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Poetry Contest Winners From Oxford Day Academy Write About Learning Using Technology
By Thor, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, Oxford Day Academy
What’s up Oxford Day? Poetry’s up. Make it a habit.
Like my namesake, that Norse god, I know good thunder and lightning when I see it. And our winners of the ACE Poetry Contest know how to wield that poetry hammer and strike with strength. These are amazing winning poems and are focused on learning with technology in a very positive way.
Read ’em now.
1st Place
How Technology Has Improved Learning
By Jay Lauese
New Technology, new ways to learn
Very quick, hard to earn
As fast as a click of a keyboard
As satisfying as plugging in a Wii cord
Do what it takes to succeed
To your mind, the data will feed
Explore to find more
Understand to have an upperhand
As long as we’re alive, we’re gonna thrive
Collecting data to archive
Second Place Winner Jimena Martinez. Congratulations!
2nd Place
Time for some originality me thinks
By Jimena Martinez
Time for some originality me thinks
This copy and paste world of ours
Right click here
Left clicks there
Using more words
Than we can understand
Technology…
You’ve brought us all closer
Then made us more distant
Made us more aware
Made new ways for us to
Share one website
We all know
Tech is a wrech
From pushing buttons
To sending messages
Tech is improving
With its Twist and turns
Tech is actually improving
From reading
Paper to screens
Its where
Teens like to be
Scrolling through pages
As the ages move
There out to prove
Tech is improving learning
Learning is a reward
We are earning
Through computers
From seeing videos
About anything
Learning to read
In the pace of speed
Tech is improving learning
To make this short and simple
And smile if you have dimples
I didn’t write this
I typed this
I used a computer
I was amused when I skimmed
To see that
Tech is improving learning
3rd Place
How has Technology Improved Learning
By Kerry Maay
Technology has impacted many lives today
It’s the most helpful thing to use every day
Thanks to technology, this poem seems so clear and well written
No, it wasn’t handwritten by a pencil
But got typed up and very well printed instead
Thanks to technology,
I used an online dictionary if I needed help with my vocabulary
There wasn’t any need to go out and make my way to the library
I remember way back in elementary,
Pencils and paper were the most important utensils for school
We have the technology now supplies aren’t necessary anymore
If I ever need help with my homework, I don’t need to stress
We got Google, all the help we need is there all addressed
There’s no need to write your teacher a letter
You could quickly just send her a message on Gmail, it makes everything so much better
A computer has way more information than your teacher does
It has everything that you want to learn or have ever discussed
Technology could literally help you with anything and everything
It’s the most helpful thing and don’t forget that it’s also very supporting
See what I mean? Great, hard-hitting poetry.
Thanks to the best Mascots out there – Riley (the King at this), Violet (who wonders from school yard to school yard sometimes) and Chupe and Cronos, a great poetry team.
National Poetry Month has come to an end. How unfortunate, indeed. But keep your hopes up, we’re looking forward to next year’s entries to our contest! I would like to thank all those who participated and congratulate all the winners! Great job!
As we end Poetry Month, I have one last poem in mind that I’d love to share with you all. Here you go:
Don’t pay any mind to the things you can’t do
When all that you can do is right in front of you
Just do what you can and I’ll give you a hand
When no one will, I’ll help you stand
Face your challenges in order to thrive
You’re almost there, you’ve just got to try
In five short weeks, summer will appear
So don’t fret, tenth grade is near
Click Click – Oakland International High School Winning Poets Write Short, Truthful Poems
By Violet, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot,Oakland International High School
Me-ow! Carlos holds his winning poem for all to see. Congratulations Carlos!
Style. Class. Brevity. Truth.
These are descriptors of the winning poems of the ACE Poetry Contest at Oakland International High School. Best poets. Best school. Best Poetry Contest Mascot. (Me.) =^..^=
I’m a cat that sits high up on bookshelves, looking down at poets, students and teachers. Of course I’m going to say that, even though Riley, Thor, Chupe and Cronos are my Mascot Besties. Best all around.
Here are our winning poems and poets. Check ’em out.
1st Place
Carlos, Grade 10
Poison in your home
Throw your phone like a skipping stone watch is sink in quiet water, evict the tutor from your home who poisons son and daughter. The touch and gaze that seek so often. The screens that veil life from us denied to beings, we are but things of the things among us.
2nd Place
Anna, Grade 11
Click – bip – bring – peep
Click… click… I can hear the sound for a whole night.
Bip… Bip and here I got a message. Oh!! Well too bad homework later Click… Click I text all night.
Bring.. Bring.. My alarm said.
Me: Ohh no I am late for school
Peep… peep and here the bus left me.
Ohh well I don’t care anymore.
(what the technology!) -_-
3rd Place
Darwin, Grade 9
The joy of my life
You are my inspiration and motivation of my life because when I awake you are the joy of my life. You have received falls and cracks from me and despite everything you always remain with me. Every moment you help me find myself. At dusk I adore your sweet company, waiting for dawn to have you whisper in my ear.
Writing poetry is hard. Here’s a poet creating and working away.
Thanks to all the enthusiastic poets who entered the contest. Keep writing poems. See you next year – April 2019, National Poetry Month.
And paws up to my Mascot Besties – Riley, Thor, Chupe and Cronos. Truth: you are the best. Like poetry, you are a treat in my life. I just hang out on bookshelves and look down on you guys. I’m a cat. It’s what we do.
And another poet working away…
And me, Violet, looking for my Mascot Besties, atop my bookshelf.
Winning High School Poets from Alpha: Cindy Avitia Show Off Their Poems
By Riley, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, Alpha Public Schools
Coolest winning poets – Marco Ramirez (left) and Andrea Gonzalez.
These high school poets from Alpha: Cindy Avitia High School are the coolest. They know about technology and its impact on learning and their lives, and they write awesome poems. Get on it.
1st Place
Technology
By Andrea Gonzalez
Technology is not a creation of our time
It’s continuation is an everlasting climb
With it we’ve kept on learning
For knowledge is something that we keep yearning
Throughout the years, throughout the seasons
Knowledge has only ever increased our reason
From the Stone Ages where effective tools were in fashion
To the 1960s, where in media the Civil Rights sought compassion
Learning comes in many stages
In that regard tech has only increased our wages
Look around and really see
Everything here’s thanks to technology
Your bed, clothes, chair, yeah I know this rooms a mess
But everything’s been cut, fined, or pressed
By machines we don’t know the names of
Most of us don’t care, hear the name give it a shove
Technology is the shiny signs, computers, watches, or phones
Things we are always excited to own!
It’s thanks to them that people from this age
Know about the history books, not just their recent page
The access of information is endless
It’s a curious mind’s form of bliss
Nowadays we learn to be human digitally
Talking to people we can’t hear or see
Toddlers owning tablets
Children starting habits
Of staring at their phones all day
“Jimmy just go out and play!”
This new era may seem like the first
But who do you think called books the worst?
The original people who exclaimed: What about talking?
When they saw people buried in their books as they were walking
But the times are changing!
It’s cause for industrialization
For the rise of globalization
It sweeps the nation!
In education
That inspires motivation
Technology inspires creation.
Without it we’d be stuck in a Stone Age frustration
2nd Place
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY
By Marco Ramirez
We live in a world of Technology
Improving is what we do
By the time the world ends
We will not be dead.
In a world of Communication
Our minds will read each other’s
There will be no more, phones
There will be no more, beepers
There will be no more, hands on devices
Dinosaurs went extinct
And us humans are next
Not physically but mentally
Babies can operate phones
There is a new breed
A new life
A future for the world
There will be no more struggles
And old school will be an old term
Iphones and Macs will evolve
Vehicles that predict accidents
Steel plate backpacks
VR and hunchbacks
The new life we all live
Will only continue to develop
The world we lived in died
People from it are leaving with it
Our earth will continue to improve
Because that’s what we do…
Arf, that’s what we do. Learn with technology that inspires creation. Great poems. Real treats. (I’m so excited I’m looking for some beef treats.) Arf!
More poet winners to come. Stay tuned.