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Wednesday
'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' C Clarke
As I return from a hard week of placement I would like to enlighten you on the technology that is used in our primary schools today. When I was a young lad attending my primary school in the late 90’s early 2000’s there was very little in the way of technology being used daily, one computer room for the whole school, which we used ones a week. There would be two computers to one classroom which the teacher used one, plus everything was massive all the computer screens had big bums and the towers were real towers. There would be an interactive whiteboard in each classroom but no one knew how to use it!
In today’s primary schools I was amazed to see two Macs in one classroom which the children were wizards at it. The interactive whiteboards were used by teachers constantly as well as the children participating with the whiteboard. Back in the day we would have overhead projectors to read the words for the songs but they used projectors that were linked to a computer and all the words were neatly written up on Microsoft Word. On average there were 4 computers per a classroom, which the children would constantly take turns on using. But I did see a massive plasma screen television on the wall which was never used in the week I was there. I felt that might of been a waste of £1,000 or maybe they had more technology than they needed.
Evolution!
Following from my last blog we are still trekking through our wik! The group and I have evolved our wiki into a paradise for learners (who wish to explore education 10 years ago). We have recently revamped our wiki with slick videos and fancy pictures! I feel we worked well as a group as we gave each over individual subjects to talk about. We then took total control of our pages and added pictures and videos which we feel fit well into our subject! Overall i am pleased with our wiki and hope for it to grow over the future! If you wish to view our wiki (and please do) click the link the last blog!
Home again!
As we arrive back after a stressful research week, we begin to reflect on the week gone by. But how much does a student really do on a research/reading week? From a personal point of view I tried to attack all my pieces of work, but it’s so tempting to leave it to next week, ‘it won’t take that long do it the night before’. But that can be dangerous, it can put you under a lot of stress and lead to a lack of sleep which will affect you in the day ahead.
For my vis com module we were given a task to create a free wiki on the subject of ‘What was education like 10 years ago’. As a group we decided to write on individual topics. We started the wiki by creating a folder, having a front page then individual pages which you can navigate from the front page. But as it happens so many time when working in a group there was a lack of communication, this ended up in two of us writing on the same topic! But we overcame this by talking/arguing over who was doing what. We overcome it and I’m happily able to say we have a successful wiki! If you wish to view please click the link below.
Our wiki!
For my vis com module we were given a task to create a free wiki on the subject of ‘What was education like 10 years ago’. As a group we decided to write on individual topics. We started the wiki by creating a folder, having a front page then individual pages which you can navigate from the front page. But as it happens so many time when working in a group there was a lack of communication, this ended up in two of us writing on the same topic! But we overcame this by talking/arguing over who was doing what. We overcome it and I’m happily able to say we have a successful wiki! If you wish to view please click the link below.
Our wiki!
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