Random Thing #5

Here is an amazing video about the changing technology and how it affects us.
This video is by Karl Fisch from Arapahoe High School in Littleton, Colorado and Scott McCleod. Karl is the technology director at his high school as well as a classroom teacher and one who fully embraces constructivism and how technology enables the implementation of this teaching philosophy. Though this is the 2006 version, Karl and Scott updated this presentation in 2008 to reflect new statistics and information.

I am currently in a technology class at school and we have been having an online discussion about this and other articles. One article focused on how we teach to the past. Teachers often do not focus on teaching kids about how to solve problems in the future. How do teachers do that exactly? It is an amazingly huge task. Students need to grasp creative problem solving. Students are capable of so much, I don't ever want to put their capabilities and education in a box.

... to Port Townsend with Kathryn.

So Kathryn and I decided to actually do something for our spring break. We just wanted to get away for awhile, be adventurous, crazy untamed girls... so we went to Port Townsend. It's crazy, trust me. Since I had just gotten my new trusty Subaru we had to test it out. So we strapped the kayaks to the top and headed to the great city of Port Townsend. We went to our neighbors cabin on Discovery Bay. We only had a few things on the agenda, go to the Tyler Street Cafe, buy some books at the used book store, maybe see a movie., and well that was just about it, oh and take the kayaks out. Unfortunately the Tyler Street Cafe is closed for whatever reason the owners decieded to leave and never come back. Weird. So we had to go to the second best cafe in town for breakfast. (I wasn't quite awake.) But the bookstore was pretty neat, bought 3 books for 6 dollars! Woot woot!
We had a nice time driving around and looking at all the pretty houses. And checked out a light museum (there was a name for the lights but I don't remember.) They had a keg light though, funny!
We naturally brought some games, Kathryn won most of them.
We were able to take the kayaks out Saturday despite the misty rain. Good thing we did because it was windy and really rainy later. Sunday was nice though, just windy. We picked up a lot of shells on the beach and at Fort Flagler.
Kathryn had some mad map reading skills.
It was a nice time to relax and just hang out (we watched the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy too.) We wish you could have been there Alison... :(