Whew. What a ride. This has been an enlightening Summer for me. Not only have I done 23 things but I also did a workshop with Education Connection for Digital Media in the 21st Century for two days. THAT was something I had to process for a while and frankly I am still processing it. It actually was extremely interlinked with what I have learned in web 2.0 and I found it very useful in the workshop that I had covered some of this material.
This has really changed my way of thinking in terms of how we share information and how we organize it. It also blows me away to think about how much smarter we are going to be and how much faster. I think the students are going to be very appreciative of their instructors that choose to embrace their digital future and guide them into it. It was a topic of discussion in the workshop : "What happens if we ignore it and let them run rampant with technology?"
Some of the answers are frightening, and we have already seen evidence of what happens i.e. text language. The generation of our students today have created a language that many of us do not even know, and they wil continue to do so in everyway of we don't grab on to it!
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Love the title of that workshop -- glad that this has helped to connect with other learning for you this summer. You are right-- teachers do need to embrace digital tools and guide their students -- if not, they are doing them a great disservice and are not preparing them for the world that they live in. I enjoyed following your blog and wish you a year of wonderful experiences with your students as you incorporate your new skills into your instructional practice. Great job!
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