Ross is the prototypical digital native. He says, “We all know Âpeople…who have all this content that they are not publishing stored on their computers. We’re trying to persuade them to live their lives online.†If this is how young people think, is it any wonder that their digital immigrant teachers don’t understand them? The Savvy Technologist I was reading the comment above, it got me thinking. Do I want to live my life online? I know that my communication…
I have spent the day attending the K12 Online Conference. I am finding a little bit for everyone. I am most taken with the Basic/Advance training category. There are great presentations on how to use and integrate web tools in the classroom. These presentations include movies and resources. I wish these resources were available to me when I began my navigation of the read/write web, I must say I have learned a great deal today and hope to share this…
My son, age 9, is a gamer. He spends time each day on the computer playing games (Club Penguin, WebKidz and World of War Craft), quite a range. He also is a Nano user and downloads music from iTunes. He lives in a wireless house, all of our computers can move around the house. On day he had to come to school with me. He set up the laptop while I did a few things. I came back and he…
Most of my past experience as a classroom teacher (middle school) has shown me that instant messaging in the classroom was “evil”. I would take my kids to the computer lab to work on a project, do some research, etc… Most of my time was spent watching kids try to hide AIM in the task bar. They would talk to each other while they were waiting for the ancient machines to do anything. I never knew how to respond. When…
My daughter, a middle schooler, has been blissfully unaware of IM in any format. I have not allowed her to participate in IM or things such as My Space – I have been able to avoid this as she is “underage”. She is literal. If the user agreement says you must be 13, she would never think to lie, she will just say I can’t wait till I am 13 and move on to something else. Well time has caught…
“I put together a PowerPoint presentation with some (hopefully) thought-provoking ideas. I was hoping by telling some of these “stories” to our faculty, I could get them thinking about – and discussing with each other – the world our students are entering. To get them to really think about what our students are going to need to be successful in the 21st century, and then how that might impact what they do in their classrooms.” The Fischbowl: Did You Know?…
I thougth this summer I would have done more writing on the blog. My head is full of ideas but the time just seems to fly away. I have spent the summer reading blogs and playing with tech tools. Many teachers take the time to catch up on a good book, or take a class, for me it was blogs. I learn so much from different blogs; what are the cool websites (I could also learn that from my daughter),…