Week 4-Video

I think that a lot of the facts in the videos are really interesting. For example, one said "I will read 8 books this year. 2,300 web pages and 1,281 Facebook profiles." Another said she would write 42 pages for class that year and 500 pages of email. I think it's really interesting when you look at how you spend your time. You think you have no time for homework yet on average people spend 2 to 3 hours on the internet each day and a lot of that time is spent on Facebook and Myspace. I think that if we could find a way to get our students to use the internet effectively they could do so much more. If they could focus the time they spend doing pointless things online into something that would teach them something they would learn and relate to class more. I know that when I've been in classes they've taught things that I thought were so boring and had no interest in then later read about them online or watched a video and it held my interest so much more and I remembered more of what I learned from it. It's important to engage students and find a way to relate something to their life and catch their attention so they will want to learn about it instead of just feeling like they have to learn it.