(Teddy Roosevelt fighting Bigfoot. Seems pretty historical)
Throughout most of the chapter, Kajdar focused on a teacher by the name of Kristen who said something that really spoke to me: "...that was a big conceptual leap for students whom Kristen referred to as 'print-trained'" (Kajdar 73). In the passage I got this quote from, Kristen was talking about how some technology can come as a big event in the lives of kids who are normally taught to read and learn from a book, ie: "Print-trained" and a thought occurred to me.
When we enter the teaching field, we will be teaching students who are "print-trained" and will face the same kind of difficulties Kristen dealt with. However, as the years progress, I believe we will deal less and less with "Print-trained" kids and move to more "digital-trained" kids who deal with technology much earlier and have a better grasp with it. If this happens, who knows how it will affect our teaching and the future of education. Those "digital-trained" kids will grow up and become teachers themselves and soon the whole face of education will change. So, how will we deal with it and what can we do? Any ideas?
Robert Rozema: The Book Report....
Rozema's article centered around Podcasts and their uses. I never really knew much, or anything, about Podcasts and basically pushed them aside. After reading the article, I found out that Podcasts are pretty neat and I took to the internet to find some. I found this really interesting Podcast called The Fireside Book Chat . It is a Podcast that reviews books by teens for teens and I thought this would be really helpful for those going into Secondary English Education like myself. You should visit the page and listen to a review. They are pretty fair and gives you some pretty good insight. You can visit it by clicking here: The Fireside Book Chat
Smyte & Neufield "Podcast Time"
Like Rozema's article, these two also talked about Podcasts and their use in a classroom. I like hearing how some 6th and 7th graders were recording stories for 3rd graders to listen to as they read the same book. It was a really neat idea and I'd like to do something like that myself and maybe for my future students. Being an Secondary English Education major, I am more than positive that I will definitely find a use for Podcasts in my classroom.
Kist, Chapter 3:
Chapter 3 was all about social networking and being connected via the web. Two topics in the book were hyperlink response paper and keeping blogs-two things which we do in this class. In the chapter, it talked about how students were almost addicted to hyperlink writing and I must admit after writing these blogs, I enjoy including hyperlinks in my responses because it expands your thoughts and back them up. Also, writing blogs that can be share-able over the internet is much more fun because it gives student;s the opportunity to have their thoughts seen by a much bigger audience than the teacher and classmates.
Anyway, that is all for this week. Take care and until then remember....
~Add a little Streiff to your life~
-Joey S.
Joey,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the fireside bookchat link! This is perfect timing as we will be listening to, and producing podcasts beginning next week.
First of all, great picture, very inspiring. To touch a bit on print trained students/teachers vs digital trained students/ teachers, technology seems to be becoming more and more advanced by the minute. The minute someone buys a piece of technology, that piece of tech is already outdated. So, I feel it's going to become more and more of a teacher's responsibility to keep an eye on these technologies, and at least be somewhat familiar with them. Obviously there are going to be newer things we don't fully understand, but keeping an open mind will make all the difference vs a teacher who refuses to accept change.
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