Social Bookmarking/ Excel or Docs

1. Social bookmarking to me is a Internet resource that can be shared and a person can make bookmarks of websites that he or she likes and wants to share them with other people. Students and teachers a like would use social bookmarking to take a online practice test or for a online class in college. Students can use the social bookmarking sites to share their interests with other students. For example, the teacher can post a website that he or she wants to have their students take. All the students go to the teacher's diigo page (a social bookmarking site) and click on the website and take the test. Teachers can also post sites for specific projects that they gave to their students.
2. I am recently introduced to google docs, and I like using it. I would have to take the google docs side of this argument, because you can do a lot with it. I like how students and teachers can have a discussion about a problem that the student might be having and no one has to know. Google docs is also a great way to have several people answer a vocabulary list or write a group paper. There is more that google docs can do to help students and teachers in education today.

Excel Uses

1. Excel can be used for many different things besides graphs and sorting data. Students can use Excel to create a budget for a trip if they were going some where. For example, if the students were traveling across Europe they would put a country in cell 1A and go down from there. Then the student will out the amount of money they would like to spend in each country, budgeting the money equally to be careful not to go over the money they are taking with them in the last cell. 4B
2. Teachers can use Excel for a review game for a test. The teacher asks the question to the teachers and gives four answers A-D and the students can vote on their own computer (if accessible).1A
3. Teachers can use Excel to keep track of important dates such as birthdays. You are able to keep a column of every one's birthdays and you can sort by clicking on "sort ascending" and that will sort the birthdays by who's birthday is next. Instead of writing every one's birthday on the side of a refrigerator. 3C
4. You can keep track of you basketball or football statistics. You can keep track of these statistics on days on rainy days compared to days where it was sunny. You can do this by making two different columns of one that says rainy and the other says sunny. Each row has different statistics of tackles or for baseball hits or strikeouts. 1D
5. Lastly, you can keep inventory of the things you have in stock. You can keep track of the quantity and the items that you have in another column. Then when items are sold you can subtract a number of the quantity. 5B

Post 2

Technology has evoled over the time that I have been in school. The language the students use has changed since the last generation was in school. The language that students are using is changing for the good, because they are able to expand to who he or she is talking to. They can talk to people across the world about business and not spend the money to fly and talk face to face. In my own perspective the language the students use and the technology is the same. I agree with the readings and the video, because that is the way that I felt comfortable and helpful to study and get good grades. For me, I can only take in a little bit of information at a time and I wonder off to something else and come back to studying. A good example of the advancement in times is ths use of a debit card instead of checks and keeping a check book, which I was taught in high school but do not remember exactly how to keep it. The videos are right in that students nowadays are digital learners and spend most of their days at a computer, TV, or listening to music or books. The videos are right children need to be engaged to learn, that is why I agree with this video one hundred percent.

Post 1

The Digital Natives and the 21st Century Learners learn differently than what some of the teachers are teaching in todays classrooms. Students in schools nowadays are use to having internet at the touch of their fingers, whether it's on a computer, cell phone, or a laptop. Digital Natives are use to and can edit a paper on the computer, but they can't remember capitals because it is not taught in an interesting way. I agree with Marc Prensky when he talks about how Digital Immigrants do not believe their students can not learn a specific way, because he or she (Immigrants) can not. I agree that teachers have to adapt to the new times and become digital immigrants. The Immigrants are suppose to be there for the children and if adpting to the new times is what helps a students, then thats what needs to happen. The ideas of teachers adapting to the new style of learning is not obsurd, but is a great idea. I recently wrote a paper on how children use video games, computer games, and television to start their education. This has grown since before the start of the century. Children a playing on the computer or video games before he or she reaches kindergarten and they are picking up reading and learning their letters.