Archive for August, 2008
After all these wonderful comments being made about ICT in education on people’s blogs, I’m writing a quick comment of the dangers. I’ve found an article called Computers in schools: How we can help children to look after themselves (Byron, T. (2008). The Independent). This author makes the point that while parents tutor their children [...]
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August 18, 2008
I’ve just read another article entitiled Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (Prensky, M. (2001). Digital Nativies, Digital Immigrants, 9 (5), 1-6). It amazes me how much our students have changed….and the fact that we need to keep up with them. I love hte quote “Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed [...]
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August 18, 2008
Another article on blogs in education….there is beginning to be a large number around about the usefulness of blog and teaching (Clyde, L.A. (2005). School libraries and Blogs. Synergy, 3 (1), 39-49.). It is noted that weblogs have a number of applications in education for students, for teachers, and for school administrators. The author states [...]
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August 4, 2008
I’ve just read an article http://www.edutopia.org/all-worlds-stage which talks about the benefits of blogging. Being new to this it is foreign to me but I can see that it would be useful in particualr for helping kids who miss school through sickness or whatever by allowing them to log on to their teachers site and download [...]
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August 4, 2008