I remember attending school and never breaking out a calculator because my parents didn’t have the money to buy a big 10 key calculator. That calculator can now be purchased for $1. Learning is so much different now than then. We are more interested understand what the facts mean instead of just the facts. We are constantly attempting to connect our learning to the world around us. I help my students do just that through the Internet. I have a couple of Web Quests that I require my students to complete. This helps them realize how what they are learning is really connected to the real world. A lot of times young people start to thing that we are just making them learn this or that because we are told to. If I can help my students see the connections they are much more eager to learn. I use the Internet to help me facilitate learning in my classroom.
When I have a question, I find the appropriate journal online to answer it. I typically Google the subject in question and find a reliable source to glean the information from.
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Hi Aimee,
ReplyDeleteDo you really think learning is different? I look at it more like what interests us is different. I get irritated sometimes when I think of how dependent everyone is on calculators even for simple math. I remember using a slide rule and you could do any calculations with it. It was invented to make things easier just like computers and graphing calculators today. We have always tried to make things easier and that is never going to change.
In the end we will keep making more things easier for people like we always have so in a sense we are actually learning the same way it would seem to me.
Debbie Stripling
Aimee,
ReplyDeleteWow! That is so true about the prices of the calculators. I remember the TI-80 being the calculator that was too expensive for me to get. What memories. I too find that my students are more eager to learn when they see that connection rather than just doing it because I said so. What are WebQuests? I too use Google a lot to research and learn on the internet. Reliable sources that is.