Additional Assignment #2

1. Yes, I feel that if someone is motivated enough they can teach themselves or search for information so that they can learn.
2. Yes, I do not feel that age has anything to do with if one is motivated or not. For example, in the video the children not only taught themselves how to use the computer, but within two weeks they were playing a game on disney.com.
3.  I feel that kids can learn in any sort of conditions.  You just have to grab their attention and spark their interest for them to be teachable by someone.  This also holds true for themselves, they just need to become interested.
4.  Computers can be a great teaching tool for teaching as we have seen.  The internet opens up so many doors for its users.  If a question comes about all that has to be done is google search and the answer will be found as well as new question yet to be answered.
5. Motivation is how our knowledge expands.  Without having motivation we don't learn anything and we have no desire to expand our minds.  We must have desire to do something and learn all we can about it so we thus are motivated to learn.  The two really go hand in hand.
6.  By being presented with a problem the student then becomes motivated to answer that question.  They then take the question and research it through google.  Like I said before this not only may answer the quesiton, but also creates many more questions that students wish to answer.  Simply the question opens up the mind of the student by using technology to find answers and more information.
7.  Like I said before, to motivate someone to learn you must find something that sparks their interest.  One student found interest in the Hindu religion and created a report on it.  As long as they are interested the students will find new things to learn.
8.  I am motivated to learn by not being good at something.  If I struggle to understand something I find myself motivated to find out more and grasp whatever the topic is.  I also am motivated when something that I already know a fair amount about or find myself interested in has changed or been updated or has somehow reached the news (such as sports).
9.  These people can learn, but it is much more difficult and they will learn tremendously less than students that do want to learn.  These students may have difficulty learning because they could have disorders, but many times they have found nothing that sparks their interest and thus do not want to learn.
10.  Everyone teaches themselves in some form or fashion.  I teach myself how to play selections of trumpet concertos or how to attach files to an email.  We teach ourselves something new everyday in many various ways.  We may not realize it, but our inner teacher comes out to teach ourselves something daily.
11.  Teachers play a major role in my learning.  Without teachers to teach us new things and to expand our minds and introduce us to many different things we would not find near as many things that sparked our interest and motivate us to learn more.
12.  Technology cannot replace the teacher, but technology can work with the teacher in educating the students.
13.  What about American children?  If the same studies documented in the video were done in the U.S. would the same results be concluded or would there be drastic differences?  I say this because we have technology around us compared to children of India that do not.