Thursday, February 7, 2013

Special Blog Post #1

WolframAlpha Search:

This search yielded India's Population-1.21 billion, United State's Population-309 million, China's Population-1.35 billion
Numbers added up =318 million, United State's Population-309 million... That's 9 million more English speaking Chinese than the total population of our home country.

2 Other Searches:

What is the population of Australia-21.5 million
What is Canada's population-33.9 million

WolframAlpha:

   WolframAlpha can be very useful for many things. This site is basically a resource similar to Google search. It is very helpful and also shows visuals to help you better understand your overall search.
   This can be used for any class to find info. This can also be used for anything that you want to learn more about. Things that you ask yourself, "I wonder?" This site can answer all of those questions. This is a great educational tool and it also comes as a smart phone app.

Gary Hayes Video:

-I watched the video and used snippet for a screenshot to try all combinations.

Changes... Based on Gary Hayes' Video:

   This video is amazing. This is a must watch. Make sure you try every combination and watch all these stats and money pile up over the days, moths, and years. After experiencing this site and playing with the combinations, it helps you see that as a future educator, I have to understand and buy in to the concept of change.
   I have began to slowly take my mind off of the traditional ways of educating. I understand the traditional ways because I was brought up with traditional teachers that hardly ever stepped out of the box, other than a few. I was taught the burp-back method that Dr. Strange talks about. As I see over and over again these mind-blowing statistics and numbers of technological advances in our society, the more it makes me want to develop some kind of change in curriculum that exposes students at an early age to things they will have to learn in the future to be successful.

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