Web 2 app being used in eductaion??

I have recently come across a WEB 2 app called Wordnik. Wordnik is like an online dictionary/thesaurus. You are able to type a word in the search bar and the programme will search the word and give you a meaning of that word and ways in how you are able to use the word you searched for. For me Wordnik is a fabulous new app that I have grown to love and use quite regular. I used Wordnik for my first essay for university, it helped me gain more knowledge of certain words and allow me to be able to search for more appropriate word to use in my assignment. I think Wordnik is great and would be a very handy tool for children to use in education whether they use it to write stories or essay’s or to just finding out what a word means if they are not sure. There are so many ways in how Wordnik can be used in education today, especially as technology has become such a big part of ways of learning in today’s society. Children in schools could be reading, come across a word and want to find out what that word means they can just go off and do their own research. It is a way of children becoming more independent as they are learning to find things out for themselves rather than relying on a teacher. Homework could be set where the child is doing spellings, sometimes it is easier to spell words if you know what it means as it makes more sense to you. Therefore this app is a great app that should definitely be used in education today as children can become more independent. It’s a great app that would be of such use in schools. I love Wordnik and would really recommend it to schools.

http://www.wordnik.com/ To the left is the link to the app that I have used quite a lot and would really recommend for schools to use.

Ken Robinson Ted Talk

Whilst Studying Educational studies in Swansea Metropolitan, I have come across Ted Talks due to one of our lectures being based upon Ken Robinson. I really enjoyed the talk, and had to write a five hundred word reflection essay based on the talk about school killing creativity. Normally I don’t find talks like this that interesting but from the minute my tutor pressed play I was engaged in the clip, I wanted to find out more, what he had to say about education. My thoughts, when I actually looked back on the video clip in order to gain a little bit more sense in it, to look to see if I had missed an important comment or something, became more familiar to me. I actually felt more switched on as some would say. I actually managed to listen to something, really enjoy the clip and have quite big thoughts on it. I agreed with most that Ken Robinson had to say about education. I have recently watched more clips on education as Ken Robinson has helped inspire that little bit more in education despite my passion to become a teacher since a child. Ken Robinson talked about schools killing creativity and what education is working towards now. He believes that people are being educated to go to university, sit exams and work, there is far less focus on subjects such as art and drama and music now that people are being forced to learn things that they have no interest in what so ever. This proves that, yes, schools are killing creativity. I have recently left school and have gone straight to university and I fully understand what Ken Robinson is saying as I have experienced it. Schools are only focusing on the core subjects such as Maths, English and Science. Before long graduates are not going to be seen as important as what they are today and what they were a few years ago due to so many people going to university now, that holding a degree is not going to be seen as good anymore. I totally agree with these thoughts that Ken Robinson had. Here is a link to the Ken Robinson talk on Ted.

Happy New Year!!

Well Christmas has come and gone! all the stress people go through making sure they have got everything, haven't forgotten something, the huge build up before just for a few presents to be opened and then it's all over for another 365 days? Well it's only five more sleeps 'till New Years Eve. The time of year where all people are friendly wishing each other Happy New Year, giving kisses and shaking hands and wishing for a much happier new year. Well here is a little image to wish you all a very happy and successful New Year.

wikiuser0015

I now have my very on wiki account. The question is...how do i use it? well I am still trying to figure it out, but I am getting there slowly. For my first post on it I was put into a group with a given topic of education in third world countries. we went away studied different countries and decided to do about Afghanistan after many changes. However, we are still to this day undecided on a main country to focus on due to the lack of information there is on third world countries and their education. Well technology in education in third world countries. So I carried on with Afghanistan, there is not a lot I could say about this third world country with technology as basically there is very little technology, to the point that you can say they have none. However, I did hear that the country has sort of skipped a step, they have set up satelites without purchasing the main equiptment such as computers, therefore you can conclude that they are going to miss out on the big computers, with massive monitors and boxes and jump straight to laptops or even tablets. So, What will the future hold for Afghanistan in means of technology? We will just have to wait and see.

Here however is my link to my wiki...Education in Afghanistan