One thing that was brought to my attention while I was going through all of the videos, articles and websites was that there are constantly improvements. I knew that technology was moving quickly but I didn't realize just how quickly. In one of the articles it stated that for students that are in a four year degree program, by the time they are in their third year of school, the information they learned in their first year will be outdated! That just absolutely blew my mind!
Another idea that I really liked in the WWW article was that we can't let the new technology be a distraction to our students or a detriment. We need to make our lessons full of the new technology so that they are engaged and interested. This way they will be using the technology to their benefit instead of just losing themselves in something meaningless.
One more thing out of all of the great resources that were provided that I liked was the High Tech Learning site. It amazed me that you can actually get degrees from taking classes online. I had always though that taking classes online was just something mom's did because they needed to stay home with their kids. I didn't realize just how efficient they are and how beneficial they can truly be. It made me want to sign up for some of those classes so that I can become more comfortable with the computer while learning other things as well.
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