1st Class Meeting

Our first class meeting went pretty well. Our group works well togther and I feel that we did a really nice job with our group name, motto, and the in class assignment on the Technology Standards and creating a tool box. I had standard number 2 and one of the things I thought of was a webquest. I felt that a webquest would fit this standard, because it allows students to search and discover on their own. Also, you can tailor a webquest for different groups or on an individual basis. You can have different individuals or groups work on different parts of the webquest based on their ability level or learning style. In groups you can put some stronger students working with some of the weaker students.

The major difference I see between web 1.0 and web 2.0 is that in web 1.0 users were unable to interact with the website. There author of the site was the authority and you took what they said as fact. Now in the web 2.0 generation we can communicate and comment back and forth. Web 2.0 allows for a more collaborative effort, then the web 1.0 did.

The net generation is the generation of students that are born into technology. They have always known technology and do not know what life is like without this technology. They are different from previous learners in that they donot strive for knowledge, they have knowledge at their fingertips on almost any device you can imagine. What they yearn to know is how to synthesize it and to understand it on a deeper level. The implications for us as teachers is that we need to be prepared to introduce technology to our classrooms. Technology can no longer be a side show, it must be a part of the classroom enviornment and incorporated into our lessons. Failure to do this, will fail to prepare student's to be productive members of society.

The six standards for technology is: 1. Creativity and Innovation 2. Communication and Collaboration 3. Research and Information Fluency 4. Critical Think, Problem Solving, and Decision Making 5. Digital Citizenship
6. Technology Operations and Concepting.
I think that younger teachers are more prepared to meet these standards then veteran teachers. Veteran teachers are not willing to give up the control of the classroom in order to allow these standards to be adquetly meet. Younger teachers are more integrated to technology and are more likely to incoporate these standards. The one other factor playing into this is money. If a district does not have the money, they will not have the technological tools to incorporate these standards.