After reading "a plague of tics" I was pretty much speechless. I thought the whole story was so interesting in how the author made it feel so real that you were almost inside of his head. He let you get inside of his head as a child with all of those tics and what went on. His brain always telling him to go lick a light switch or say something outloud. That would be aweful going through school all those years and doing those tics; not only were they the same tics from the previous year but they also deveolped into different ones.
It made me made that during the whole time the parents just seemed to ignore his tics. They would get mad at him sometimes but for the most part they turned a cheeck to it. Whenever a teacher would come to the house to talk about his behaviors and tics, his mother would be a charmer and offer them drinks and stories to make the teacher understand that it wasnt his fault and to not hold him late or back at all.
It didnt talk about his parents trying to get him help at all! How could you let your chid go through with all of that without checking with a doctor if there was anything you could do to help him. In college when he started to smoke all of his tics went away! That was crazy to me how something like smoking could subdue all of the tics. It was a weird and crazy ending to a great story. It just bothered me how his parents didnt take him to any doctors or anything to see if they could help him.
Overall a really interesting story that onced I started the first page I couldnt stop. The author did a really detailed job of letting the readers inside of his head as a child that suffered these tics growing up.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Narrowing Argument
1. The question I am trying to find out and pose is if now-a-days we are focusing too much on high-stakes testing scores or if we are not preparing future students enough for the global economy which includes using technology well and always advancing. Government will cut funds to schools that dont test well and will give grants to ones that are doing really well.
2. We need technology in order to improve students scores and have better ways to teach students with disabilities. Also, technology is a key part of classrooms and classroom instruction today. We should be giving the grants to the schools that are not scoring well in order to provide more up to date technology.
3. That from my point of view high-stakes testing are test like the PSSA's, SAT's and GED's. These test are high stakes because there is a lot of value place on this one test. For example, I was 6th in my class and never missed a day in high school and was a striaght A student but I messed up my SAT's a little and Pitt didnt accept me into their school. The issue is that we are cutting the funding to these schools and then eventually closing them and then making them go into a new school. This is making things hard on students and making it difficult to stay current in school and their grades suffer. We need to give funding to schools in need and show them new current methods and technologies to teach their students better. Scores shouldnt have the final say in anything.
4. I still want to find out more stat's about high stakes testing scores and more ways to have a better option to find out what students know than those test. Also, the technologies that are new and up to date that can help students learn information better. Technologies such as: smart boards, projectors, computers,tv and different software that is available. I really want to see the different options to high-stakes testing that are available for students to take.
5. That these schools that are not doing well dont deserve grants and the schools that are doing well should be rewarded and given these grants. Also, that technology will not help these students in any way it all depends on the students and their abilities. High-stakes testing is the best way to get accurate scores of what students have learned and where to be placed.
6. Educational Technology- The development of a Concept
Catching Up or Leading the Way
2. We need technology in order to improve students scores and have better ways to teach students with disabilities. Also, technology is a key part of classrooms and classroom instruction today. We should be giving the grants to the schools that are not scoring well in order to provide more up to date technology.
3. That from my point of view high-stakes testing are test like the PSSA's, SAT's and GED's. These test are high stakes because there is a lot of value place on this one test. For example, I was 6th in my class and never missed a day in high school and was a striaght A student but I messed up my SAT's a little and Pitt didnt accept me into their school. The issue is that we are cutting the funding to these schools and then eventually closing them and then making them go into a new school. This is making things hard on students and making it difficult to stay current in school and their grades suffer. We need to give funding to schools in need and show them new current methods and technologies to teach their students better. Scores shouldnt have the final say in anything.
4. I still want to find out more stat's about high stakes testing scores and more ways to have a better option to find out what students know than those test. Also, the technologies that are new and up to date that can help students learn information better. Technologies such as: smart boards, projectors, computers,tv and different software that is available. I really want to see the different options to high-stakes testing that are available for students to take.
5. That these schools that are not doing well dont deserve grants and the schools that are doing well should be rewarded and given these grants. Also, that technology will not help these students in any way it all depends on the students and their abilities. High-stakes testing is the best way to get accurate scores of what students have learned and where to be placed.
6. Educational Technology- The development of a Concept
Catching Up or Leading the Way
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