When we look at the past 300 years and realize that LMO began with 1 ad for shorthand and over 200 years, it only had about 5 entries. The first half of the 1900's produced 6, the 40 years after that, began producing with 140 in the count. When we reached the 1990's, we were introduced to the World Wide Web and we lost count, because of the WWW, we have an uncountable number.
That is how much change there has been. To think that from the early 1700's to 1990, there were approximately 151 and in the last 20 years, we can't even count how many. WOW!
There are some things that will never change. They say Death and Taxes. I say Learning should be added to that. Some of us love to learn new things. Some people never stop learning. Those are the ones who stay young. Of course, they could be white haired, in a wheel chair, etc. but they have a zest for learning, so they are still young at heart.
I know some very old people, who lost all desire for learning. Too bad.
One part of my video shows my grandfather at age 19, in a fox hole of sorts, in the Spanish American War in the early 1900's. His whole life was ahead of him. The next picture was of he and my blind grandmother. He loved her and took care of her. He was a sharecropper in SC. He never owned the land he farmed and only got to keep a fraction of what he worked for. But it was his life. He embraced TV. When he was old, he sat in front of it, like it was the old radio. When he was still full of zest, he taught my husband and I to play an old card game and he could take nothing and win every time. And laugh at us for not getting how he did it.
Even as I type this, screens are popping up, and going away, which is part of what is wrong with the computer. I'm sorry this is not a movie. It was a pretty good one, with pictures and my beautiful voice talking for you (it's not beautiful, but I was going to make it pretend to be!)
Anyway, I said in the movie, that I want there to be StarTrek holodecks at each school so we can take kids on adventures to learn better. We learn so much better by doing. In my music room, we do! But can I imagine taking them to the NY Broadway, the Opera House in Sydney? What a great thing that would be. They wouldn't forget that. Even in a holodeck.
My wish for the future of this class is that it would end up being one of the worst classes for a professor to teach. . . . WHY????
Because, with education and technology changing so much, you would constantly have to be changing, updating, putting in new things ALL THE TIME! Wouldn't that be great?
Just imagine. . . How long will it be before Udutu becomes old fashioned? Or at least, how long until they change it around and make it even simpler and easier to use?
I'm not knocking Udutu. . .I'm just saying that technology will be changing so much that Udutu will have to change to. . . only for the better.
I'm excited about education changing. When I went from being a regular music teacher, to being an Orff Certified teacher, it is because I teach using the whole child. We learn by doing. They compose their own music in first grade. Of course, they've been doing that since babies in the crib singing to themselves, but if we don't get them to see how powerful they are already, in composition, they will dry up and think they don't know how.
As a music specialist, my job is to help them to see the potential of what they already have and unleash what they've put on the back burner.
I love teaching and I'm excited about the future.
I'm sorry that my horrible computer has kept me from doing a wonderful presentation.
Please just pretend. I'll add some photos to it. My FAMILY GROWN.
My grandfather. young and old
don't u just love technology? Had there been the kind of technology we have today in Friedrich Nietzsche's day I wonder if he would have really thought, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." Ack.
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