If there is one thing I have learned over the last seven weeks of school, it is that the educational world is changing, shifting away from old linear ways of teaching and into a new networking style of thought. No article that I have read thus far has brought this fact to light like the article “Footprints in the Digital Age” by William Richardson. In it, he speaks about how the Internet is starting to change education as we know it.
Now. What do I think about this? Frankly, I don’t even know where to start. His writing was chock full of intriguing information. I suppose one thing that did stand out more than the rest was when he stated that our teachers will be our “colearners” as student and teacher alike stand together singing Kumbayah, creating our own learning networks and figuring out how to use them. Nice image huh? Of course I added on most of it, but he did say in the article that teacher and student would have to learn this at the same time. With the teachers in the same boat as us, things would go much more smoothly in class. I do like the Kumbaya image though. Another thing he touched upon was how a little girl named Laura Stockman turned a small gesture into a massive, worldwide movement of goodwill. After her grandfather passed away, she wanted to do one good thing a day until Christmas. This soon got global attention. Now our little Laura has collected books for libraries, and donated thousands of dollars, among other things. This just goes to show how such a little thing can become so much more under the right circumstances. And that my friends, is the power of the interwebs.
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