Everything is a Remix

Everyone who has ever become famous from something has been through a remix.  People build on each others' ideas.  It takes more than one person to invent.  Xerox created the first computer, but Mac released the second- Mac was the remix!  Even the computer that I am using right now is a remix.  It took a team of people to create these computers. It starts with an idea, but there must be a brainstorm to grow that idea into a product. The remix process is a three step process- Copy, transform, and combine.  It's all a form of plagiarizing and citing. Creativity is at the heart of everything people do, write, and make.

Boys/Girls

This video discusses the way to keep boys engaged in learning through gaming.  Three reasons that boys have started becoming disengaged in learning are the following:

1- Zero tolerance with any sort of violence.
2- There are fewer male teachers.  Only 7% of teachers are men. It sends the message that school is for girls.
3- Kindergarten type 2nd grade

  Boys get in more trouble than girls do, for the most part, because of zero tolerance rules.  When little boys talk about tornadoes coming through and creating disaster, people assume that there is something extremely wrong with them. Curriculum needs to be aimed more at boys.  So much of the curriculum is just gender neutral and to get boys to fully connect, it needs to specifically be cut out for the boys.  Everyone's mind is different, and it is very important to make sure that there are different ways to teach different children.