Monday, March 26, 2007

What do YOU think?

Well, I've been kind of slacking when it comes to my personal blog but oh well, I'll try to make up for it this week. I'm going to start my response paper today I guess, finally watched that epic 2015 movie and was able to take some notes. I'm thinking of doing my group project on Wikipedia, trash or treasure, sounds like a good and interesting topic. I really enjoyed David Warlick's presentation but I guess I'm a little more old fashioned than he is, even though I'm younger. I just don't think computers should be the end all be all of today's educational world. Sure it's exciting and interesting and the resource out there are infinate but there is a down side to children being "online" all the time. Repetative stress injuries, once they happen could bother you for life, the obesity epidemic facing today's youth can't be fixed with computers, children need to spend more time on their physical fitness and overall health. Believe me, I know how hard it is to be young and overweight. It seems like today's educators focus so much on computer technology and so very little time on the general health and well being of their students. I'm not a teacher yet so I don't have the experience of being in front of a class but I do have experience being a student and staring out the window just wishing I could be out there enjoying the sunshine. I know that education is all about funding and what classes should get what money but I don't see the benifit of having a school full of overweight, vitamen D deficient, physically unfit children. Well I know when I'm rambling? What do you girls out there think about the amount of time today's youth spend "online" and what type of limits do you think should be applied?

1 comment:

robyn b. said...

I totally agree with Rosa when she points out all the negative side effects of having our students/chidren on the computer all of the time. We have to decide what's more important to us: have technologically advanced kids who are obese, unhealthy and uncreative or fun, healthy, normal kids free from injury.