Do Cell Phones Help Communication, Collaboration and Creation In School

I think that cell phones defiantly would help us with bringing technology into our school. We can communicate with our teachers from home and getting assignments from home if your sick. It also helps that a lot of web sites now are making apps for phones so they can use their phones as a computer and you can create pictures, games, and jobs of it. But the downfall to having cell phones in school is trusting the kids to be sure their on task and make sure that their not texting or off subject. They would help big just its hard to keep them on track and know what their doing.

Web Communication

Technology has helped us to communicate better and better over the year starting from Morse code code to the telephone and now computers,web cams and video phone calls. Web sites like Edmodo and Gmail help talk to each other,like a teacher can be at home helping his sick kids and still teach his class at school from his home or grade assignments and send them from email and have video calls to teach or tell someone something.

Woody Norris New Way Of Sound

Woody Norris has invited a new way of expressing sound out into the world, t is call HSS Technology. The It can make a nice and easy way music being expressed, it is being pick up by many consumers and wants to be used lots. It shoots sound out a certain direction instead of sound just going everywhere, like a loud speaker just playing. This will be able to only play if your in the line of the waves, like it can be pointed at you but the guy beside you can't hear it. Sony has tried this before but it did not work because the music gets annoying and the shop owner turns it off so instead you are in a certain section or in the cash register line and you are listening to the music or watching the TV you don't want to watch it no more so you take one step to the right and you don't here it no more.

Siftables

The siftables are a new and fun way of learning, This learning tool could have the biggest impact on learning in a long time. it is little sets of cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. It could be great for babies learning at home to kids in school learning how to spell or even count. It could even replace the pen and paper way just read the text book and then do the question on the siftables. It could change learning and entertainment business as we know it, they could put the siftables as the pieces on a board game. The kids in school would love playing with them because its not boring way of sitting there and writing the answer this is a hands on way of learning your moving your hands and keeping active. You can even mix your own beats and make songs to your choice be moving a blox on, beside, or under another blox. It can change manys different things in life to help people.
To learn more on the siftables or see how they work go to http://sifteo.com/ or watch http://www.ted.com/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html

Sixth Sense Technology

The Sixth Sense Technology is a really neat device it has a web cam, projector, and a mirror. It projects on any surface and it has four colored taps that go on your finger tips that are blue, red, yellow, and green. It is like the mouse on a computer which makes it a easy device to carry around. They want to make it like instead of pulling out your phone and opening a browser it would be right there in the palm in your hand. It also runs through your phone to connect to your internet. It would only cost about $350. It can even give a rating on a book when you pick it up, it will show comments on the book or even when your shopping it can  give the quality of the product  with a traffic light red, yellow, and green .It will truly revolutionized the future to make a chip in your brain.

• http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

what i have learned

I learn that you can show kids these sites and buy search engines that keep it clean and away from bad stuff but in the end it comes down to the parents to talk to the kids about what they should and shouldn't do, it all comes down to showing how your kids use the Internet.

here are some save sites to help!! :P

•  http://www.slideshare.net/schalman/safe-internet-use
•  http://childparenting.about.com/od/
•  http://kidshealth.org/teen/safety/s
•  http://www.mykidsbrowser.com
•  http://www.netnanny.com/
•  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vDQ

World Builder

This video called World Builder was a very sad and sweet video that shows what the future might be like. It shows how a boy friend or a husband is helping his wife or girlfriend through a neurological surgery and is keeping her happy through a depression or through the surgery its self. It is also a very creative video that shows that the future has a lot in store and makes an idea of what our future might turn out like and new ways we can help people. It also makes your imagination flow with ideas of whats to come and what we can try make happen in our world today.