- First, I chose to read #4 -Twenty-Five Days to Make a Difference (Laura Stockman): It Doesn’t Matter if You’re 6 or 26 or 106. After watching Laura’s very professionally done video and reading her blog post and comments I am inspired to encourage all the students at my school to help with community service projects they can be proud of and help others. A very good thing for our youth to learn about and participate in…
- Next, I read #6 – Betchablog (Chris Betcher): The Myth of the Digital Native. The author talks about the misconception that being born into a world that already has technology in all facets of life that you will naturally grow up being tech savvy. We are not born with tech knowledge; it must be learned. Either we teach ourselves or we learn from others… A few years ago I was privileged to teach an Internet Safety course to 12 year old students attending a summer camp at College of the Mainland in Texas City. It was a fun learning experience for both the students and me. I believe teaching/learning about the internet/web should always start with safety and netiquette/ethics on the web, the do(s) & don’t(s) of the medium…
- The third Blog I read was #10 – CoolCatTeacher (Vicki Davis): Spies Like Us. This one deals with the ever emerging technology devices students have access to. Though they have learned to use them, they don’t necessarily use good judgment when faced with “should I do it or should I not”. A teacher’s worst nightmare could be realized by being on the web for the whole world to see because one of their students decided it would be a fun/funny thing to do. Though not the right thing to do, all too often this actually happens… In her Blog, Ms. Davis concluded that though we can’t control what students can do with technology, we can control what we teach them. Ethics should be taught on a weekly if not daily basis. It wouldn’t be a bad idea for everyone to read this Blog; especially those who work in education…
- Number four of the five Blogs I was to read was #16 – Bit by Bit (Bob Sprankle): The Time is Now. Ready or not, technology is constantly changing. Where will it take us next?
- The last Blog I read was was #22. Pair-a-Dimes (David Truss): Students, Information and Schools. Ted Wilson’s comment (#5) on this blog was quite interesting. He refers to a 60 Minutes interview on the younger people in today’s workplace at the URL below… What I took from the interview is that students today and young people in general, have a different mindset about the workforce than middle-aged and older workers. They are a me first generation. Work must be done around their schedule…http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/08/60minutes /main3475200.shtml Though Ted Wilson‘s comment was short, I agree with him. He said, “What we consider ‘work’ and what the future generations will call ‘work’ is also changing rather quickly. Be prepared!”
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