Microblogging: A Spiders Web

This week I read two articles about microblogging. The two articles both discussed mircoblogging but using two different ways. The first article about microblogging used a tool called micromobs. The second article used a tool called edmodo tutorial. Both of these articles/videos gave me a better idea of how I could use microblogging in my classroom. All these tools similarly remind me of facebook, or even voicethread, I think microblogging could be used in the same way in the classroom as a voicethread. Here students could share their thoughts and reactions to a topic. Microblogging could also be a way to get information to students, such as if you wanted them to read a post of a professional in a certain field the students could follow that professional and learn from them.

Professionally this could be used to stay current with different educators in the field. You could stay connected with your own staff through microblogging or educators all around the world. Microblogging is a way to create a web, to stay attached and connected to others in the field of education.

If you're going to give them garbage

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On the blog ideaconnect, i found a post called "If you're going to give them garbage". Right away this blog caught my attention, as it contained a youbtube clip from one of my favorite shows The Office. Within this post I found this quote by Alfie Kohn, “Far less interesting to me than whether a student has learned what he was supposed to is the question, ‘Has the child been given something to do worth learning?" I think that this quote is extremely meaningful. It tells a a lot about a teacher. What are you giving your students to do? Is it something worth while that they should be learning, is it interesting to the student, if its not an interesting topic did you make it interesting to the student. Often we blame children for being off task, however I believe that there are many valid reason a child may be off task. I often think to many of my college courses, when I sat there off task. Why was I off task? Was I not interested in the subject, was the lecture important to me? Had I been sitting there too long? Or did the professor present in such a way that I couldn't bare to keep my eyes open another second? I believe this quote is something that all educators need to take into consideration when teaching.

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