BLOG 4- One Laptop per Child

I found a great video clip about a very interesting program designed to give every child in the world a laptop computer! Click the link under WEBSITES for Classes 11-16 Links called: One Laptop per Child. What is your reaction to watching this? Why is providing technology to children one of the most important things that can be given to someone? Can access to technology really that important? Why or why not?

Blog 3- Is texting ruining the english language?

This is an interesting article about texting. Do you think texting is ruining our language? What do you think? Also, brainstorm ways you think texting can be used to support your learning in college.

Blog 2- teaching in the 21st century

Please read carefully the latest statistics regarding kids' use of technology found above under the name BLOG 2. What statistics interest you the most and do you think have the biggest impact on you as a teacher? How does this change how you are going to teach children in the 21st century?

Blog #1- Frontline Video

I stumbled across this great TV show highlighting how kids are growing up ONLINE. I thought part of the program was effective at highlighting some of the challenges teachers have with how different kids are in this new digital age. Please click on the link and watch ONE section, "A Revolution in Classrooms and Social Life" and share your thoughts on this blog with the rest of your class. Please focus your answers on the following prompts: "How are YOU as a teacher going to deal with the fact that kids are different these days and even at a very young age are used to being online? Do you think teachers have a responsibility to add technologies to support learning in the classroom? Do teachers have an obligation to help students understand appropriate uses of the Internet?"