Marc Prensky is an acclaimed public speaker who focuses primarily on education and learning. He is also an author and producer of several different types of educational software games. Read his article titled, “The Seven Games of Highly Effective People,” .Comment on what you found interesting and important in the article, and then tell why. Also, dare to disagree with something, giving your opinion and reasoning for this discrepancy.
~Ashley
There is so much to be learned about internet safety in such a small amount of time. Your job is to find a video, website or other resource to share with the rest of the class dealing with internet safety. Why did you choose this source? What can teachers learn about internet safety from this source? As a future teachers how will you enforce internet safety in your classroom? With sites such as facebook and myspace being very popular trends, do you think it is our job as teachers to teach students the right ways in which they should be interacting online?
Internet safety is a growing issue in classrooms today. With the increase in the use of technology teachers need to be sure to instruct their students on how to be safe when using these resources. There are numerous dangerous for young people on the internet and students need to be aware of these dangers and how to avoid them.Many schools locally as well as across the nation block many different websites for student usage. The administrators think these blocks are necessary to keep students from looking at material that is inappropriate.
IS the only way to keep students safe on the internet by blocking different sites that you/administrations deem harmful for students? What other ways do you think we can keep students safe?
Upon the last day of our blog moderating, we wanted to bring up the issue of going green since investing in a paperless classroom is such a helpful step.
As future teachers, we realize that it is not only our job to teach students academics, but also give them life knowledge and skills to become educated, successful members of this society.
We’d like you to consider how a green classroom could encourage and teach students how to care for their environment (in this time of enviromental crisis) and contribute to the saving of our planet.
I know this is brief, but the topic is such an important one to touch on.
–jess
We have talked a lot about different types of technologies and how we can use them in the classroom. Today we want to share a YouTube clip with you that discusses PDAs, Pocket PCs and Tablet PCs because these are the cream of the crop when it comes to P/C! Check out the video and decide if you think they’d be useful. Let’s try not to think about cost and how many, many school districts can only dream of such technologies. More so, let’s pretend everyone has these- and how do we keep kids from breaking, losing, swaping and selling these devices? Also think about your life right now, would a device like this help you or do you think you have enough to worry about with your own PC (or mac!)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFf9Mw3nlsY
Kristin
Credibility
1. After reading the article “Growing Wikipedia Refines Its ‘Anyone Can Edit’ Policy” from the New York Times do you think it’s fair that there is protection on some of the major wikis for example George Bush? Does this help make wikipedia more safe for use?
In the classroom
2. In the article included in the professor’s debate (see e-mail from Professor Sarver for the attachment) it says, “At the same time, he [Jim Wales] put in place a set of rules and policies that he continues to promote, like the need to present information with a neutral point of view.” The article suggests it is crucial to keep the information at a neutral point of view because biased opinions create vandalism.
What are ways to avoid bias when editing a wiki? How can these tools and techniques be useful in an English classroom?
3. In the article included in the debate, it states that “in some colleges, it has become common for professors to assign students to create work that appears on Wikipedia.”
Could this benefit a high school class as well?
Wrap up
After learning about the pros and cons of Wikipedia, have your views on it changed since your initial discovery of it? How will you utilize or defend against using Wikipedia as a teacher?
High culture and low culture refer to the level of esteem held for certain things, as in art, or literature, or even just news. The high culture aspect of literature include writers like Hemingway, Shakespeare, Twain, and others of that sort- being almost entirely made up of white males, many ethnic works are not considered part of the literary canon. There are many works that are very high in quality, but do not receive recognition because they were not written by the select few “experts.” Only experts in specific fields can get on the news, while the average Joe who does the same research would never be able to reach such a broad audience.
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At the end of the debate there’s a link to an article about how Wikipedia was used to create an extremely comprehensive documentation of the Virginia Tech shooting. Check it out. Does the use of the internet blur the lines between high and low culture in terms of information distribution?
P.S. Bonus points to anyone who tells me how to mae a new category. I cant seem to find the button for it…
We’ve all used information from Wikipedia, but how many of us have actually contributed to it? We though it may be a good idea for all of us to sign up to Wikipedia and check out/ contribute (if you can) to our own Cortland page.
a.) Log onto Wikipedia and create an account, it takes about 5 seconds. Once on the homepage go to “login” then come up with a username and share it with the class through the blog.
b.) Once you are logged in on your account type in “SUNY Cortland” in the search engine.
c.) If you can, edit or add things (pictures or information) to the Wiki about our college
d.) Once you are under the editing page you can click on “this pages edit history” and see what our peers have edited or added.
* just a side note – I’ve already found spelling errors on the page and possibly information that could be incorrect- help fix our school page!
Did the editing exercise help with understanding how incorrect information and vandalism could be an arising potential problem?
ps. DONT forget to read the links that Professor Sarver sent out by the next post. Most importantly the New York Times article and the e-mail discussions between the English department professors. Thanks!
I was in tenth grade. I had a five page research paper to write. Being the world class procrastinator that I am, it was now the weekend before its due date the following Monday. I was in the library checking every reference computer for any books on “The Visigoths.” As you might imagine I left the library empty handed. So as I sat at home thinking of excuses I hadn’t yet used to extend a deadline, I figured I’d do a search on yahoo. As I had figured, the first few results were a few vague, fairly unusable, explanations of who they were (they were an East Germanic tribe that sacked Rome in 410 by the way), but just as I was about to completely give up I stumbled upon a link that sent me to some oddly named site containing more information on the Visigoths than I could have ever wanted to know. I based my paper almost entirely off of this single site and with it was able to pull off a B+. This site was Wikipedia, and it saved my butt.
In this blogging session Maddie and I will be leading you in a discussion of Wikipedia and high culture VS low culture. But before we really get into it we thought it would be nice to hear about your first experience and initial thoughts were on Wikipedia. How did you come to learn of its existence? What was your initial reaction?
Look at page 47 in the Richardson book. The first paragraph under Blogging with Students talks about internet availability. After reading that paragraph, I didn’t want to simply ask you how you felt about some kids not having internet, I kind of wanted to challenge you. (sorry dont hate me lol) I want to ask, how will you make an attempt to level the playing field for all your students, knowing that some won’t have at-home access to the internet? Or rather, how would you run your blog if only 4/5 of your students had the internet at home?
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