So my thoughts on building an online education community and participating in a PLN.......... I think this is a great way to share thoughts and connect with other educators. Its also a resource our students can use. Its going to be really important to make sure students understand its purpose. I also want to make sure my kids understand that this is a form of communication and a way to connect and share. I would still like to emphasize the importance of verbal communication and that this is just another way for them to express themselves and connect with others. In this time of video games, texting, and social networking does anyone think that kids today are lacking skills when it comes to their ability to verbally communicate with eachother?
One of the things that stood out to me on the commenting advice was to make sure I was inviting comments... I could ask questions, be open ended, and so on. While posting comments I read one that really got my attention and made it really easy to leave a comment. Hopefully I will be able to do the same!!!
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aguykens
technofitness, here i come
maricela@sbisd
summer 2010
mcw at soe
I enjoyed reading your tool #2. I agree, we should still enforce the importance of verbal communication. We all see the rise in technology; it should be tied in with verbal instruction, not substituting it. We need to enforce that this is a tool to AID communicating and education as a whole.
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