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The central message in this the short film Mr. Dancealot is that just reading from a screen but to make the students get up and try the dance out itself. The author makes this conclusion by at the end having all the students with their notes out for them to take the final but without first hand experience they were doom to fail. I agree with the authors conclusion because not everything can be read off a power point and the students able to understand the subject at which they were being taught. Being just a reader as a teacher is not a successful way to be a teacher or professor.
Robert thinks that teaching is a way to engage the students by using new technology to help understand a lesson. Technology is not a full on teacher and can't provide some simpler answer like a teacher can but technology can be used to help out a teacher or student question.

I. Robert's teaching
A. He says "students can find information anywhere"
B. He states "that they can find information anytime"
C. He states "they could look up whatever information they would like to know more about".
1. from Google, Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, and cell phones
II. Robert ask questions technology can barely help with
A. He asks " who should I vote for?", " where can I get reliable news?", and also "What to do if I have a layover?"
B. Technology can't provide the answers to all these questions but another person like a teacher can show the student how to and also use technology to see how it could help them.
III Robert Uses technology to help
A. Last Robert ask how can it help by using technology.
1. technology can help students anytime, anyplace, or anywhere. A teacher can not do that they can only help when the student wants the help.

It will affect me as a teacher by trying to use new technology that I've never seen a teacher use use it in class to help the students engage in class. by knowing more about technology it can help the students fully understand the lesson.

In "The Networked Student" by Wendy Drexler she is trying to show how a college student ,from the twenty first century, can be in an online course just like EDM310. He can use and gather information from the web, and share it with all his classmates, co-workers, friends, and family.The video shows how he can use the information he got to post it in a public website for anyone to see it. At the end of the video the big question is why he needs the teacher. The teacher is there more for guidance to make sure that if he is confused to give him advice on what she thinks is the best thing for the subject. My reaction to the video was ,as a college student, very questioned why he even thought that he didn't need a teacher. I thought not everyone in his class is going to completly understand everything that is going on in class. I may have had a couple of online classes but I always go out there and find my professor if I had have any questions regarding the work I was doing.

The main point in "Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts" by Vicki Davis is that teachers should not know everything but also want to learn just like the students are. Her argument is very valid I do believe that if you teach something and the child does not fully grasp it they should look it up and if that does not help then ask the teacher for the help. With the children in her class also be teachers can help not only the students in the class but can help the teacher also. Because, a teacher maybe there for the students to learn from her they can also help the teacher learn new things.

I am an undergraduate at the University of South Alabama and after watching "Who's Ahead In The Learning Race" by John Strange the answer to the question who is ahead in the learning race seems really simple. Obviously the Elementary children are ahead of any college student with technology. I do believe that then it would have to be the undergraduates and then the graduates at the university.

In "Flipping the Classroom" children use the computer at their home and watch videos of the teacher teaching the next lesson for the next day. With this new way of teaching the children to pre learn things they can gather new questions before they enter the classroom of what they do not understand so the teacher can help them faster and easier. This way ill make sure that a lot more learning will be done and less time doing the problem and then helping the child out. If the students can understand and do the work correctly it can make for a lot less time on the teacher to teach but help the ones who are confused by this problem.