Junk food and the Internet, Now I understand McDonald’s

I really agree with Stoll, that restaurants can only provide two of the three things that we want in food: good, cheap, and fast.  If you get good food quick, you have to pay more for it.  If you want good food cheap, you have to make it yourself.  Now I understand why I don’t like McDonald’s food that much anymore.  I have gotten used to the good food of cooking at home and eating out at nice restaurants on the weekends that I don’t like the fast food anymore.  

my point about power point

1st I’d like to state:  How cool a mac aquarium. Love to see a picture of that. (p.177, new uses for your old computer chapter.)

 

Now, I would like to comment on how true it is that a PowerPoint will dehumanize a speech.  I know that when I get a copy of the presentation before hand and the speaker only reads from it without adding anything, I usually tune them out and just read over the handout to see what I am interested in listening to.  I agree that when we teach we need to motivate our audience, connect with emotion, passion, and fire.  ”A sense of warmth, excitement, shared adventure.  A PowerPoint driven meeting delivers chilly, preprogrammed video graphics.”  When I read that,I felt that was what is missing in my teaching.  It has been so disheartening by the number of students that I have that don’t care about school, working, or even moving to get a pencil that I provided, that I forgot why I teach.  I left out the excitement I usually feel when I am teaching the subject that I love.   I know that I have been the worst teacher I have ever been this year because of the lack of planning and the large number of students with no desire to learn what so ever. I have just referred 17 out of the 50 students (in high school) I have for summer school.  This is the first year that I have more than 5 people fail my class.  I’m sure my lack of enthusiasm towards my subject was a cause of some of those failures.  I feel like I am the one to blame, but it is hard to go into a classroom full of students that hate you, hate what you teach, and hate being at school on a daily basis and stay upbeat.  Sorry for the rant, but reading about being excited and putting emotion into my daily routine made me think about how unattached I had become to the students.  I am glad I read the book and hope I can become excited about my subject again.  THanks for listening.        

Stoll, The connected Library

I was reading through this last chapters of the book and feel like I agree more with him now that in the previous chapters.  In this chapter, The connected Library, on page 161 he states the need to keep books in libraries.  I tend to agree with him that books will last longer than computers.  The initial cost of purchasing a book compared to computers is much cheaper and books don’t require upgrades.  Maybe they might need to be rebound but is much less than new software.  

 

I would also like to point out that books can be shared and talked about and bring people together.  You can read a book to your child, but I’m not for sure if it would have the same effect if you read it from a computer.  My point being that I don’t think books are going to become extinct any time soon, but I do believe the was we get them might change a little like the warehouse for older books.