The Read/ Write Web: Interesting stuff!

This week I enjoyed reading Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms Chapter 1 over the Lankshear/Knobel article. I found many things interesting and a lot of what the author states, I believe to be true too.

*It mentions how the Merriam-Webster dictionary added the word Weblog to the dictionary in 2004. I think that is pretty funny!

*It also talks about how we need to teach the kids that you cannot trust everything on the internet since anyone can publish stuff to the web. Whenever I talk with my kids about the internet, doing any research even buying something on the internet, I explain to them that you need to be very CAREFUL! We even read a story in ILA that teaches them about this.

*The book also says that schools have been slower to using the Read/ Write Web in the classroom. I think that the schools are hesitant to using more of this because of security and safety issues. Because of what the future holds with technology, we are doing a disservice to our kids not incorporating more of this into our teaching.

*I liked how they called the students of today and the future, "Digital Natives" and many of the teachers of today are considered "Digital Immigrants" because they were not brought up in this digital age.

These are just a few points that I enjoyed from this week's readings.