Special Blog Post #1

Found on Wolfram|Alpha

Number 2)
India’s population 1.21 billion, China’s population 1.35 billion, (speaking English in China 318 million), U.S. population 309 million

Number 3)
I searched for the Earth’s population, which is 6.79 billion, and the English-speaking world is 2.31 billion.

Number 4)
I have personally never used Wolfram|Alpha before, and I had actually never heard of the website. Playing around on the website shows me that you can gather lots of calculations on just about anything you could possibly want to know about. For example, I searched the word apples, and what came up were values relating to its nutritional information. I found that very interesting.

I think it could be used as a great resource for looking up the answer to those types of questions that no one really knows the answer to. We all know that kids are full of questions about everything, and they are not afraid to ask, I think this is just another wonderful tool you can use to fill your students and your own heard with knowledge.

Number 6)
Technology is constantly changing around us, everyday more and more people become involved in using it in some new way. One way to know for sure is to look at how “The Count” that Gary Hayes has taken time to show us. Each seconds there a numerous contacts being made via social media. I always new that these were a huge part of our lives but I didn’t realize quite how much until I did take the time to watch “The Count.”
As humans in general we will be constantly watching the face of these technologies, including social media, change, but as educators we will need to be more than just watching. Keeping up with the times becomes more and more important because these technologies change the way we approach are everyday lives. We will need to be able to use new technology so that we are able to teach our students how to be efficient in the use of them. We should never forget as educator that just because we are the “teacher,” it doesn’t mean we can’t learn something new.