Week 1 Free Choice
I believe that the lack of digital freedom does nothing to help our students. Students spend their time outside of school immersed heavily in a digital world. Facebook, texting, YouTube, Twitter are all examples of ways students interact with the world. The named are also mostly banned in schools. There are ways to incorporate all of these into the curriculum but they are not. Why? or why not? Why not create Facebook pages for learning? Why not use texting to do live interactive surveys (Polleverywhere.com)? While a site like YouTube has a lot of content for entertainment, there is a lot that can be learned from this site. Twitter also has ways of searching for information on posts that lead to other learning opportunities through articles, images or videos. When teachers start to use these tools in the curriculum, a new kind of learning will take place. Learning that students are used to.
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