I went to the blog, Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer. I read a couple of his blogs on how to perform tasks on different technologies, such as undo typing on an iphone, or create and edit video on imovie. I began to watch a video that was posted on the website called, John Medina's Keynote on Youtube: Brain Rules at the ISTE 2011 conference. He discusses a learning environment that is directly composed to what the brain is made to do. The 12 brain rules for thriving at work, home, and school, as described by John Medina are:

1. Exercise boosts brain power

2. The human brain evolved, too

3. Every brain is wired differently

4. We don't pay attention to boring things

5. Repeat to remember

6. Remember to repeat

7. Sleep well, think well

8. Stressed brains don't learn the same way

9. Stimulate more of the senses

10. Vision trumps all other senses

11. Male and female brains are different

12. We are powerful and natural explorers

I thought these were great rules to keep in mind while teaching young children. Knowing how the brain works is important to creating an environment that supports learning. Another blog I looked back at was, Always Learning by Kim Cofino. Her most recent post discusses how she uses blogs as a global classroom where children create their own blogs to connect with learners around the world. The children use the blogs to share and reflect on their learning. The children share pieces of work that were important to them and assess their learning to meet their goals through the blog. The children used the blog to display their own portfolios with their self-assessments. It sounds like a great way to encourage student involvement, peer assessment, self assessment, and home-school collaboration. The last blog post I read was at, Graham Wegner Open Educator blog. In the post Wegner discusses the issues of privacy online and surveillance offline with the easy access to capture videos with smart phones and quickly posting them online. Being able to do this can often backfire in negative ways. Being able to capture these moments makes people accountable for their actions that they didn't necessarily think they were being monitored doing. It's important to teach children in today's tech world to be safe and make good choices online and offline because you never know what people might decide to put on Youtube or Facebook.