Today's readings were about education and how the surroundings of the an individual can determine how the education process works. The reading in the text talked about how for digital natives, the way news and new information is aquired is changing rapidly. In the past learning the news was a more time-consuming task which involved sitting down to read the newspaper or watch the news on television. The new way to do it is to read short articles online and then interact with other readers as well as the authors of the content via comments. The chapter also talked about how it can be a challenge to have technology as part of the education process because it can be a hard ballance between having too much technolgy used and no technology used.
The Internet Article talked about how learning is determined by the surroundings and people in the group where an individual is learning. it also mentions how the way the person learns changes as their familiarity with the group does.
Question: What are some of the ways technology in the classroom has enhanced your learning experience? How do you keep up to date on current events/Do you read the newspaper or watch "The Colbert Report"?
I found it surprising that more schools don't emphasize how to use tools such as the smart board in teachers' curriculum. At my high school, Every teacher who had a smartboard was required to take a course provided by the school on how to use them. As far as I know, this included lesson planning.
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