What is the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 bookmarking?
Web 2.0 focuses more on community and social interaction opposed to Web 1.0 dealt with an individual. Web 1.0 had an individual create a web site, primarily of words and users would read the information. Web 2.0 allows for multiple contributors who not only read content, but also write and share information in a variety of mediums. The 1.0 classroom involves lecture and students are more passive, using lower level thinking and the 2.0 classroom has children engaged, learning by doing, creating, thinking, analyzing, and evaluating.
Discuss the Net generation. Why are the digital students different from the previous generations of students? What are the implications for teachers?
The children of today are born into a digital world. They are accustomed to multi-tasking and using technology to create and communicate. They will most likely respond to teachers who incorporate technology into the classroom because they are accustomed and comfortable with this medium. The net generation spends a substantial amount of time with multimedia. Ultimately, we learn best when we are comfortable.
Information technology has students discovering, inquiring, searching, collecting, organizing, verifying, expressing, and reflecting. These are necessary skills for students to be successful in the world both in and out of the classroom. Also students are learning through being engaged and using higher order thinking skills as they construct new meaning, which is valuable. Teachers need to be able to assist students as they use technology to create and communicate and teachers need to create opportunities for students to be engaged and learn by doing. Teachers are educating students to perform many jobs that do not even exist yet.
What are the six 2007 National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S) and which of the standards you think are well implemented? How do you feel about your readiness to meet those standards?
The six 2007 National Educational Technology Standards for Students
1. Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
2. Communication and Collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
3. Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.
5. Digital Citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.
6. Technology Operations and Concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations.
The standards that are well implemented are research and information fluency and technology operations and concepts. The students use technology to gather information, but do not use critical thinking, problem solving or decision making skills with the information. I feel prepared to use technology and teach my students how to use technology themselves, but not prepared to foster higher level thinking experiences for my students. As teachers incorporate the NETS-S they must facilitate creative thought processes, which is different then teaching content.
Briefly share your experience with del.icio.us, diigo, slideshare, mind-mapping tools from the point of view of opening an account and using it in your teaching career.
This is when I feel out of touch and realize how fast technology changes. I created an account at del.icio.us, but I am still trying to figure the in and outs of the program. The idea of a social bookmarking site would help direct students to specific sites and save them time typing in URLs. Also if a teacher is on his/her home computer and finds a great site, he/she can bookmark the site on del.icio.us and access it easily at school.
Discuss the Internet Safety issues you learned from the posted resources and TDC chapters 7 & 8 content.
Children are frequently using the internet so they need to be educated and using it safely. Parents and teachers need to be involved in children’s online use. Parents need to set boundaries for their children such as the amount of time on the computer, appropriate sites and the location of the computer. Children need to be spoken to about internet safety and using privacy controls, uploading appropriate content, protecting their passwords and avoiding strangers. Finally, remind children that everything on the internet is not always the truth. They have to be taught how to verify information and identify unreliable sites.
I did all this work in Word first and then cut and copied it. I will not do that again because the spacing of this post makes it very difficult to read and I cannot figure out how to adjust the font for this particular entry. I am disappointed because I feel like it takes away from the layout of the blog.
ReplyDeleteI am thrilled that I figured out how to edit individual posts. This certainly proves it just takes time and playing around with the tools to learn them. I wonder what else I will learn about eblogger because this is all new to me.
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