3 Videos: Designing instruction and Integrating technology in instruction.

The first video talks about how creativity should be as essential in education as literacy, but is not being valued in our schools. The speaker mentions that our creativity is fading away as we are becoming adults and “getting educated.” Our education system doesn’t acknowledge our creativity and I do agree that they underestimate the ones that are gifted in the arts. As we grow, we can’t continue to do what we are good at, because we are being forced into our own school system that diminishes our skills and creativity. As a result, art classes are being put at the bottom in every school system around the world. He really emphasizes why creativity is so important in society today and why we should start paying more attention to it because everything is changing, especially technology. Most of the stuff that we are learning in school will probably not be use after we graduate. Because of technology today, it is easier for anyone to get an education and get a degree. It interests me to know that more people are getting a degree than ever before. What will this do to society and to us? I think that creativity will distinguish us from others and we need to realize it to prepare our students for the future. By allowing our students to be creative, a solution can be found to what something can be called “a problem” and will allow them to prepare themselves to succeed in life.

The second video talks about students not being taught what they need to know to prepare them in life because they are reading information that is not relevant to their lives. Most of the stuff that we are learning in school will probably not be use after we graduate. Why are we not doing hands-on and still learning straight from the expensive textbooks we have to buy? Most of our research and reading that we do comes from web pages. We have to pay high cost for tuition and end up in a classroom with a large number of students. It is interesting because the video shows how with technology there is so much we can do and we are creating a schedule that keeps us busy and we don’t have enough time in a day to do it all. With all the technology that we have, and in order for us to accomplish something we have to know how to multi-task. Technology is creating a new era and we are not being taught what we need to know to be ready. What we are using it for is not relevant to what we will need it in the future. We need to implement technology in teaching to allow our students to know how to use this resource for the right reason.


Web 2.0 allows people to stay connected and share information around the world. It allows us to use our creativity to design web pages and add anything like pictures, charts, graphs, etc. It is very easy to explore and hypertext can link everywhere with just one click. The title defines the content to allow the data to be exported. We are the ones to organize and create the data with our ideas. Web 2.0 is linking people, so we are able to put together technology in teaching. We can create a blog and follow a course to stay in touch with everyone in our class. We can view others ideas and creativity and they can view ours.