Leaving class yesterday I had a chance to digest the information that was handed out during the previous 4 hours. One question I have continued to ask myself is where are all the people, columnists, bloggers, etc., that are protesting the advancement of technology as a teaching tool. We have read articles that keep telling us to include new technological advances into our teaching practices, but have yet to come across articles that are telling us to stay away. I guess my question is when are the masses going to cease the article writing of, we should use it we should use it and start writing articles like, okay it is now accepted let's start using various techniques and this is how we should implement. I think the masses need to clear the hurdle of telling others it is a good thing and realize that it has been accepted and begin showing novices (as myself) how to utilize this power of technology in our classroom. I realize that this was only the 2nd class and that is why were spent time discussing why it is important, I am now looking forward to continuing classes to learn how to implement the information into my classroom and use it effectively.
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Cool blog. Like the background. I agree, it is time to just get started using the Web 2.0 apps in our classrooms. You do hear negative news stories about myspace and facebook, but it looks like the upsides of using this kind of technology with the kids we teach far outweighs the downsides. See you in class.
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