I believe that an education course can effectively integrate blogs, twitter and other current technologies to benefit the students and teacher. We have already been exposed to many benefits that technology has brought through the use of email and online course studies allowing test taking, videos and communication without the need to be in the classroom solely listening to lectures or reading powerpoint presentations.
Now with the implementation of blogs and Twitter educators can expose their students to these new forms of technology in addition to the face to face communication already given in classrooms. According to The Daily Orange article Classroom Technology Effective when used as Additional Tool educators have concerns about students seeing the advancements in technology as a way to justify not needing to come to class as often. I would look at these advancements in technology as a modern teaching tool and another method to use for reaching more students.
Communicating through discussion boards and blogs is a way to share ideas and opinions that you may not have had the opportunity to do in class or may have not felt comfortable or even have thought of at the time. It can keep the learned classroom material at the forefront of the students thoughts and really get some interesting comments and feedback from others on different topics.
Just from the limited participation in this class I can say that people should embrace this change and figure out even more ways to use these tools.
Laura Johnston
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