Over the next week, please respond to the following thoughts:
- Children should be empowered to make a contribution to the world, starting in the classroom
- See technology through the eyes of children
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Technology and Instruction
Over the next week, please respond to the following thoughts:
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In order for children to feel empowered to make a contribution to the world, they must feel connected to the world. The use of technology in the classroom can help children to learn about the world, think more broadly, and feel empowered. For example, incorporating "Clustr Maps" on a blog can help children to lean about new places, and recognize that their ideas and comments are reaching individuals well beyond their classroom. This is empowering!
Computers offer children limitless social interaction, a sense of belonging and a connection to the world. Technology itself will allow them quick access to a vast amount of information, enriching their learning experience. It would be wise for school systems to embrace these advances and use them as teaching and learning tools.
We all must be empowered to make contribution to the world. Techonology in the class room is the perfect place to start, young minds are eager to learn and they understand technology more than we give them credit. They are able to learn about different people and cultures, animals and many other things that would love to learn more about. Giving them access to techonolgy will not only empower them but they will change the world aroung them.
I believe that children should be exposed to technology in the classroom. They should be given vast opportunites to use, and become comfortable using, technology. Through the use of the interent for example, students can find limitless information on almost anything that they are researching. They can even communicate with people on the other side of the world, and do virtual tours of historic places. I think that the experiences that students can have using technology in the classroom is empowering. It can make learning relative, fun, and interesting. However, as a safety precaution schools do need to teach students how to use the internet, and all technology responsibly. Also, if students are not taught how to use technology in school, they may never become comfortable using it.
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I think that this article did a great job highlighting realities of this spate of internet social networking that has been going on and, more importantly in my view, some major risks. I know of a few situations where people have been denied professional employment due to their MySpace pages. I don't claim to be an expert at Facebook/MySpace (because I don't participate on either) but I am told that you can block people from accessing your page. There is a quote from the article that really struck me though...""It's really hard to be in seventh grade these days. It's really hard if you're shy and you're not a cheerleader or extraordinarily popular..." I feel like this notion has been around since teenagers were invented, right? It's not easy for everyone and that's just the way it is. I don't see how 'updating your profile/page' or 'getting 'friended' changes thing, but I guess like in most facets of life one thing seems to never change: perception is reality.
With the internet connecting everyone across the world and allowing children to see the hardships that other societies are going through. They get to see the disasters and the tragites which encompass the world every year and this allows the possibility to start fundraisers or food drives to start making a diffrence in the world. Starting this in the classroom is extremely easy and is a great way to start a child in the right direction of making a contrubution to the world.
Computers offer extraordinary and endless opportunities for growth in children. They can also help children grasp concepts that perhaps they wouldn't understand otherwise. It is a venue that can open new doors. In my educational career I have found that computers have always kept my students more interested in what I was teaching... So why not?
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