Archive for October, 2008

Stop Isolation
Monday, October 27th, 2008

 

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I was reading an article about Isolation increases with internet…and how many researches in America show the social prices of online living but the most concerned aspect is that it can increase depression and loneliness among the users. I am very concerned with this because [...]

Defeating to Be a Technology Illeterate Teacher
Monday, October 27th, 2008

This is a reactonary posting of Matthew’s posting about Reaction to Fisch. I realliy agree with Matthew about how teachers may feel about being illeterate due to all these quickly changes. However teachers are so creative and they always look for improving new strategies to help their students so I think it is all about time and we see different attitudes [...]


Monday, October 20th, 2008

This is a reactive posting on Cathy’s Want to be my friend…posting. I agree with you about teachers should be concerned about what is going on around young people and their social lives but also it is parents’ responsibilities to know how their children are spending their free time and who are the people that [...]

Using Internet Responsibly
Thursday, October 16th, 2008

This is a reactive posting on Steph’ Blaming Something … response to Alex posting.
I definitely agree with her about that part of the job of schools, with parents, is to teach children to use the internet safely.  We just need to look any survey about teenagers using internet to find out that many children have [...]

Teaching in the Digital Age
Thursday, October 16th, 2008

 
I have been reading different articles about learning and teaching with ICT and all the different challenges teachers have to face in order to keep up with changes that digital age is bringing to a class. There is not doubt at all that technology is contributing to the changing expectations of teaching and learning. Technology [...]

What a Challenge!
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

After reading so many articles about the new digital generation and its impact in the learning, society and communication, I become aware of teachers are facing a big challenge in their classrooms everyday and I was wondering we are ready to handle these changes? Are we ready to tackle these issues in our schools? What [...]