Maslow's Motivational Hierarchy of Needs

                I found Maslow’s pyramid of needs was fairly correct. Basic needs for obvious reasons are the most basic level of our needs, where as contributing to the world is the highest need.  I think that logically this should be the order of our needs however it is not always the case. For example watching extreme home makeover on the home and garden network there are individuals who barely have a suitable home, and yet they have adopted many abused/ disabled children because they believe family, and love can be more important than living conditions.

Extreme Makeover Home Edition Episode 6 - Montgomery Family 

             I hope to be so selfless to give so much of my life for other individuals, even if I may have not reached my own self-actualization.

Video Digital Nation

             I have grown up in the age of technology, we are called the computer generation. I have never been without a television, VCR or some type of gaming system. When I was seven years old I had beaten the game SPYRO on my sega. I find it very funny that students in school that think they are very good at multitasking when they perform even lower than those students that do not multitask. This was due to the fact that their attention spans were lower than students who don’t multitask.

 I also found it shocking that on opposite sides of the world the technology problems are so different. In South Korea they are trying to reduce the amount of time children use on computers by teaching computer etiquette in younger grades. Also they have venues where people can go just to play on the computer, and some people died from excessive gaming. Far away from South Korea in North America they are introducing computers in the classroom to fix troubled students. Also every college is filled with students walking around texting, carrying laptops, and talking on the phone.

I tried being a super multitasked my first year of college, this caused more failures than benefits, and I often left class not knowing what was discussed. I agree that as teachers going into this new age of students we need to prepare ourselves for students with lowered attention spans due to over stimulation from technology. I disagree that laptops should be allowed in the classroom, due to the tendency of young minds to wander in class. Being a college student I have first hand witnessed students surfing the web, and barely paying attention to the teacher. When I hear that those students that multitask are not benefitting from multitasking if confirms my beliefs about not wanting laptops in my classrooms.

Andi Bell

I learned through this video that we have many different neuropath ways to information, and some of those path ways can be destroyed by use of alcohol, or just by not revisiting that pathway for long periods of time. I also learned that by associating words or phrases to a very well known place it can open up more pathways. I think it is amazing that Andi Bell can use this technique to remember multiple decks of cards.

I often have trouble remembering people’s names, often I have to repeat them in my head or write them down and point to where they sit in reference to me. If I attempted to use Andi’s technique I might be able to remember name’s by associating those people to rooms in my house, or places around Red Deer. When I become a teacher I will definitely try to use this to remember student’s names in my class.

I do not think this technique would work in all situations, such as remembering long phrases or terms for a science class.