Teaching the Facebook Generation

Some teachers believe that teaching the Facebook Generation is tougher than when there was no website. Some teachers think that Facebook is changing that the student generation. They feel that Facebook, Twitter and Myspace are huge distractions that are having a bad result on kids. I know that some students are on Facebook so much more than others. 2 of my friends can's live without going on Facebook 5 times every hour. I myself only go on for 1-2 hours a day. Other people have an obsession with it and can never get enough. They are the ones that are struggling. Teachers need to realize that most kids are not like that and are very responsible with managing their time between school and being social.
There are also reasons that Facebook, Twitter and Myspace should be allowed. They are a great way for students to communicate. If a student is sick or missed class they could go online and be able to talk to other kids in their class to do the work that was missed.

The internet has become such a big part of the kids growing up today. If the internet exists and in someway can help with the education why should we not be allowed to use it?

Grammy Award Show

Sunday night there were the Grammy Award show. Which is something that I have been excited to watch for a while now. I loved to watch the red carpet seeing all the gorgeous dresses. Seeing the dresses is one of the best parts about the Grammy's. The other great part is all the great performances.

My favorite performance this years was the one performed by Jennifer Hudson, Florence Welch (of Florence + the Machine), Yolanda Adams, Martina McBride and Christina Aguilera to honoring the soul legend with a medley of her own songs(Aretha Franklin). Even though I don't know who Aretha is I thought that it was really nice they since it was the first year that she hadn't performed in a really long time. So somehow in the Grammy's she was a part of it. Although I have to say that Lady Gaga's performance was also excellent, it was very weird. Just like she is, strangely weird. She went on the red carpet in an egg/ pod looking thing. Where does she get these ideas? Her song though has now become my favorite song for right now.

The other part that I love about the Grammy's is just watching the red carpet and seeing all of the interviews and the gorgeous dresses. Every year there are new styles and colors. Last years color was purple.I would say that this years color would be more of the pastels, whites, and silvers. There were acutaley lots and lots af sparkly and shinking dresses. No matter what the color was all of the dresses were extremely gorgeous and the designs and styles were so different that they were uncalled for.

In the end it was a greet award show and I loved every second of the performances and outfits!
Now I can't wait till next years Grammy's Award show.

Should There be a Ban on Cell Phones in School?

          In the article called "Cell Phones-Time to Lift the Ban on Mobiles in the School Setting? by Thomas the discussion over if cell phones should be allowed in schools. There are arguments coming from both sides.

Thomas says that "Needless to say, the general consensus regarding cell phones and schools is that the two simply do not mix. However, a new study from across the pond gives strong indication that schools should give greater consideration to putting these handheld mobile devices to work." That is a great statement to say because there are many uses that the phone can have in the education of students. Kids love to play with new technologies and a great way to include them would be to bu using cell phones. Now you can access the internet off of your phone. Why not use the newest and coolest?

        With any good thing there are side affects. With using cell phones in school students might get to distracted. Students might take the priviledge of the phones to far and not be staying on track. Also if you are a teacher and are going to be incorperating cell phones into your class and all of the students except for one have cell phones what are you going to do? Can you still do the lesson or can you not just because of one student?

        I think that students would love to be incorperating these new technologies into their education. I know I would. The risks are something that can be taken. The majority of the students I know would abbide by the rules becvause they know that they are being given a chance and if they mess up then they won't have that privelage anymore.

I just made a new Voki. See it here:

Christina Aguilera singing the National Anthem at the Superbowl

On Sunday, the Superbowl was in Dallas, Texas played between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers. What a great game! Every year my family and I go to a huge party for the game. Usually every one's highlight is an amazing catch or interception, but this year we all couldn't stop talking about how Christina Aguilera messed up singing the National Anthem. Normally at such a big event like the Superbowl all the songs are prerecorded. Now I understand why the songs are prerecorded to decrease the probability of having a mistake happen.

All across the country the top news is about how Christina Aguilera messed up while singing the National Anthem at the Superbowl. Seriously people mistakes happen. Just think that  if you were the one who messed up wouldn't feel really embarrassed about the whole thing in the first place. So what if she forgot a line its better than singing the wrong song. Many many more worse things could have happened. For example the Pittsburg steelers could have won! That would have been a serious problem.

School district turns snow days into 'e-days'

        This year in a school district in Ohio has been having a ridiculous amount of snow days. They had NINE snow days! Because of the fact that they have had so many snow days the school district turns snow days into 'e-days'. They were thinking about how almost every student has a computer the teachers have been teaching their classes over the internet. Students that don't have a computer to use get an extension to get the work when they go back to school.
        I think that this is a great way of getting in those missed days. From my perspective I believe that students would find this fun and entertaining but also a challenge. They would like it because who else do you know gets their class taught to them over the internet. It's just so shocking that that is how far our world has come to. The difficult parts would be that in school the teachers are there to force to to get to class and pay attention but when a student is online they have more distractions and is harder to stay focused. The other difficult part would be that on a snow day the only thing that kids want to do is sleep late.
       I know that I would really enjoy having my classes taught to me over the web. Who doesn't want to not have to wake up crazy early and sit through class after class? I know I don't.