I will continue to bring technology into my class by demonstrating the use of it and talking about technology and the new terms (released last month) with my students. I will use my projector to show them sites daily, but I still feel the need to control the content that they view. I will try to make it relevant to their lives.
I am still trying to see the big picture and how it will affect the masses of people using the internet. How are we changing? Are we more polarized because of the internet and how it functions? Are we more in tune with small pieces of information and do we shun more wordy documents. What is the big picture? If lots of brains put together make better decisions than why isn't the internet solving world problems or is it and we don't see it yet. Why does the world seem more polarized and some people appear less informed than before or even miss informed?
I continue to work among many digital immigrants and that affects the movement towards online development. I become frustrated when the conversation ends up at the level of click on this and then click on that. 21st century learning is about solving your own problems!
You can find answers to anything on the internet and just last night I discovered the answer to everything is 42 (you will have to Google it-check Wikipedia under the internet usage). I will not stop learning and I hope to impart that on my students by sharing the things that I am interested in and asking them what they are learning.
Thank-you again for this opportunity and thanks to the other bloggers- I enjoyed reading the posts. I will keep the blogs in my Google reader and hope that everyone will continue their journey.
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