Lesson Learned

There were a few things that stuck out to me as I watched the videos and read the articles that were assigned for our PDP. There are two things that I would like to talk about. The first topic that I would like to mention is summed up as the title of the Whatever, Whenever, Wherever article. Another summative word is ubiquitous as is stated in the first line of the "Why Integrate?" article. Technology could be considered the epitome of the word ubiquitous. It can be found anywhere and everywhere. This concept is demonstrated in the movie on Social Networking. They speak about how 94% of teens between the ages of 16 and 18 have a profile on one of the social networking tools (Facebook, and Myspace). In the movie "Did you Know" it mentioned that if myspace was it's own country, it would be the 8th largest in the world. Because there are so many people signed up for these social networking tools, we can connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime. I was suprised to see that these tools had replaced the Yearbook at some schools, but then how can you compete with free. In the beginning of "The New WWW" article, it seemed that the writer was speaking negatively about the ability that we and our children have to do whatever, wherever, whenever on the internet, but he then spoke of choices that we need to make as we use the internet and allow students to use technology. The idea of making proper technological choices will be important to teach students in an educational setting.

The second topic I would like to talk about is from the last movie that we watched that spoke about some of the recent technological developments. I was suprised to see that they are now trying to make a computer monitor much like a touch screen that you would see with an ipod touch or an iphone. We saw a photo editing program that you could touch the photos to enlarge and crop them. This seems to be a better simulation of an actual photo lab. I like some of these new developments as it has made computers more user friendly. I didn't like the idea that comcast has recently thought of to charge those that use the internet more money much like paying more if you use more water, gas, and etc. This seems to be too difficult to manage with the understanding that a lot of people use the internet at all times for their different daily rituals.