I'm going to go with the light theory.
My two classes are revving up for a couple of big finishes with projects this semester, and then there will be a few weeks of reprieve. I have been thinking a lot lately about stuff and thought I'd jot it all down.
I attended a web conference this week about Web 2.0 tools. We discussed social networking, social bookmarking, photo sharing, wikis, etc ... We watched this YouTube video and were asked for our reactions. One of the questions posed by a fellow classmate was
For good or ill, we surf, search, mine the Internet for information to increase our own knowledge, to make our lives better, to make ourselves richer. . . at what cost? We write, post, blog, respond, collaborate, live a virtual life via the Internet to communicate, to connect, to inform, to persuade . . . to what end?
I'm curious to know what others think?
2 comments:
To teach, to learn, to advance ourselves in an age where real spare time is limited and the world is large but only a click away. A time when the resources available online far surpass what we can privide to our students in the classroom.
There seems to be so much information available at our finger tips that in the last several weeks I've decided sometimes I just have to stop, relax, not read every headline that pops up on yahoo when I check email, and sometimes only check my email 2 times a day. Sometimes the most important thing is to sit with the family, talk about your day and just turn the technology off.
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