I have always been paranoid about posting information about myself online. However, today it is almost impossible not to. These days we spend a lot of time on our computers; the Internet has become an important part of our lives. Personally, I rarely speak to my friends by phone, I e-mail, message and facebook them instead and I see a great advantage of it!
While using the Internet, we have to be smart about what information we give away. I have always thought that the Big Brother is watching us. Just take Facebook for example. Just by visiting my profile, someone can know who I am, where I have been, whom I know. They can see all kinds of pictures, read some personal messages on my wall. When accepting a friend, I must confirm how I know him, where and how we met. Who needs all that information?
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Response to "Pay Attention"
I really liked the video. Makes you think how advanced our children are and how technology can be used in order to teach them. Unfortunately, a lot of teachers see new technology as distractors during their classes and require cell phones and I-Pods to be off. By doing that, we don't realize that we are actually missing on opportunity to engage our students more in our classrooms.
Why don't we want our students to use these technologies, that they are so good at already, to learn something new? Is that because we don`t know how to use them properly? Are we afraid that our students are better at this than we are? Do we see technology the way children do? Students can teach their teachers! It is all about sharing knowledge, isn't it?
Imagine teaching Question formation and then, as a reinvestment activity, ask our students to sms 3 questions to people they know. And get bonus points if they get replies in English. This kind of activity will be more relavant to our students than "form 10 questions in your activity book". Can you imagine their faces when you ask them to turn their cell phones on and actually use them?
Check it out here:
http://www.proticblog.net/profs//index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=186&blogId=29
Why don't we want our students to use these technologies, that they are so good at already, to learn something new? Is that because we don`t know how to use them properly? Are we afraid that our students are better at this than we are? Do we see technology the way children do? Students can teach their teachers! It is all about sharing knowledge, isn't it?
Imagine teaching Question formation and then, as a reinvestment activity, ask our students to sms 3 questions to people they know. And get bonus points if they get replies in English. This kind of activity will be more relavant to our students than "form 10 questions in your activity book". Can you imagine their faces when you ask them to turn their cell phones on and actually use them?
Check it out here:
http://www.proticblog.net/profs//index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=186&blogId=29
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