Smith Karen Week 1, # 3, Video Project - Alphabet Soup and Connectivity Video

     This is a video that is dealing with my confusion.  Sometimes, as I read and read, I become more confused before I straighten it all out in my mind.  I am excited to learn all of this.  I fear I've let my latest computer problems become part of my brain spinning around.  I must settle down and begin making sense of the difference in all the management systems.
     It was said that we could be come experts in this, baby experts, but I like that.  I know that learning systems and organization is such a big part of what is happening in education and if I want to be a part of this, not a straggler at the end, but a leader in my school and when I'm teaching workshops in the state and at national conferences, I must be aware of the best ways to make our students be the learners they should be.
      It is not enough to say, "Well, I taught it.  If they don't want to learn it, it's not my fault."  I believe it is.  We need to dangle the right carrot in front of them to make them want to learn it."  When going into third grade, one doesn't understand why learning cursive AND multiplication tables is necessary.  One could think that just adding it all up was just fine.  .   .   Until one could know that 7 x 8 was 56 without standing around, adding the number 7 to the number 7 a total of 8 times.  So, learning is the same way.  Let's find out the best way to learn this and be better teachers.
   Here is my Alphabet Soup Video, an Analogy using Stars and Stripes Forever, by John Phillips Sousa. (Trivia:  My husband's High School's First Band Director was a retired member of Sousa's Band.)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcGwjPPgWxQ