How much time you do you spend online a day? It is a question that you dont find dont find to many people asking now. Between desktop,laptop,game system and smart phonewe as a soceity spend more that half our time sending recvieing information. so the real questions should be what kind of information are you reciving and what kind of information are sending out? For many years the techers and parents have been against using the internet as a tool for learning.The arugment has always been that the net is not a reiable place to find information.However they're is a new generation of teachers that want to use the internetnet as a tool for learning and connect with thier students. one of these individual is Dr. larrry Rosen in his article "rewired" discuss how teachers can utilize the internet as an educational tool in the process.Just like Dr.rosen i believe that techology should be use as part of the educational process.I think anything that can help both teachers and students in the learning process is a good thing.
In the article the author state that world we live today is far more connect than ever before thanks to the internet and he believe that teachers should use it like any other educational tool. He also state that parents shouldnt let today technology raise their kids instead they so help thier kids to find a balance between the two worlds.One that techology can be use in education is in research information.
Now i know that they are alot of things online that are not true but the internet is a good soruce of as information well. for example it a few months ago i was helping a friend of my with a paper. she had to find out information on two wars in the 20th century and compare them. Her and i spend four nights online looking for information.we found alot of articles from several online database. This process saved us a lot of time and legwork.
Another way that techology be use in the education process is get work assignments for class. the one thing i love about most of my classes now is that most of the materals from in class lesson can be found on blackboard. Blackboard has help me out alot of times in the past; one example i can give happend during the summer. At the time i was taking an intro to language class; in a 12 week semeter this class is diffcult so imagine taking it in the 6 week semeter. One of things that made the class easier was that our professor all the notes and homework on blackboard. so just in case you miss class you wouldn't be left behind.
Education is a weapon against world of ignorant. in order to obtain it we must use all the tools at our disposal.the world is full of knowledge both good and bad it job of the teacher to show the student knowledge. if that means spending time in front of a computer srceen then so be it.
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