CEDU 533 WEEK 5 AND 6

Week five's class was spent being with my newborn daughter in the hospital. She's just such a cutie. I found myself reflecting on the future and what kind of a world she'll be growing up in and what sort of student she'll be. Further I ponder a bit of what schools will be like in 5 years when she enters kindergarten and beyond. Hopefully it will be more along the lines that were talking about in our classes and that we wrapped up talking about at the end of the session on week 6. It's all about dynamic learning as opposed to static learning or one way learning from the teacher ot the student. For example Web 2.0 is dynamic and interactive with so many possible applications for a richer education.

Finally the staff at St. Mary's hospital all had an amazing communication system. They would press a button on what was something like a pager on their shirt and say something like "FIND DR. JOHNSON" then an automated voice would say Dr. Jonson is busy or would put you through for a personal conversation with Dr. Jonson as if it were a cell phone call. This seemed to me to be a small step away from the communicators in the TV series Star Trek. Pretty cool.