to create different kinds of scenarious where students can practice languages, travel in another time and country while being visually stimulated. I see this as an engaging practice and experience for students and teachers. Students will truly love producing and developing stories. I know I did. I believe this will improve the standard of education tremendously.