In an attempt to write an article for the blog for this week, I started surfing. There are some amazing blogs out there. Made me wonder what I am doing writing this, however. Not to be so easily deterred, here I am again.
Some of the blogs I found and what they are doing this week.
Yes Tech! has a great article on President Obama’s. This blog covers a wide range of topics about technology and education.
Webblogg-ed, Will Richardson, deals with Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and the future of education. Will Richardson is well known for trying to push our education system into the 21st century.
Media Matters- Hall Davidson’s blog. Hall Davidson works with Discovery School and works with video and long distance education. He has great topics like how to merge two movies so it appears that someone is, for instance, walking up to a dinosaur.
Ning in Education This blog is most concerned with using social networks for education.
Moving at the Speed of Creativity Wesley Fryer- His most recent post was about how race still matters for dropouts and student identity. His range of topics is pretty broad.
These are just a few of the better known blogs on computer education. They all have great ideas to ponder but none is the end all be all. Hope you like them.
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I stopped in at Weblogg-ed and read the most recent post there. The quote that struck me was,
"However, there are serious challenges associated with implementing an NDM (New Digital Media)-based pedagogy. NDM may be seen as sources of entertainment and escape, not learning; additionally, the determination of the proper level of scaffolding can be difficult. The Internet’s potential for learning may be curtailed if youth lack key skills for navigating it, if they consistently engage with Internet resources in a shallow fashion, and/or if they limit their explorations to a narrow band of things they believe are worth knowing. Left to their own devices and without sufficient scaffolding, student investigations may turn out to be thoughtful and meaningful—or frustrating and fruitless. A successful informal learning practice depends upon an independent, constructivistically oriented learner who can identify, locate, process, and synthesize the information he or she is lacking."
The quote seems to define the very quandary of our digital age. Students have limitless digital outlets to indulge their curiosities, which in turn diminishes their capacity to develop independent critical thinking skills that would in turn allow them to expand their use of, knowledge of, and evaluation of digital media.
It's a catch-22.
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