Students should learn the skills in order to "survive" on line!

Frankly speaking, it is a good article that raises the issue which I feel struggled all the times. Teachers and students use Internet information either to prepare their lessons or to finish the homework. We rely on it so much, but there is no mandatory course to teach all of us to be skillful on line. You have to figure it out by yourself. How to effectively locate the information and at the same time to minimize the distractions from those bad websites is critical to know. Reflected on my first year of browsing over internet, I frequently entered the wrong websites which the information really scared me. By the time, I was an adult already. I do not want a child without any tech support/supervision to browse over the websites. I think the state should put computer class as a mandatory course.

What suprised me in this exercise?

After I took the Google search lessons, I thought I understood everything in the lesson. When I took the quiz, I realized I need to go back to the lesson because many of the things I am not very clear. My experience is that the lessons with video clip is much easy to remember compared to the lesson in pure text.

What did this experience make you wonder about?

I feel I am really cool now. Before this class, I feel Blogs are for tech people not for me. I admired people who have their own Blogs to freely express their opinions to the whole world. Now I can do it, I may use this blog as a way to communicate with my dear friends. Because everyone is very busy, it is hardly to make phone calls to each other. Now through this website friends can find out what I am doing. I can also update the pictures periodically. For my teaching career, I not only can post the homework on the blog and also can post any assignment which can generate discussions among the students. This experience gives me confidence to become a 21 century educator.

Something interest In the LOC

After I listened to the audio presentation of the library of congress, I felt it is good to know the difference between primary resources and secondary resources. As a teacher, I think it would be better to introduce students with raw materials first and provide them with the opportunities to observe, reflect, and question on the topics. Then the students will be more aware of the distinction between past and present which helps them become critical thinkers and eventually act upon the society. I remember a famous saying: there is nothing new under the sun. People are more aware of the history then are more aware of their social responsibility. As the history progresses, everyone is the part of the history. We can encourage the students to make their own contributions in the US history.

Access to my technology class

Technolgy class Website
http://sites.google.com/site/itec814fall2009/