Lessons Learned

I learned many things from the information that was assigned for this lesson. One of the more interesting assigned readings was the "The New WWW." I really found it interesting how the article broke the information down. For example how we are surrounded by WWW everywhere we go and how if we continue to progress at the rate we are now we will soon be surrounded with technology and information unlike anything we could understand at our current state. The reason why I believe this is true is because as I think back in my life and the technology that has progressed just in the last 10 year has been amazing, I can't even fathom what it will be like in another 10 years.
The, "Did You Know; Shift Happens - Globalization; Information Age," video is a perfect example of what I was saying previously. In the video it talks about how students that are starting college now, the information that they learn will be obsolete before they even graduate from college. This was really interesting to me, the thought that what they are coming to college to learn could be obsolete before they even finish learning it is mind boggling to me.
The other article that I really liked was "Study: Teens See Disconnect Between Personal and School Writing" article. I found it very interesting that even though student have learned how to communicate in a completly different way when they write on facebook or texting, that those writing styles don't transfer into there schooling is amazing for the students brain to switch to a complete different way of speaking, I feel as though it is more then just changing there patterns but it is almost being bilingual. So many youth are online using Facebook or texting. Almost everything is abbreviated such as “lol” and teens say things like “U2” rather than writing you too. This abbreviated way of speaking is so quick in the students minds, it is truly like another language.
As teacher we need to allow students to feel as though they are free to express themselves in anyway they can. In the article it said that many of the students feel that they are not able to be creative in their school writing, but they can be creative when they are writing on Facebook, or with texts. Again as teachers we need to allow our students to be free to express, we can do this by having free writes but not just by hand, have your students create and maintain a blog instead. This would be a great opportunity to have students show their thoughts but be creative as well.