"Wanna Work Together?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3rksT1q4eg

Teachers have been sharing ideas, materials, lessons, songs, etc. for many years. However, it has not been until very recently that teachers have been usuing the internet to spread their good ideas. TeachersPayTeachers is a great example of this type of system. Once you create an account, you can search lessons and activities that other teachers have posted online. The people who post original ideas benefit from getting paid to make and post lessons, and teachers benefit by gaining access to a plethora of teaching materials.

The video describes an organization called Creative Commons that allows people to put a license on something they have created so it can be shared online without credit being stolen. Such as with people who post things on TeachersPayTeachers, people want their work credited to them. As a future educator, I have already benefitted greatly from this and other similiar sharing websites.

Mr. Winkle Wakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm1sCsl2MQY

"Mr. Winkle Wakes" is a funny video in which the man wakes from a one-hundred year sleep to find that almost everything has changed in the world... except the way the public school system teaches our children. For the most part I agree with the creator's intent with this video. It is true that a hundred years ago classrooms were set up very similiarly to what you see today. Students sat in desks while using pencil and paper to write what the teacher was saying. They would take exams over the material learned and move onward to the next subject. The only main difference is that schools are much bigger and are seperated into individual grade levels. 

However, I do disagree with the insinuation that students don't use computers like they should. In every classroom I was ever in (not including pre-k and kinder) I had access to computers. Often we would take AR tests, play educational games, and many other things. In fact, the very place I learned how to use a computer was in elementary school. I don't believe computers are the answer to everything, either. Teachers have just recently begun changing the way they teach. Now, it is very common to see small group and individual work in additional to whole-class lectures. Of course, technology is an excellent resource and we should take advantage of it when possible, but changing how one teaches so that all children have opportunity to learn is what seperates us from the past one-hundred years.