Thing #23

Thing #23

This journey has been very interesting. I've learned so much more about what's available on the web for everybody. I found that exploring each thing has really helped me be a more knowledgable resource for my students, colleagues, and children.

Now it's time to focus on a few key areas such as a class blog spot that could include a growing amount of student input including photosharing, narratives, videos, podcast, and voicethreads. I've been able to locate resources I have never used before such as google docs and delicious and plan to use these in my professional and personal life.

The thing about this journey into the web is that there is no going back. I hope that the powers that be expand there vier vision of education beyond memorization and standards. I do believe that there are huge bodies of knowledge out there that need to be shared with and understood by our students to a greater or lesser degree. In addition students also need to be trained how to problem solve, create, relect, and cooperate with others.

I see this journey as two parts: Part I is to help students learn things about the world in terms of history, languages, English skills, mathematics, sciences, music, art, dance etc. It seems that we have a way to go in order to provide better ways to help studets learn this body of knowledge. Technology and multi media in the classroom can help with that as well as resourses for schools, parents, teachers, and students that encourage active learning, creating, interpreting, and creating new sustainable structures.

We all have our work cut out for us, but hopefully we will accept the challenge and help shape the leaders of the future in ways that will benefit our country and our world.