So now my generation is teaching my parent's generation. I have finally taught my mom the wonderful classroom of YouTube. She learned how to knit by having YouTube teach her step by step. So no more boring How-To books to read after renting them from the library. It will only take a few simple clicks before you have the entire world's knowledge under your mouse. Because of collective intelligence, we do not have to travel across the world to find the knowledge that each person possesses. All we do is Google it.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Google, the new classroom
My generation has a very different use of technology then my parent's generation. When I have a question, how does my generation solve it? Do we look it up in a book? Ask an expert? No, we Google it. More practically, we YouTube it. Just recently I learned to solve a Rubik's Cube and I did this through YouTube. When I told my parents my new trick, they were not surprised that I could solve a Rubik's Cube, but that I learned how through You Tube. I do this with most things. When I want to learn new tricks on photoshop, I YouTube it. Also, if I ever have a question in math or biology when I didn't understand the teacher, I will Google it.
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It's so true. And yet were are your links. There are so many relevant things you could link to make this post more in-depth and informative. You should have googled googling!
ReplyDeleteDitto. And here here for progress!
ReplyDeleteThis isn't aimed particularly at Shelby, but to all of us:
With all change comes a price. We decide a change is successful when the new advantages outweigh the loss of what may have been great about the old. Thus, to argue that something new is better we should address the loss of the old, acknowledge its former greatness, then prove what is better in the new.
What was it that made a library so great? (Still does to me even though I love internet search too.)
Simple assumption of newer is better is a very weak point of view.
But here, also, is a great statement from a really ancient geezer (1850s):
"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages." -- Horace Greeley