I sincerely believe the wave of technological advances relating to information sharing and distribution on the world wide web is a tremendous development. Mankind should benefit from this explosion. For example, engineers can examine water supply problems in a remote area of a third world country, using gps and GIS technology to isolate any potential water supplies. Satellite technology currently can show underground formations which have the potential to be aquifers and a plan can be designed to bring an adequate water supply to remote villages from an engineer physically located thousands of miles away.
For educators, the explosion of this information technology offers limitless possibilities for classroom applications. Through programs such as Google, Wikipedia and other search engines students can access virtually the entire spectrum of human endeavors. Organizing systems such as RSS feeds and aggregators allow teachers to help students to narrow their searches for content relevant information. Indeed the problem students face most is too much information availability.
Teachers must embrace this technological bounty. Whether good or ill, present day students live in a world of technology. Smart phones are performing more and more functions. Students can watch movies, find answers to any question, shop for food or clothes, play games and listen to music on their phone.
The teacher must help students to use this technology and in order to be helpful to students teachers must be familiar with and use the technology themselves.
This is my first blog post ever! I can see how it could be habit-forming.
A Blog for students to comment on their learning process as they expand their knowledge of using technology in the classroom
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