Lessons Learned

Instant media gratification. The New WWW hit the nail right on the head. We are living in such a fast paced world, it blows my mind! The WWW article talks about getting out of assembly-line education and broadening out teaching to include all the available technology resources. My only concern is what if these resources become so available and prevalent that students no long have to create their own project, they can simply look up one online and copy it? Plagiarism is already a slight problem today, but will this trend increase? I thought the survey in the article "Teens Disconnect" was very interesting, stating that all the texting and other personal writing may be affecting teens abilities in school writing. I even catch myself becoming lazy in my sentence structure and word choice because of how I text.

On the positive side, the "Committment to High Tech Education" video was awesome! I would love to attend that school and have that kind of technology available to use. The real life application makes education interesting and they apply all the students learning to what they are interested in. I hope that all schools can some day have that kind of technology so students can learn by doing and applying. These are the kinds of tools that would be great to have in math so students can connect with what they are learning.