After watching the video Connected Classroom, how they were discussing the two largest countries are China and India. They mentioned that China would be ranked number 1 for an English speaking country. They ranked Myspace at the 12th largest country in the country.
I enjoyed the part of the video that they said " Connect to your students, Connect them to their world.This is very powerful statement to me and holds true, in order to capture the attention of students we need to bring their world into the classroom. We need to find out their likes and dislikes. Technology is a huge part in a children lives right now. Teaching is much different from when I went to school. Technology in the classroom in a huge improvement. Teachers need to be confident when using the different pieces of technology. Technology frightens me and I need to be familiar in order to feel comfortable but for a student they pick up on this skill almost instantly.
For today's learners, instant communication is a huge part of technology. Text messaging is very popular that most children will not hold a conversation on the phone but instead text. Teachers need to become familiar with Twitter, Blogspot, Wikis, personal websites in order to help their students to be sucessful. The era of pencil and paper is coming to an end and more and more technology is replacing the paper system.
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