The Fun They Had - Asimov's Peek At the Future of Education - Classroom 2.02024-03-28T21:41:38Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/the-fun-they-had-asimovs-peek?commentId=649749%3AComment%3A236781&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThe Fun They Had is on a list…tag:www.classroom20.com,2008-12-18:649749:Comment:2367812008-12-18T23:56:15.953ZNancy Boschhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/nbosch
<i>The Fun They Had</i> is on a <a href="http://connections.smsd.org/robots/science%20fiction.htm">list of sci-fi short stories</a> I'm using with my 5th and 6th graders. The kids love the stories and we enjoy talking about what may have seemed far-out in the 50s being common place today.<br />
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FYI--if you ever are looking for the text of a short story online and can't find it there are two things you can do.. Search for the name of the story followed by .txt <b>or</b> c/p a paragraph of the story…
<i>The Fun They Had</i> is on a <a href="http://connections.smsd.org/robots/science%20fiction.htm">list of sci-fi short stories</a> I'm using with my 5th and 6th graders. The kids love the stories and we enjoy talking about what may have seemed far-out in the 50s being common place today.<br />
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FYI--if you ever are looking for the text of a short story online and can't find it there are two things you can do.. Search for the name of the story followed by .txt <b>or</b> c/p a paragraph of the story into the search engine. I was able to find the text to all the stories I wanted even though they remained illusive at first search. I'll have to check out Final…tag:www.classroom20.com,2008-12-18:649749:Comment:2367662008-12-18T22:44:11.761ZPatrick Kutkeyhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/patkut
I'll have to check out Final Cut. Sounds interesting.<br />
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Here's two more books to read on the subject if you haven't already. Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' and Huxley's classic, 'A Brave New World'. I haven't read Fahrenheit 451 yet. It's on my list.<br />
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Thanks for creating such a cool site!
I'll have to check out Final Cut. Sounds interesting.<br />
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Here's two more books to read on the subject if you haven't already. Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' and Huxley's classic, 'A Brave New World'. I haven't read Fahrenheit 451 yet. It's on my list.<br />
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Thanks for creating such a cool site! For me it was 'Mi the barbari…tag:www.classroom20.com,2008-12-17:649749:Comment:2356222008-12-17T04:57:10.573ZVincenthttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Vincent
For me it was 'Mi the barbarian'. I still wonder how it is we have become so civilized so quickly. We were all just beating out a living a few thousand years ago.... and yet Plato, Aristotle... Copernicus etc. etc. achieved so much without being able to google 'platonic vs aristotelian though' or 'mathematical theories'<br />
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The love-hate relationship burns here also. I have 'Audacity of Hope' and 'The Shack' laying to the left of my iMac. Both of them brought profound thoughts in to my milieux…
For me it was 'Mi the barbarian'. I still wonder how it is we have become so civilized so quickly. We were all just beating out a living a few thousand years ago.... and yet Plato, Aristotle... Copernicus etc. etc. achieved so much without being able to google 'platonic vs aristotelian though' or 'mathematical theories'<br />
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The love-hate relationship burns here also. I have 'Audacity of Hope' and 'The Shack' laying to the left of my iMac. Both of them brought profound thoughts in to my milieux today, and there is still something about controlling the word, in a book it is speaking to me.... I don't speak back. Here I speak back. But I throw my words to the ether. Some do it just to see how many will hear it. Some read it for 'variable x, y, z', but I am only concerned with 'c, r, and g' but maybe it is about the hope that a connection will be made. I have made many profitable connections, but I am honestly not interested in the chit chat twitter twatter of the web. It's noise. Human noise....yeah, yeah, someone is gonna end up making money off of it. Just like someone will make money off my trash this week. But we are educators. What are we looking for? What am I looking for? It is amazing that I have time and energy (wife went out with friends tonight and I am enjoying a random spree thru hyperspace) to even do this after leaving heart and soul with 33 5th graders....... When I'm giving my "Web 2.0 I…tag:www.classroom20.com,2008-12-17:649749:Comment:2356032008-12-17T04:22:40.880ZSteve Hargadonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/SteveHargadon
When I'm giving my "Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education" talk, I love showing a slide with the Dick Tracy watch and the Star Trek communicator. Science fiction writers and directors saw something coming, and the cell phone is even more amazing than they predicted.<br />
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I read Fahrenheit 451 this year because I had never read it and because a friend said it was her number one favorite book. It didn't become my number one favorite, but I will say that I thought about it for days afterwards. Like…
When I'm giving my "Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education" talk, I love showing a slide with the Dick Tracy watch and the Star Trek communicator. Science fiction writers and directors saw something coming, and the cell phone is even more amazing than they predicted.<br />
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I read Fahrenheit 451 this year because I had never read it and because a friend said it was her number one favorite book. It didn't become my number one favorite, but I will say that I thought about it for days afterwards. Like Asimov, I think Bradbury captured some of the core issues even though not able to see the twists and turns which inevitably make life so different than previously imagined. The idea that people would just tune out by being entertained makes for a fascinating discussion.<br />
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You can see us doing the same thing today with films like Final Cut. I hadn't even heard of the film, but as a science fiction fan, couldn't resist it when I saw it in the bargain bin at Walmart. It turned out to be the heady kind of stuff I like, even if it wasn't the strongest film overall. But the question of how our lives are changed when our actions are all recorded is most serious and we will be facing challenges of this sort, although they're not likely to be exactly as depicted.<br />
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Fun topic.<br />
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