Blog Assignment 10

In Morgan Bayda’s post An Open Letter to Educator’s, she tells of her experiences as a student. She recounts how that when she was in her education class for computers, they were encouraged to talk to people and to communicate with other students. While she was able to do this in this class, it seemed to her that they were not encouraged to talk to anyone but the professor in her other classes. In my opinion, it is better to talk and communicate with others in the class and even people outside of the class to be able to succeed in classes such as EDM 310. Morgan’s computer class seems to be similar to our EDM 310 class at South Alabama. After watching the video by Dan Brown, I seem to understand why Morgan found the video to be interesting. He surely had an interesting view of education and how it is applied. While I may not agree with him on all that he said, I can see where he is coming from. Information is easier to come by now than it used to be.

Tom Johnson’s post Don’t Let Them Take Pencil’s Home is very entertaining. Most of the arguments seem to make no sense. The argument that says, “I have a journal article about how students who use pencils at home have lower standardized test scores.” This makes no sense in my opinion. How does the fact of students using pencils at home relate to them having lower standardized test scores? For all we know, there could be an alternate reasoning as to why their test scores are lower. Overall, I found this to be an enjoyable article to read.