Cons- lack of social cohesion (cultural zones), isolation, digital divide (social capital), equal standards, liberal arts, parental influence,
Pros- engaging, individual responsibility, universal access, customized learning (inclusion), caters to all learning styles, decrease in completion
How can we take this information and maintain a good balance in our current education?
Teacher's need to find a balance between what's usage is appropriate and needed to be incorporated into lessons. They need to observe and decide what is truly necessary. For example instead of writing an opinion in a blog students may gather in a group circle to discuss ideas.
Today we had some very interesting issues to talk about. Two of them that stood out to me included discussion about harassment. Online harassment has in some cases lead to child suicide because they have been hurt so bad. I find this to be very scary. " what is cyber bullying" is a great website that I can look on to learn more about this issue. The other issue that we discussed was "sexting". Parents and teachers need to be aware of the issues that arethis children sending sexual pictures and text messages to each other via cell phone. occuring
Cool tools- Wordle: create a word cloud, livemocha- practice another language, WiziQ: helps with a language barrier in classrooms.
We also discussed scratch once again. Jeff showed us more applications on scratch and how to advance our projects.
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