Teach.
That is becoming a scary word to me. It is exciting, and I hope that I am going to be good at it, but there is a ton of responsibility in that word, it is more than just keeping the kids alive for seven hours, making sure they eat their lunch and get them back on the bus or in their parent's car safely. I have been doing that with Privates for years, I just hope that I never have to go to the Police Station at 3 in the morning to sign for one of my 3rd Graders.
I am behind the power curve to most of my peer group when it comes to technology. Sure, I love computers, I can repair them, I can use a smartphone... but when it comes to taking a selfie or making a vine, I am absolutely lost.
Cats = Clicks
There's your introduction to anything digital media related that I know. Of the three blogs that I visited, the thing I noticed about them was how focused they were on the people. Sure, there CAN be some info in there somewhere, but mainly what I see is Social Media. They want introductions and pictures, well if you want that, you can go to my Facebook site.
Classroom 2.0 had a Networking event and personal introductions on the home page. I'll not mention the name of the next one because they were sorry that they didn't have a new Chromebook, and the third was all about political activism. Edudemic was a nice read though, their posts talked more about how to enhance and develop the students which to me seems a little more helpful.
When they make these "Top 10 lists" of this or that, these are all based on opinion. Is the website that is building the list wanting to push an agenda? If they are, the only blogs that are going to make their list will reflect that agenda. It is an unfortunate side-effect to this new connected world, the squeaky wheel is going to get all the grease.
Deflategate!
Hey Sam,
ReplyDeleteBlogging got it's start as basically online diaries - web logs - back before MySpace, Facebook, and all the other current social medias, so yes most blogs you will come across are very people oriented. But there are those out there that you may end up following because they do do a good job of providing information that you are interested in.
And I would say that every website you come across has an agenda - they are selling something, even if it is just a point of view. Part of our job as educators is to help students learn to be discerning of what they find on the Internet; hopefully we have gotten beyond the belief that just because we found it online does not make it true.