Ross is the prototypical digital native. He says, “We all know Âpeople…who have all this content that they are not publishing stored on their computers. We’re trying to persuade them to live their lives online.†If this is how young people think, is it any wonder that their digital immigrant teachers don’t understand them? The Savvy Technologist I was reading the comment above, it got me thinking. Do I want to live my life online? I know that my communication…
I have spent the day attending the K12 Online Conference. I am finding a little bit for everyone. I am most taken with the Basic/Advance training category. There are great presentations on how to use and integrate web tools in the classroom. These presentations include movies and resources. I wish these resources were available to me when I began my navigation of the read/write web, I must say I have learned a great deal today and hope to share this…
In my last entry I commented that what they [students] needed were options. As teachers we need lots of options as well. We can not create all the options. We need to collaborate, share and communicate. We need to do this together. We need to be members of the learning community. We can not work in isolation. We need to model how knowledge is created, a sharing and building of ideas in community. Whether we talk face-to-face or through the…