Comments on: WSJ: How do you communicate with students who have grown up with technology? http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/wsj-how-do-you-communicate-with-students-who-have-grown-up-with-technology/ The Read/Write Web in the Classroom Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:00:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Corrie Bergeron http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/wsj-how-do-you-communicate-with-students-who-have-grown-up-with-technology/#comment-1124 Corrie Bergeron Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:04:37 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/?p=1374#comment-1124 <a></a><i>Ok, have I broken the law yet?</i> Fair Use...Fair Use....Fair Use... ;-) As an instructional designer, I'm still trying to figure out how - or if - blogging is fundamentally different from "traditional" means information-gathering and communication, including such hoary tools as Usenet and email. The benefits of using word-processors to teach writing have been well documented. What do blogs and wikis bring to the table? The Web gives us access to firehoses of information, but then, so does a major university library. It just takes less time to access it online. Is that necessarily a good thing? Are we teaching students to be reflexive rather than reflective? This isn't intended to be contrarian - I like cool new toys as much as the next person - I'm just trying to wrap my poor Pooh-like brain around <i>what it means</i>. Corrie Bergeron Ok, have I broken the law yet?

Fair Use…Fair Use….Fair Use… ;-)

As an instructional designer, I’m still trying to figure out how - or if - blogging is fundamentally different from “traditional” means information-gathering and communication, including such hoary tools as Usenet and email.

The benefits of using word-processors to teach writing have been well documented. What do blogs and wikis bring to the table?

The Web gives us access to firehoses of information, but then, so does a major university library. It just takes less time to access it online. Is that necessarily a good thing? Are we teaching students to be reflexive rather than reflective?

This isn’t intended to be contrarian - I like cool new toys as much as the next person - I’m just trying to wrap my poor Pooh-like brain around what it means.

Corrie Bergeron

]]> By: Jacques http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/wsj-how-do-you-communicate-with-students-who-have-grown-up-with-technology/#comment-1123 Jacques Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:36:56 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/?p=1374#comment-1123 <a></a>At a recent conference here in NB (Canada), Mark Prensky (www.marcprensky.com) gave us a couple of neat phrases read from HS students' T-shirts that say a lot about the kids we teach today: "It's not attention deficit, I'm just not listening..." "Whenever I go to school, I have to "power down"" "My cookies on my computer know more of my interests than my teacher" At a recent conference here in NB (Canada), Mark Prensky (www.marcprensky.com) gave us a couple of neat phrases read from HS students’ T-shirts that say a lot about the kids we teach today:
“It’s not attention deficit, I’m just not listening…”
“Whenever I go to school, I have to “power down”"
“My cookies on my computer know more of my interests than my teacher”

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