Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Educational Blogging Comments


Technology has been improving and new things come for us every day like internet, wireless communication, games, etc. While I was reading this article, I was comparing the education at this time with the education I got in my country some years ago. It was totally different; first of all we don't have computers at those times. But, wait! I am not to old I'm just thirty.
Now I can see my kids surfing on the internet and I feel surprised, especially with my daughter Bryanna who is eight years old. The other day she was doing some power point in which she was putting the presents she wanted for her birthday, then she called us (her Parents) to see her job and guess what? She included pictures of all the items she put on her list with the prices, driving directions to the stores where we could find her items cheaper and the tax included.
Seriously, at this point in my life Power Point makes me crazy.

With this, I want to say that technology is getting small in the children’s minds at 2006. They are learning at faster steps and we can take advantage of those small brains by teaching them new things and exploit their knowledge. Sometimes we think because they are children the capacities are lower than ours, but it isn’t true. We have to be conscious that they are the future our future generation of doctors, professors, etc. We do not want mediocre minds governing our country. No way!

However, blogger is totally new for me, but I think this is amazing because on it you can express yourself, especially those who are shy to speak in public like me.
According to the article, blogger is controversial, but this is the main point of the page. The idea of this particular site is to generate different ideas and opinions to different things, an example given in the article is the 911 chaos because all the people had comments about it and the best way to express the pain was writing about it.

In the other hand is the technique of write responses on line with reference to a book reading in class. I think this is great because in one hour or two twenty five students cannot express their ideas or ask questions about x matter. Online everyone can write whatever they want without limited of time or just being embarrassed by others.

Blogger is for everyone who would like to communicate ideas; it has no limit of age, gender, or social class. The only thing is to know how to write something interesting for others.
Blogger itself has very easy ways to use and post ideas, it isn’t difficult to manage like other sites where you have to know about web design in order to post something. It can be used as an educational tool, especially in Health Education because we can use it to communicate others about health behaviors and how to prevent conditions. Unfortunately, some health conditions happen because of the disinformation, so we can educate others here.