Students today have become more technologically advanced than the past generations. Teachers need to be able to help students become more independent and responsible with the technologies that they use. Students will always need someone to teach them something and technology is the same way. Teachers need to be up to date with the technologies, programs, and softwares that are coming out.
While watching a classroom that was using technology, we viewed some students downloading something that they were not supposed to be doing. The teacher was very calm when the student was changing the background on the computer. She stayed calm, but demanded that the student stay on task and to change the background back to the original background.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Digital Learning
In today's society, technology has become an everyday part of our lives. We play video games, watch TV, listen to music, talk on the phone, or spend time on the internet more than we would spend time reading a book, sleeping, or even spending time with friends. Have college students been so overwhelmed with the tasks at hand that we distract ourselves so we stress ourselves out even more? We spend so much time using technology that we fail to keep relationships that do not use technology. We do not develop relationships with the characters in books, or with our peers as much as we used to.
In today's classrooms, students want to use the technology as a way to learn, but the teachers do not let them. They want to learn how to evaluate, apply, think, and they want to be engaged in what they learn. How can they be engaged in what they learn if what they are learning does not relate to them? They are now digital learners which is different from the pen and paper we once used to learn. Today the younger generation will be so advanced in technology that they will end up teaching others how to use something. They are the future and we need to support them with what they already know how to use.
In today's classrooms, students want to use the technology as a way to learn, but the teachers do not let them. They want to learn how to evaluate, apply, think, and they want to be engaged in what they learn. How can they be engaged in what they learn if what they are learning does not relate to them? They are now digital learners which is different from the pen and paper we once used to learn. Today the younger generation will be so advanced in technology that they will end up teaching others how to use something. They are the future and we need to support them with what they already know how to use.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
The Machine Is Us
According to Dictionary.com, Web 2.0 is defined as "the internet viewed as a medium in which interactive experience, in the form of blogs, wikis, forums, etc, plays a more important role than simply accessing information" (dictionary.com) We never think about what we put on the web. As we share pictures, videos, and comments on our blogs, websites, even facebook or myspace we are teaching the web about us. As we move forward we keep teaching the web while we teach others. It is making real life communication easier so we can share our own information, not just information about certain topics and subject. The only question is, where do we draw the line? Can we continue growing in a technology based society where our face-to-face communication dwindles and our relationships become completely over the computer or will we always be able to communicate with ease and have the advancing technology as a helpful guide in our lives?
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