Ragin’ Kids

Today my lunch time conversation was with a group of four year olds and I have to admit, kids pay waaaay more attention to the things around them than you expect. I had a good ten minute conversation about Spongebob Squarepants, Goosebumps, and then interesting enough, had a good laugh when one of the boys [...]

Who is alive online? Many old people aren’t, for they claim they don’t even know how to use those darn computers, but most people have some existence online. We express ourselves with web pages, and many business owners who advertise will have information leak out onto the web. Speaking of businesses, webpage builders are quite [...]

It seems like everyone in my group wrote about Facebook, so I will too. Facebook has a more organized and systematic way of finding people and avoiding them as well. Before Facebook, Myspace was the king of webpages. Upon getting a Facebook, I was shocked that it researched my entire high school class when I [...]

When I think about literacy, writing and reading skills is what comes to mind. After reading the article on semiotic domains It has come to my attention that images, symbols, graphs, diagrams, artifacts, and many other visual symbols are significant in the literate world. The article focuses on video games. I never thought one could [...]

There is a saying that is generally true, and that is there a nice people and, you know, A-holes everywhere. Some people like to party and meet lots of people, others like to have smaller groups of friends that they do things with, and there is an infinite amount of personality attributes one can have. [...]

      What happens when you mix a two year old and a 3 year old with a 22 year old babysitter at eight in the morning on a Saturday?  I’ll tell you what happens.  Absolute chaos.  I worked in a daycare for over a year and developed many relationships with the parents of the children [...]

            Technology in the advanced spectrum is a realm of mystery as it appears to us, but to others it may seem more of a reality than a figment of their imaginations.  The people who create websites and applications for the computer, the creator of a Personal Computer or a Mac operating system, or Mr. [...]

            After reading the article Semiotic Domains:  Is Playing Video Games a “Waste of Time”, I realized that my prior opinion about video games has altered quite a bit.  I grew up an only child and had to find ways to amuse myself when my friends were not around.  I’ll never forget the Christmas I [...]

So after sitting at work for five hours and going through a series of WHY is this kid not listening, why does that kid listen, why does that kid have to bully EVERYONE, why does this kid have random moments of just screaming his life away, I have decided, its time to figure out what [...]

It isn’t easy being a teacher.  I know this first hand because I was a teacher at a daycare, I’ve been taught by teachers, and I have observed teachers.  Their work is unlike any other work done by a professional.  Teachers are the people who provide countless others with an opportunity to learn and grow.  [...]