Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Blog Post #7
I think that the internet can be used as an effective means for communication, but things like Facebook, Myspace and Wikipedia should not be used for composition… only communication. Like we experienced in class today, online classes would be very sporadic and off topic 99% of the time. I’m sure everyone had fun today using the MOO but how much educational value was there to it all. In order for a student to get anything out of chatrooms used for education they need to be taught from an early age the purpose of these teaching methods. There would have to be very strict teaching guidelines to monitor, not only the quantity of participation from each student, but the quality as well. The video we watched in class today on youtube was very interesting to me. It raises a concern for people who are planning to become a teacher. If education is going to continue to advance technologically it seems near impossible for teachers to catch up. I think generation gaps are natural, ya know as things advance it makes since that the older crowd would be slower to catch on. I do know a lot of parents who text message and have Facebook accounts, so it is possible to stay current. All of the technological advances do kind of scare me, but I think about what people predicted about the millennium and it has been fine so far. When the changes come gradually everything seems a lot more manageable. A question that I would like to have answered is what will happen to our grammar and our students’ language if everything begins being taught online? Just think how different text message lingo is from how you would write an English paper.
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That's an interesting question. I find myself using slang in my papers all the time. That's why I think a balance of technology and traditional teaching styles should be used in the classroom. I know a lot of older people that have facebook and textmessaging too, so I also think the generation gap can be bridged through these things.
ReplyDeleteI could not agree with you more, and to be honest I find myself wondering if todays slang will be acceptable lauange tomarrow. It was not very long ago that the english lauange was so flowerly and laiden with fluff that most english speakers today can't understand it. Our lauange is changing every day, and it may very well not be for the better.
ReplyDeleteI agree too!! If classes go to like they did when we used the MOO, then I will seriously think about homeschooling. It was a way to keep us physically awake and paying attention, but most of the discussion wasn't productive.
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