What I found interesting, is that there were quite a few people that were very behind with technology. A majority of my classmates stated that they know a little bit, but get confused with certain programs. Most say that they are lacking in the technology area, and hope this class will help. Yet, I bet everyone in the class knows how to text, and not only text, text a paragraph long in the matter of seconds. I also bet that many people knew exactly how to run facebook. I bet most could upload pictures, comment, and even update their status from a phone. Same goes for myspace, I bet a majority, if not everyone knows how to run it. With that said, I wouldn't say we were all behind in technology. We have figured out the programs of facebook and myspace, and I would assume without a manual or anything. Therefore, I think it's just that most of us haven't given different technology sources a chance. I can probably speak for a majorit and say that we just didnt know about Delicious or RSS. I think that if we all just sit down and try to figure it out, we wouldn't be so nervous to try it. I just hope this class opens our eyes to all the programs we can use and incorporate in the classroom.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Response to Class blogs
In response to a blog, I decided to respond about what everyone wrote for their technology background. It's very obvious that we all have different history with technology. Some of us know the bare minimum, and others seem to know quite a bit. I also noticed a difference about liking technology among peers posts. I found that some people were quite anxious to learn, while others were apprehensive. Yet, I'd say that a majority of people are ready and willing to learn, hoping this class can help all of us deal with technology in our future classroom. With that said, quite a few people, myself included, stated that they'd like to be able to incorporate as much technology in the classroom as we could. A majority of class peers realized that technology is something that is becoming more and more important in every day life. Therefore, most decided that it would only be suitable that as educators, we should be able to teach are students the importance and uses of technology.
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Very insightful post Jamie and I've seen someone else link to this. I think there is a myth out there that since today's students are raised in a digital world that they are digitally savvy.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, We (being everyone, both young and old life learners) are generally only savvy with the tools we find useful and use relatively often. So different students are familiar with different digital tools but its not like everyone is familiar with all digital tools.
As you say, the key is to apply what we know to new tools and use them, but that also involves finding ways they are valuable to us so that we want to continue using them. Email, Facebook and texting are such nice tools for keeping in touch socially, people have continued using them. There are a lot more features to FB but we generally warm up to them more slowly, if at all.
A big part of my job as the teacher (prodding and poking with a stick :-) and your job as students in class this semester is to find that value in the tools we try out for ourselves, other teachers, and students, and also to share that value with others.
Good job bringing up the fact that we freak out about new technologies but we can text paragraphs in seconds and know how to operate facebook and myspace so easily. It all depends on what we want to spend our time doing and what we make our priority. We could easily figure out a lot of programs but we do not give it a chance because we would rather be on other technologies such as our cellphones or programs like facebook and myspace. We need to focus on programs that are going to help us out in the future and that we can incorporate in the classroom, rather than being afraid of them.
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