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The Future of Work

As I am a non-traditional student, I didn't have the technology that is available to us today. There was no such thing as cellphones, computers, and we most definately did not have the internet. We had electric typewriters and if we were lucky, a word processor. This was the most up to date technology that was available at the time. Without this experience, however, I would not have been prepared to use today's technology. I am very greatful for the teachers who had the knowledge and experience of how to use these machines.

Double Entry Journal #1

Quote: For those two-thirds of grade-school kids, if for no one else, it’s high time we redesigned American education.

Response:
This quote really hits home for me. My eight year old nephew, Bobby, has cerebral palsy and has a
very difficult time writing. He was having problems in his classes with the teacher trying to read his
hand writting and often times he was having to write the assignments several times over. We were
afraid that he was going to be falling behind. As he is a very smart child, we did not want this to
happen. I was discussing this with my sister, who is also a teaching major, and neither of us could
figure out why, with today's technology that he could not be doing his work on a computer. Finally,
my sister and his instructors had decided to try to work on this with my nephew. They started out
with getting him a iPad and at the beginning of this school year the teachers finally got him the apps
needed to access his classwork and homework online. But we are still working with him on
improving his writing skills as we do not want him to be total dependent on a computer.
P.S. He is so good with finding certain things on the internet, if I have a problem I go to him

 

The following video is about a young woman in college with  cerebral palsy  who is studying physics.

Introduction

Hello. My name is Jamie Todd. I am looking forward to teaching your children about history. As this is not a favorite subject for most students to learn, I am going to incorporate and use today's technology to help our students learn to be more involved and interested in history. I find history to be fascinating and would like to make students more interested in learning.