Comments on: 5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies

By: Azzurra Spreafico

Azzurra Spreafico — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:12:13 +0000

Hi! I’m an italian educator. I have a blog about pedagogy and psychology. I read your post and I found it very interesting! In Italy there is not enough information about this issue, so I would ask you to translate your post. Naturally I will link you as the autor of post and I will link your site and your post.
I’m waiting for your answer.
have a nice day,
Azzurra

By: spa nyc

spa nyc — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:37:49 +0000

As great as technology is today and how far we have really come , it still in many ways makes us use our brains less and less, less interaction amongst people who can simply see you on line or text you without picking up the phone. But I agree proper education of our kids will open them up to proper use of it.

By: K. Walsh

K. Walsh — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:26:11 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Sally. I am delighted that my blog can be a useful resource for you! Allow me to mentioned a social network that I find very useful as a member – Classroom20.com is a large (over 20,000 members) social network of educators and administrators focused on the use of “Web 2.0″ tools in education. It’s free to join, and in addition to providing a lot of informational resources, it is a community environment, where you can pose questions and get informed feedback. You might want to check it out. Of course, I hope you do come back to EmergingEdTech frequently, and mention it to your colleagues!

By: Rahul

Rahul — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:54:56 +0000

I will suggest to try out MOODLE the Learning Management System which is a complete umbrella of all the teaching learning tool mention above plus many other thing at one stop.
http://www.moodle.org

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:44:52 +0000

I teach high school math, and although I know about the social networking sites out there, I do not currently use them in my classroom. I can see the benefit that they must offer, but I honestly do not feel like I currently have enough knowledge about them to use them effectively in my classroom. I also do not have a lot of spare time to learn about them. I do completeley agree with the fact that we need to change the way we are teaching to keep up with the times and most importantly, keep our students engaged. I want to find ways to use these sites in my teaching. I am just a little intimidated at this point. I am currently pursuing a master’s degree in “Integrating Technology in the Classroom,” so I hope to learn more and become comfortable with using more technology in my classroom on a daily basis. I enjoyed this post. This is the first time that I have visited your blog, but I will continue to read it for tips and ideas for using techonlogy in my classroom effectively! Thanks!

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By: geobart

geobart — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:09:10 +0000

I’m not to sure about that third point, speaking from my own experience. Sure, they all have Netlog and Facebook entries.

I teach them how to make a delicious.com account and they use it in the current project. However, when I look at their accounts a few months later, hardly any url has been added to their accounts. And yes, they’re very resourceful, highly intelligent sixteen-seventeen year old kids.

So you have to take that with a pinch of salt. They roam only some of the outskirts of the internet.

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