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ok, this was a fun story.. it related the history of pencils back to former times when people instead used a tablet, chalk and an abacus and now where we look to today where we have the computer. I wouldn’t recommend it as an informative read, but it was a nice change to read from other debative discussions about the informational world of technology.
ok, this was a heavy read. i can’t say i recommend it, although the main points I got out of it were; information is more accessible through the click of a button rather than sorting through shelves in a library. however this deprives children in expanding their skill in research abilities. “The only way children are going to find resources that address their driving questions is by using the Internet. • The Internet is the only mechanism that can provide the diversity of opportunities for discourse needed in K-12 education”. This being said the internet enables and propells children towards finding information that is reliable from a diverse range of sources, thereby enhancing their research techniques and skills.
I seem to like Idit Harel….well if we move beyond her name, (no offence to anyone with that name) she actually is concise and makes some very valid points. A safe website is not necessarily always a “good one”. In terms of getting children motivated, creating, designing and being engaged in their learning.. this is what Harel has conveyed to me as features that make a ”good website”. It also provides children with the opprtunity for self expression, she challenges us to consider the internet not as information technology but as expressive technology.
ok, so im gettin myself a bit together with these readings. This article expresses 3 intergral keys for helping children thrive in tecnological driven world. These keys being; exploring, expressing and exchanging. According to founder of MaMamedia these help children “become masters of change in a world in which change is all that is certain” and “children who are confident explorers develop resourceful and flexible minds”. It was an easy quick read – not highly informative, if you want a quick squiz.
I found this reading interesting – as I feel i can identify with some of the ideas on teachers who have “classical tools” and methods that achieve good results, yet are constrained by curriculum outcomes to change their style in teaching to become more technologically based. It also argues that employing technology into the classroom is not necessarily a beneficial thing if students learn to cheat and adopt ideas like “slabbing” (student copies and pastes slabs of infomation) and this can generate “mentalsoftness” in the next generation, where we have children who are weak and to careless for thinking. Overall it was a fine journal article….
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