Futuring

-1st project The value of this project is that it’s so concrete and yet hits many areas of education: public speaking, art, technology, writing, etc. That is what I see as the goal of education, integrating all the various areas of learning into single projects, units, and/or lessons. The student not only performed the story but will be able to keep the performance in a concrete document.

-2nd project This video had the same values, although the music was scary and it gave a negative depiction of school to the students. I understand if that’s how the students view education, but that’s scary in itself. The idea that they already knew about testing and it seemed to already be draining them. This video says a lot about our education system and how “not fun” and over-demanding it is. It’d be one thing if students were learning all sorts of beneficial information, but they’re not in the true sense of “learning” or at least not retaining the information they learn. The only knowledge I’ve retained was information that I truly wanted to have. These students don’t seem to see the benefits of all the years of school or maybe I misunderstood them. As an assignment, it works great just like the first document we watched.

-The third video was very interesting and helped me understand what futuring is, I think and hope.