Monday, May 26, 2014
Blog Lovin
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Blog Post #2 FRIT 7234
After reading the 3 blogs and watching the video, I have realized that I am behind in digitial fluency. Once I started reading them I couldn't put them down. I was highlighting resources they use from Google's late, Podcasts, Goodreads, and Slideshare. I have always thought that I am technology savvy so to say, but I like what Karen Lirenman said in her article, the journey from digitial literacy to digitial flluency, "It is more about transforming how I think about teaching and learning with technology and how it applies to my students." I was just talking the other day to some fellow teachers about how are we supposed to be a digital innovative library without technology? After reading Lirenman's blog, it spoke to me...it is not about the lack of technology tools we have, it is about using the technology we do have to its full potential. The way our students learn is completely different than the way we were taught to learn. Information is at our fingers 24/7 and we as media specialists have to keep up with the times. Our goal is to teach our students how to retrieve and use that information while learning.
The InfoWhelm video's topic was something that all our schools should want to be able to achieve. We should want our students to take their learning into their own hands and not always have the correct answer. But it is not always going to work in the public schools, because we are pressured by standardized tests. I hope that our schools will branch out from this, but I do not forsee that happening soon.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Blog Post #1 - FRIT 7234
3) Gain confidence in promoting new information technology