interactivity 2

 It's hard to replace a classic.


Through the viewing of the video, the technological advancement that most influence the teaching of chemistry was the USSR launching it's first satellite into orbit.  Science classes were championed as ways to catch up to and surpass our rivals. But chemistry itself was still a very young science (and still is if you consider the beginning of modern chemistry to begin with Antoine Lavoisier.).  Even technology available today is somewhat limited in the teaching of chemistry because much of it is dependent on the mathematical skills of the student. 

Interactivity one

           As a teacher is is important to know a student's familiarity with technology and what it entails. Saying someone is good with technology without elaborating on it doesn't say anything. Knowing how a student uses that technology in their everyday life gives an idea of what they would be familiar working with or how to reach a student should a problem arise. Looking at the part of the video concerning the myspace page, I guessing (I never used myspace) that to make that failing card graphic it needed an image editing software like photoshop to create it, or it could have been done through a computer programming language like html. Knowing the specifics like that allow myself as a teacher to predict possible problems that could arise in an assignment if they needed something like Excel spreadsheet or using specific language and phrasing to filter results from a search engine.

        Also knowing what access a student has to various technology is important to know as a teacher in order to limit the number of hurdles a student might encounter in a course. If a student doesn't have easy access to the internet, it would be imposing a hardship on that student to give them an assignment that needs extensive use of it.

Three communicative technologies that have the largest impact on my life.

1^st. Youtube and video sharing. In several of my classes, lectures from other professors or people in the area were an extremely valuable resource for learning the material and applying it. I used youtube extensively throughout my biochemistry course and in my calculus 2 course when learning series. Youtube has made more likely to seek out an answer to a problem on the material by myself before going to see a professor for help.

2^nd. About.com and sites similar in that nature. This is similar to youtube, except often about.com would have problems worked out completely giving the answer. I think this has introduced a bad habit at times where I would be less likely to work through a problem on my own and try to get by through transcribing the work when I'm not feeling up to studying. It's still a good resource if I got stuck, but I felt like depended on it more then should have at times.

3^rd Cellphones and texting. Cellphones haven't had a significant effect on how I learn new information but still have played an important part in my life. I do think that for many cellphones have had a negative effect on how they learn new information because their attention is split between what they are doing and their friend just texted them.

      When comparing to the people in the videos, I don't think many people know just how useful video sharing sites like youtube can be on a subject. I'll use youtube for a lesson like learning the citric acid cycle when they might use it to share a funny video with their friends

      Although not really mentioned by the videos, sites like about.com or cramster are pretty widely known and used by students for problem solving. They are used for the same purpose, and often result in the same issues with people trying to use the same math setup in a problem.

     I haven't really used my cellphone often in learning. I did have a similar experience to one of the girls in the second video since I did use the camera in an anatomy and physiology class when doing a dissection of a cat to help remember the muscle group names.