Monday, January 22, 2018

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Today's GrokIt:

Welcome to another semester of GrokIt!

GrokIt originally appeared 7 years ago. While teaching at RHS, I conceived it as the digital equivalent of the Do Now or activator you may be used to other teachers giving to you to start the class.

Interestingly enough, I believe the blog has taken up a much more important role in my classes.

I envision using GrokIt as a hi-tech portal to get you and your energies focused on the class topics of the day by hyperlinking around the net to:

•discover state-of the-art technologies

•bump into some engaging topic

•just enjoy a fun and interesting website.

My hope is to try to kindle a spark of interest in computers and technology.

After all, the World Wide Web and everything in it was created by software developers, computer programmers, web designers, all kinds of techie people of which you are the next generation.

I also want to create a class community, a public forum from which you could express your opinions and see the opinions of others about these topics.

So here's today's GrokIt.

One of my favorite sites is Wired. Check it out @

http://www.wired.com/

Pick one article, read it and leave a comment.

dmac

6 comments:

dmacRHS said...

I read the article: Why Aren’t There More Smart Americans? which stated that the United States is holding itself back in science and technology because there aren't enough 'smart' Americans to research and contribute to the important innovations and giving foreign scientists security clearance is impossible. The author blames the schools saying:

“The ability of our schools to produce American students at a world-class level, that’s an important national challenge.”

Also, he states that:

“But the basic math/science education, the US has got to get better at it, no question about it.”

So our schools are in a sense responsible for preparing our youth for the challenges of becoming involved in the science and technology and not doing an adequate job of it.

What do you think?

jp said...

I watched a video about a laundry folding machine. I liked he product and would enjoy to buy that product. i would love to also get that moving furniture it would make things really easier for people with small apartments.

Anonymous said...

what i found interesting about the article i read was about how far they are into making self driven cars.

Anonymous said...

the article i read was about was the future in how cars are evolving. what they were saying about the car is that they have multiple self driven cars they are making to improve the roads and the way people can drive. they have had conventions and different meeting showing these cars and how they work on the road/

Unknown said...

the article i read was about making settlements in space

Anonymous said...

I read Demacs magazine. Im very intrigued in this electronic universe humans have created, and will continue creating. Times are evolving, and so are people. Technology is made to help us, yet some people use it against us.