Most

What a depressing film. It reminds me of something my Mormon friends showed me. They have a very similar film that they show to people at their church. I think what makes the film powerful is that the characters are faced with a completely impossible choice. Choose the life of the kid or the people on the train. It reminds me of Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan where Spock says "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one."

The idea of self sacrifice is pivotal to our human experience. I think that while we are not forced with such difficult decisions daily, we still have to decide what path we will choose in life and whether or not we should sacrifice what is important to us for the good of the whole.

EDUC 514:

Challenges!

The iPad is a completely new frontier. It is interesting that as a kid we always had to take our camcorder with us. However, now we have video with our phones and iPads. It is really a unique and different thing to be able to video each moment. My students know so much and it is incredible that they are experts. The idea of Digital Native is certainly true with these students.

I think that doing the work and being cut loose is not a bad thing. The only difficulty I have had in class has been this blog. For some reason I thought the blog and Sakai were the same thing. So, therefore out of sight out of mind I guess! Otherwise I am fine with being set loose to do my assignments.