My EDM 310 Blog Assignments are Now Complete

I have learned a lot about google. How to use igoogle, google documents, and creating a web page on google. In google documents i learned how to create a spreadsheet and use it to calculate payments and such, to use it as an address book and to do multiplication tables. I enjoyed learning about how to create a web page-it was interesting. I don't feel like I missed out on anything or wanted to learning anything more. It has been very helpful.
Thanks for a very memorable EDM 310 class=+)!

Wikipedia

According to the assigned articles, people cannot honestly use Wikipedia as a source of complete and valid information. Often times the organizations or groups that are being defined on Wikipedia, will make their own editions to the web page. This often allows room for editing out the harsh truth, and making things appear better than they really are in some cases. Today people are able to track back references to find out who has been editing the site. This allows for people to find out who has been editing the site and can understand how it could be edited to make things seem better. In reality the information on Wikipedia should be taken lightly and with caution because it is hard to verify the validity of the information.

Growth vs Fixed

This video is an interview with Carol Dweck, a Professor of Psychology at Stanford. She talks about students and the way they view tasks and the mentalities they have. With a fixed mindset the students try to figure out if doing certain things will make them look smart or not. However, with the growth mindset students think that intelligence is something they can develop throughout their whole life. As they did a study having an 8 week session with half of the students being taught study skills and a growth mindset, with the other half only being taught study skills. The fixed mindset, with only the study skills, plummited while the growth mindset soared. At the end of the semester the teachers could see which students had been taught the growth mindset without knowing which ones were taught that. Then she goes into talking about how applications of the growth mindset have a positive effect in the business world. In our world today you have to believe in growth of skill and you have to be able to change with the world today and continue to develop your mind with new ideas.
As a teacher this is helpful to know how to encourage the students. To make sure we clarify the idea that your brain is like a muscle and you have to use it and work it out for it to get stronger. That students need more than just study skills to succeed in school. They also need some type of more motivational skills.