Throughout the course I have been visiting classmates' blogs and making comments on their various blog postings. This experience has been valuable for witnessing the sheer abundance of diversity in self-expression that was shown through my classmates' blogs. I loved how the postings nudged us all to be reflective and share personal insights and confusion. I found myself relating to many entries on both of these fronts.
From my experience reading others' blogs I have a sense that most graduate students in the course are open to using technology in their future classrooms. They also seem to value the various Web 2.0 tools that we learned about during the course. It is interesting to see a progression of openness to using technology in classrooms reflected in the sequence of blog responses. Most peoples' postings started out with a hesitant and cautious attitude towards technology and progressed to an open, more confident attitude.
Lastly, I share in the pride that most classmates seem to be feeling around having successfully used various Web 2.0 tools. Congratulations everyone for working hard and learning to become 21st-century-learning savvy!!!
Hey Tara! I noticed the same in graduate students my only fear though is that when getting into the classroom, many new teachers will be frightened by others that tell them they don't have time to include much technology. Those people don't realize that technology is simple and so easy to use nowadays. But anyway, I am happy to see that more and more people are willing to compromise their comfort level of "regular curriculum" to keep the everyone in the 21st century. :)
ReplyDeleteGood Luck with everything!