Lessons Learned

Going through the PDP process, I found myself enjoying the videos I watched and the articles I read. Two of the videos do not work anymore, so I was unable to view them; this concerns me a bit only because I feel as if I am missing information Doc Waters wanted me to know. But I enjoyed the “Millennial Generation” and the “Did You Know” videos. The first was very informative as to the desires of today’s generation (although I couldn’t agree with them on some points), and the later held so much surprising information that I ended up gaping at a few points.

One of the articles refused to come up unless I sign up for a free online subscription to the New York Times, so I did! I’m actually grateful, because I realized after I read the article, how much of an asset it is to have that information on hand every day. I was a little confused by the High Tech Learning site—I looked through every page and while the information was helpful, it was a little too much to take in with everything else I was trying to process. It would make a great separate lesson, having us blog on that site alone, though.

Going back to the videos, I want to bring up how much the “Did You Know” video affected me. Much of that information I did not know. In fact, while I knew that China was expected to become the largest English-speaking country in the world, I did not know how technologically and socially stunted the USA is becoming in comparison to places like China and England. I was also unaware of how vast China is in comparison to us—realizing that all of us in the US pretty much equal their “high IQ” people there, is a humbling thought.