We were asked in class awhile ago if we were naturally monogamous. I feel that we are strongly influenced by our culture and society. We are influenced so strongly that our culture and society seems natural. I know I consider my society and culture natural because I have grown up in the setting it has presented. Thus I feel monogomy is natural to me because I have grown up under that influence. However, if i grew up in a society that practiced polygny and polyandry then I'm sure I would feel that was how I was supposed to naturally act. I dont think we are naturally born with this idea that we are going to be with one person or even many this is something we learn from our external influences, such as, our family society, friends and so on. I think this is how it works in the animal world as well. Most animals live together in a pack and they are to follow and obey the leader. If the leader has sex with many, they will follow suit. Same goes for if they have sex with one the others will follow to stay a member of that pack.
The sesond part of the question asked in class was which is a mor common form of polygymy polygyny or polyandry. The answer is polygyny, the practice of many wives. I believe there is actually a tv show on tlc about it.The following is a link to their disscussion about it.
There are a few video clips and I just find it interesting that it is something they all chose and something they are allright with. I know I wouldnt like it I want to be the only wife to my future husband. However it does not bother me that not everyone practices that.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Chapter 12 - Student Notes
Chapter 12 – Internet Applications in Education
Disadvantage / Disability
Internet helps a lot – helps with kids in disadvantaged situations (ex. Distance learning)
Students can be tutored via Skype
Helps decrease some of the disadvantages
There are so many tools via the internet that can decrease or lessen the disability.
Distance / Personal Appearance / Special Needs
Distance – Skype learning
Personal Appearance matters if you have some type of physical abnormalities – people judge people by how they look. When you are on line (when you can’t see them) you don’t judge by how they look, you judge them by what they say (their brain)
Special Needs – could even be needing chem. 30 and living in a small town without that option – taking the course via distance learning.
Technology has the ability to eradicate (eliminate) disadvantages or disabilities.
Learn – A.A.A Anywhere, Anytime and with Anyone (also Anything)
Tools:
- Skype
- Chat rooms
- Messaging Software
- Blogs
- Texting
- Facetime
- Wiki’s
- Togetherville – Kids Facebook
- Kidblog – Blogs for kids
- Glogster/edu – for kids
*Learn Alberta*
Rule about allowing kids to surf the net.
-You need to do the work in advance and find appropriate websites
Monday, November 29, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Ch. 11 - Student Notes
Ch.11- Learning with Internet Tools
Internet: collection of computers on a worldwide network (a larger scale)
-like train tracks
-like a map
www: rides on top of the internet
-the train (which rides on the tracks)
- Web browser allows you to travel along the internet
-ArpaNet
-military and scientific users
-Gutenberg
-inventor of printing press
-so that Bibles could be mass-produced
- Gutenberg and the internet will have changed human history
-More information available now than ever in human history
Internet Language
- FTP (file transfer protocol)
-transferring files
- HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
-exchanging information
- www.apple.ca is a URL (uniform resource locater)
- apple/index.html= home page
- html (hypertext mark-up language)
- index.htm
-htm (hypertext mark-up)
Is information on the internet reliable?
- Author (reputation, peer review, .gov, .edu, research author)
- Organization
- Cite references
-CRAAP TEST- *see InfoTube on blackboard*
Currency: the timeliness of information
Relevance: the importance of the information for your needs
Authority: the source of information
Accuracy: the reliability and correctness of the information content
Purpose: the reason the information exists
-(Link: website) Google search and all pages that link to this page will be brought up
Ch. 10 - Student Notes
Chapter 10 - Multimedia
Multimedia
- Involves students directly in learning and problem solving
- Constructivist in nature
- Multimedia can integrate all the MI’s
- Multi-sensory experience
Components of MM:
-Text
-Audio
-Graphics
-Video
-Kinesthetic
-Animation
Hypertext
- Where do you see it? The internet!!
- Is a non linear way of representing text and information (prezi= non linear, pwrpoint= linear)
Hypermedia
- Old way of thinking
- Old name for multimedia
- Called this because the way you navigated was through text links
Augmented Reality
- Think of Iron Man helmet
- HUD (head’s up display)- fighter plane, new snowboarding goggles
Virtual Reality
- Uses your two senses, vision and auditory
- Hollograms (youtube video in blog)
Thanks to Ali for these Notes!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways to Cut, Mix, & Mash YouTube Videos
Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways to Cut, Mix, & Mash YouTube Videos: "Three Ways to Cut, Mix, & Mash YouTube Videos"
Monday, November 22, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Chapter 8 Notes
Chapter 8:
Spreadsheets are a combination between a database and a calculator.
Spreadsheet Basics
• Cell
• Active Cell
• Formula Bar and Formulas
• References: Absolute and Relative
• Fill down etc.
• Labels-words in cells
• Values-numbers in cells
Charts and Graphs (P. 244)
Types of Graphs
1. Line-events or trends overtime
2. Column (Bar)-comparing things
3. Pie Chart-part to whole relationships
Parts of a Graph (P. 246)
• Title
• Date
• X and Y axis
• Scale
• Tick
• Labels
• Legend
Spreadsheets are a combination between a database and a calculator.
Spreadsheet Basics
• Cell
• Active Cell
• Formula Bar and Formulas
• References: Absolute and Relative
• Fill down etc.
• Labels-words in cells
• Values-numbers in cells
Charts and Graphs (P. 244)
Types of Graphs
1. Line-events or trends overtime
2. Column (Bar)-comparing things
3. Pie Chart-part to whole relationships
Parts of a Graph (P. 246)
• Title
• Date
• X and Y axis
• Scale
• Tick
• Labels
• Legend
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Chapter 6 notes
Chapter Six – Graphic Tools
Types of Graphics
Bit-mapped (.bmp)
- low quality
-8-32 colours
-yucky
-not easy to edit
-ex) Paint programs
Vector Graphics
-high quality
-lots of colours
-ex) some clipart (can make larger without bad pixels)
-ex) Adobe Illustrator, C.A.D. Programs
-ex) drawing programs like Corel Draw
Aside: Clipart
-Creativity with kids? None. We should let them create their own art then scan or take a picture
and import the image.
-copyright of images
-Creative Commons
-Creative Commons
File Formats
.bmp - 8-32 colours, low quality
.gif – 256 colours, medium quality, greater for websites
.jpeg - (also .jpg or .jpe) millions of colors, high quality, many pixels, photo quality
Digital Camera
-what’s a good number of megapixels? 4-6, which is about $200
-batteries or not? No, unless a phys ed. teacher and away from electricity for extended periods
of time
-Who is taking the pictures? The kids should! They all know how and enjoy it. It’s a powerful
literacy tool
Design of Instructional Materials
-The graphics should support the important parts
line drawing
-used to make lesson plan templates
-use thick bold lines
-keep front normal and use bold for important points
Friday, October 29, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Chapter 4 Part 1 - Student Notes
Chapter 4 - Legal and Ethical Issues
October 28, 2010
Social Contexts for Computers in Education
All types of people use computers
- Students with special needs
Special Needs “Normal” Gifted
/_______________/______________/
Definition for Special Needs:
o Learning, physical, cognitive, emotional or socially disabled
o Culturally and linguistically challenged
o Talented and Gifted
Code 42 - is severe behaviour problems
Code 80 - is a gifted student
Students with Disabilities
Computers or technology (Assisted of Adaptive Technology) can help meet the needs of these students
- PUF grants - grants to help students get the resources they need to succeed
- IEP/IPP – educational plans
Talented and Gifted
Talented and gifted kids are at as much risk as kids that are learning disabled.
- That they are bored
- They are not challenged
- They are not recognized
Intellectual Property
Copyright = financial interests of the intellectual property owner
Thanks to Oriana for these notes.
October 28, 2010
Social Contexts for Computers in Education
All types of people use computers
- Students with special needs
Special Needs “Normal” Gifted
/_______________/______________/
Definition for Special Needs:
o Learning, physical, cognitive, emotional or socially disabled
o Culturally and linguistically challenged
o Talented and Gifted
Code 42 - is severe behaviour problems
Code 80 - is a gifted student
Students with Disabilities
Computers or technology (Assisted of Adaptive Technology) can help meet the needs of these students
- PUF grants - grants to help students get the resources they need to succeed
- IEP/IPP – educational plans
- Plans that set out how a child with special needs will have their curriculum or instruction modified
Talented and Gifted
Talented and gifted kids are at as much risk as kids that are learning disabled.
- That they are bored
- They are not challenged
- They are not recognized
Intellectual Property
- ICT F3 - Students will demonstrate a moral and ethical approach to the use of technology.
- Intellectual Property (IP) - “something conceived in the mind of an individual and made available to other individuals”
- Includes- copyright, trademarks (tm), and patents or trade secrets
- Intangible Assets:
- *music, literary, artistic (copyrights)
- *Words, phrases (trademark)
- *Discoveries, inventions (patents)
Copyright = financial interests of the intellectual property owner
Thanks to Oriana for these notes.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Oct. 19 and 21 - Student Notes
Ch. 3 Notes
- The thing that has changed the most in our classrooms is the where, what, who and the how. (How we teach and learn).
- Where- we can learn anywhere.
- What- Kids get up and active, Technology, Curriculum.
- Who- Diversity of students and teachers, both male and female teachers,
- How-
One of the greatest misconceptions about “computers” is that when they were first introduced people (the world) thought that they would revolutionize the education world. They did not. Why? Knowing how to use it and use effectively, teachers have strong opinions and my not want to change, lack of teacher training, too big to manage (upgrading), too much money.
The book defines information technology as the application of a tool to solve problems related to information.
Tools extend human capability: Hammer, Medical tools (cameras, scalpels, x-ray), Jaws of life (emergency tools).
Tools that extend teach capability: Computers, photo copiers, smart boards, projectors, pens pencils (writing utensils).
Oct 19
Technology is the deliberate ingenious effort to create, select, adapt & apply tools to a task or problem.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” (Arthur C. Clarke)
· 1890- Census machine (computations)
· 1945- E.N.I.A.C. military (30 tons, approx 1000sq ft., $500k, 17 468 vacuum tubes 174 000 watts of heat, artillery system.)
· 1951- Transistor ( smaller vacuum tubes)
· 1969- ARPAnet (first internet, Advanced Research Project Agency, military $ science Cold war, Cuban Missile crisis,
· 1975- Computer kits (build own comp, radio shack sears)
· 1977- Apple, Commodore, radio shack (8 bit) G.U.I.
· 1982- Year of the Computer (MS-Dos)
· 1984- Macintosh (128kb)
· 1990- C.E.R.N (Tim Berners Lee, W.W.W.) M.S release windows 3.0 (icons)
· 1993- Power Book (apple, 7 lbs, 1/7 ft^3, 3bmb ram, 36 mill characters 3000x great than emac, 100000x more reliable)
· 1993- Mosaic (1st web browser)
· 1997- Intel- Pentium Chip 1 ( 1 Trillion calcs per sec, 667 mill calcs in the time it takes a bullet to travel 1 ft )
· 2010- IPhones, Smart Phones
Oct 21
Learners of today: Place/Amount
-Learners of today have access to more info than any previous generation.
-As the access & amount of info increases, the process of learning & teaching must change.
- So how do schools meet the needs of today’s learner?
-problem solving
- search, evaluate, create is the new lexicon of learning. (lol)
Learner of tomorrow:
- Computer is not a tool it’s an appliance.
- Students will carry even more powerful portable comp devices that are dedicated to accessing & sharing info.
- V.R. & A.R. will be the new wave of learning (virtual and augmentive reality).
Monday, October 18, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
How Handwriting Trains the Brain
Check out this article in the Wall Street Journal. I like the quote by the teacher at the end!
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Sec. C. Ch. 1 Pt. 4 - Student Notes
Cognitive Styles
· Deals with how we learn and think (brain)
· Myers Briggs (MBTI)
- it asses cognitive styles
· A.R.C.S – John Keller
- Attention: interesting instruction, N2ame (need, novelty, meaning, emotion) A is silent.
- Relevance: this meets a goal or need
- Confidence: student success
- Satisfaction: what is the payoff?
· Motivation
- Intrinsic: coming from within yourself (internally)
- Extrinsic: coming from an outside source (externally)
Thanks to Riki for these notes!!
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Six Keys To being Excellent at Anything
Here, then, are the six keys to achieving excellence we've found are most effective for our clients:
- Pursue what you love. Passion is an incredible motivator. It fuels focus, resilience, and perseverance.
- Do the hardest work first. We all move instinctively toward pleasure and away from pain. Most great performers, Ericsson and others have found, delay gratification and take on the difficult work of practice in the mornings, before they do anything else. That's when most of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions.
- Practice intensely, without interruption for short periods of no longer than 90 minutes and then take a break. Ninety minutes appears to be the maximum amount of time that we can bring the highest level of focus to any given activity. The evidence is equally strong that great performers practice no more than 4 ½ hours a day.
- Seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses. The simpler and more precise the feedback, the more equipped you are to make adjustments. Too much feedback, too continuously, however, can create cognitive overload, increase anxiety, and interfere with learning.
- Take regular renewal breaks. Relaxing after intense effort not only provides an opportunity to rejuvenate, but also to metabolize and embed learning. It's also during rest that the right hemisphere becomes more dominant, which can lead to creative breakthroughs.
- Ritualize practice. Will and discipline are wildly overrated. As the researcher Roy Baumeisterhas found, none of us have very much of it. The best way to insure you'll take on difficult tasks is to ritualize them — build specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.
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Friday, September 24, 2010
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