Creative Commons

First of all about this video, I thought the animation and graphics were pretty cool. Also, I didn't really know that it was that easy to get a copyright on things. As an educator, I think that this movement opens up more ways to be creative. Some of my ideas or any other teachers ideas can be copyrighted and then if published they can be reused by other educators. Like in the video, it talked about a teacher, a writer, and an artist. Any of these professions who produce certain work and it is copyrighted and sent out there for everybody to use makes a difference in the world. Sharing your ideas gives other people insights, even if they are not in the same profession, your ideas can open up new ideas for other people.

People build and use critical thinking based off works that are published. It opens up new doors. Without people sharing their ideas in books and other published work, students wouldn't be able to learn from other people's experiences and so forth. I think it is great that in this generation, people are free to express themselves more and there are more and more resources out there for people to use.

Mr. Winkle Wakes

Mr. Winkle Wakes was not at all what I expected when I saw that it was something we could post a blog about. I was expecting it to be a short, cartoon-ish video. My opinion about this video is that yes, over 100 years, everything has changed. The cities are built up, technology has come long, long way. If I woke up after 100 years from today, I don't know what I would awake to. There would probably be people flying in airplanes like it's nothing. A computer would probably be the size of an iPod, which it almost is considering our cell phones can almost do it all.

The one thing that I thought was cool was that it showed how school and learning still has the same core meaning. We go to school to learn and explore. No matter how much technology will interfere with how we teach, we still are teaching the same values and concepts that you will always learn throughout life and society, not matter how many years go by. We may change HOW we teach, but we won't necessarily change the meaning. Yes, things will be added to what we teach because the world is constantly changing, but the meaning of learning will never change.