Digital Blog Post #K

"The world is forever changing"
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Hello, hello, hello J

On this blog post I wanted to make a clear statement by saying "The world is forever changing". You can be sure of this statement because the world doesn’t pause. It doesn’t stop for a couple years so that we can learn about it in a text book. It's revolving and if we don’t keep up with the facts we will be left behind. It is important for us as teachers to not just rely on the textbooks that only get updated every couple years because of school budgets. We as teachers must go out into the world and find out ourselves what is going on so that we can teach our students. Now we are nothing close to news reporters. So where do we "go out and get" our information from? Well that’s where the world web comes from and more specifically tech tools like preselected websites for teachers or social bookmarking.

Technology allows teachers to gather information and store it in extremely better and more efficient ways than ever before. When a teacher would want to reference something before they would have to go through their piles of books if actually owned by them and search individually for their reference. Now referencing back to things are just at the tips of their fingers or a search bar per say.

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Another note to this wonderful technology world that I made before is that information is constantly changing. Technology allows for teachers to electronically be noticed when information changes or comes about. This provides busy teachers a great system of notifications of new information.

Technology is efficient in so many ways, for example: before when teachers would want students to refer to several articles or websites they would print each out for the students to read. Now teachers have access to WebQuest, Virtual Field Trips, and Videoconferencing all of these which allow students to view websites and articles that teachers provide them with out all the hard copies. Which usually the teachers keep because they have to use the same set of hard copies for their next class. Online field trips allow students to work where ever they have access to the internet. 

And I also made a Gliffy diagram as well about tech tools 6.1 and 6.2. 

References:

Gonzalez, Ivana. (2016) Gliffy Diagram.

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.