Hmm… MOO was interesting to say the least! I thought it was ok… not exactly conducive to a coherent class discussion, but fun nevertheless. It was something different. I have mixed feelings about it when it comes to using it in a high school classroom setting. While it encourages the use of technology, it still has a few problems. Take for instance the multi-tasking we discussed. From personal experience, and I am a “grown-up”, I tend to have several windows open at once when I am supposed to be doing homework. Most definitely I have my Facebook open and iTunes. I am capable of multi-tasking pretty well, but in a chat room based discussion, if I had attempted to multi-task I would have been even more lost in all the conversation that I was! I know we weren’t actually taking it seriously, but still, it was hard to keep up. Maybe with some modifications to the program it could possibly work. I am thinking that maybe there could be a program implemented that monitored who got to speak and when – sort of like being able to raise your hand in a real classroom. I also think, like Autumn mentioned, that if there was a way to cut everyone off from speaking while the teacher asked the question – perhaps even giving the students “think time” before they blurt out anything that pops into their heads would be beneficial. It scares me a little to think of all the possibilities that might one day lead to replacing me as a teacher with a computer! All this school just down the drain! Technology is advancing at lightening speed and there are probably a lot of jobs out there that are being replaced with robots… for example car manufactures. Inventing these robots is expensive, but I am sure in the long run it saves the company tons of money on benefits and salary for its employees! Anyway, to wrap this up – MOO was fun, but definitely not something I would want to do everyday! =)
Will that guy teach our future generation???? ^
Will that guy teach our future generation???? ^
Yeah I have a feeling trying to do a MOO in a high school would just be asking to have a horrible class. I mean serioulsy look at how a bunch of "young adults" were acting.. I also multi-task.. im constatnly doing 20 million things at once and if my classroom was in a chat room without the personal communication.. I would be completed distracted with all the other things that are constantly on my mind to do!..
ReplyDeleteI think the moo was.. lets just say differnt and interesting.
what guy teach our future generation??
“I tend to have several windows open at once when I am supposed to be doing homework. Most definitely I have my Facebook open and iTunes.” I don’t really know what it is, but I study better when I have some distractions. I love to listen to music, so it really helps when I can have some playing in the background. I also like to be able to take a break every now and then from whatever I’m working on and just spend five minutes thinking about something else. I wasn’t even multi-tasking during the MOO session and I was still lost about 75% of the time! I think MOO is something that has to be used several times for a person to get used to using it.
ReplyDeleteThat is an interesting thing you point out: doing other things while participating in the MOO. I also tend to have several things going on at one time. I think that if I were in a class with a real MOO that I would be doing all kinds of other things while I was in the MOO, listening to music, checking email, paying bills, etc. I just don't know if it would ever work in out high-speed society. Too many distractions.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the MOO could work out better if there were modifications made to it. It was too confusing to follow, and like you said, it made it too easy to multitask while we were supposed to be participating in the discussion.
ReplyDeleteI agree I think that the moo would not be good for a classroom setting. If the moo focused more on the subject then maybe it could be used for something. I was not there but all the comments that I did here in the classroom were negative. So maybe its best if we leave the Moo alone. lol
ReplyDeleteWhat you said about robots building cars made me think...it's interesting how cars can be built with minimal human contact. You pay about 50 grand Cadillac Escalade, that is nothing more than a fancy Tahoe. Now if you want a custom built hot-rod, it's going to cost you a hell of a lot more and it's going to take a talented team of mechanics, fabricators and artists to pull it off. I guess what I'm getting at is that sure, you can produce a decent product without paying a worker to do it, but you can't produce unique, one-of-a-kind pieces of art. The day people are no longer needed to teach students, is the day I buy a piece of shit Escalade. We don't need mass produced students. What the world needs is bright individuals with their own ideas.
ReplyDeleteI agree about MOO getting out of hand in highschool. I think it is more useful with college students, even though our attention span is probably the same as a high schooler's sometimes. However, in a high school setting, I think that the teacher would lose control of the discussion and class with MOO. It's too hard to monitor students staying on track.
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