My favorite and most frustrating technological device is my cell phone.  I love my cell phone and my hours are such that I can’t do without it.  Why I love it:1.      I am able to call people any time I have the time.  2.      If there is an emergency I can be reached. Why it frustrates me:1.      When the call gets dropped.2.      It is not a technology I trust because of the dropped calls.  3.      As soon as you buy it, it seems that it is out-of-date.  

To Natalie on Leonardo's Laptop:

I agree with Natalie in that preserving the documents of Leaonardo DaVinci would be easier electronically.  The scientific work of Da Vinci was not well known and therefore no/little efforts were made to preserve it.  However, I feel that important documents such as the works of Da Vinci or even political documents such as the Constitution or the Declaration of Independance are more valuable because they cannot be easily documented.  It is easy to tell which one is the original, which makes it more precious. 

Then Natalie wrote about not sending error messages.  I too am afraid of what information can be gotten from my computer.  I have started trying to send the error report.  However, I am annoyed that I have to take the time to send the error report when it was a glich in their software.  Time seems to be an increasling more precious commodity and 10-15 seconds here and there seems to add up.  It also takes you out of your mindset of what you are working on to send the report. 

On Bink

I feel that Christopher is correct when he wrote about intuition and the dangers of thinking only by intuition.  He gave the Bronx example to clarify his point.  It is okay to use your intuition, however it is important to have background knowledge on the topic in which you are using their intuition.  You need to have understanding on your biases/predjudices so that you can make sure that your decisions have merrit.  As a teacher you need to make decisions rapidly because kids will not wait for you to do research on a topic before you decide what to do.

Leonardo's Laptop-Kevin

When I read about Kevin's experience with the dialogue and debate it seemed like a really good seminar.  I believe that technology has made things more convenient, however some things cannot be done better by technology.  Debating or even discussing things online is much more difficult to do when blogging or even using IM.  A way that technology could have helped him is if he wanted to video or make an audio recording of the semiar to refer back to later. 

The article that I chose that influenced me the most was an article on Multiple Intelligence.  This is a theory propsed by Howard Gardner.  The theory states that IQ measurement does not tell an educator anything or mean anything academically to the child.  The theory of multiple intelligence states that there is more than one tyoe of intelligence.  When first introduced, Dr. Gardner told about seven different tyopes of intelligence.  This has now been expanded to nine.  The intelligences tell an educator how students learn.  This theory has not been received well by many educators because it differs greatly from most other forms of teaching.  It means that there may be tenty different lessons going on in the room at one time.  It might mean a little chaos.  In my research I would like to extend the theory to discover what implications, if any, the new way of teaching would have on children with learning disabilities and children who struggle in school.