Digital Concept Map [2]

My Digital Concept Map

 

 

Reflective Blog #2

 

Looking over the years on how I interpreted information using technology has undeniably changed. I am more patient in careful filtering, and diligently evaluating information when using technology, with a critical and skeptical mindset that separates drivel from useful content. Past development via college experience has given me assurance in advancing through technology.

There are many consequences for the future of our students if we fail to teach them the skills on how to accurately use informational technology in the schools. The key is to develop strategies to make sure that students do not get distracted by some of the more enticing but less substantive features of technology is what it’s all about. When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast. The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display information. Technology use allows many more students to be actively thinking about information, making choices, and executing skills than is typical in teacher-led lessons. Moreover, when technology is used as a tool to support students in performing authentic tasks, the students are in the position of defining their goals, making design decisions, and evaluating their progress.

 

NOTE: Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to store, classify, share and search Internet bookmarks. On a social bookmarking system or network, users store lists of Internet resources that they find useful. These lists can be accessible to the public by users of a specific network or website. Other users with similar interests can view the links by topic, category, tags, or even randomly. Other than web page bookmarks, services specialized to a specific subject or format - feeds, books, videos, shopping items, map locations, wineries, etc. - can be found.

From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

 

The advantages of organizing information as a social bookmarking tool are highly great. Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask are a few of my list of preferred selections. When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast. The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display information. Social bookmarking allows many more students to be actively thinking about information, making choices, and executing skills than is typical in teacher-led lessons. Moreover, when technology is used as a tool to support students in performing authentic tasks, the students are in the position of defining their goals, making design decisions, and evaluating their progress

When using technology, we the teacher must consider that we are no longer the center of attention as the dispenser of information.  But rather plays the role of facilitator, setting project goals and providing guidelines and resources, moving from student to student or group to group, providing suggestions and support for student improvement.