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You will notice there is a navigation box to the right-hand side of this wiki. Please read the Wiki, Blog and Delicious Account Links page by clicking on the link in the navigation box. Then, proceed to your weekly discussion topic!-Week 8: Is Education Technology Shortening Student Attention Span?Week 8: Is Education Technology Shortening Student Attention Span?
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Educational Technology, used the right way, can only expand the interest of our students within their school experience. Students' attention span may have already been shortened by their extra-curricular activities such as video and computer games at home. Technology used in the classroom for educational purposes is a tool that educators use in order to keep up with this tech-savvy generation. Students are being expected to be able to do many of the activities that we as graduate students are just practicing and learning. Colleges are looking for students that have these skills already. Students who have experienced technology throughout their grade-level school years are more apt to be comfortable with working with it or going into a technological occupation. Many educators have found that the reverse could be true about students' attention spans, actually many of the students who many have short attention spans tend to expand them when technology is used because the simple teacher lecture-student listen is too slow for these technology-minded students.
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Chatspeak has become a vital form of communication for this tech-savvy generation. It is always good to have some kind of shorthand when taking notes, especially with a fast speaking professor or teacher, but as a type of writing it is not acceptable. It is very important for our students to be able to communicate face-to-face with complete sentences and thoughts, Chatspeak just allows for those communications to not happen. Employers like having tech-savvy employees, but it is also important to them that they also have strong verbal and written communication skills. Students today want to believe that they know how to write and don't need to be constantly taught over and over again how to write but as long as they believe that Chatspeak is the best way to get there thoughts out there educators will continue to instruct them the other way. Students need to be able to have a complete thought that makes sense and also be able to write it down for others to read and understand. If they continue to work in Chatspeak their ideas may get lost in translation.
You will notice there is a navigation box to the right-hand side of this wiki. Please read the Wiki, Blog and Delicious Account Links page by clicking on the link in the navigation box. Then, proceed to your weekly discussion topic!-Week 8: Is Education Technology Shortening Student Attention Span?Week 8: Is Education Technology Shortening Student Attention Span?
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Free tools actual come with a price, just not one that is of a financial amount. As much as educators and administrators would like for "free" software, apps, and programs to be available for their districts due to budgeting needs, these services are limiting and many times there is a pull to pay for upgrades or extended services that make the program better. Many times the reason programmers can offer their products for "free" is because of the many advertisements that surround the program pay for it. But these distractions can cause some attention difficulties for our students. Also, depending on the type of advertisements or needs of the programs to run school filters are catching and not allowing for anyone to use the product. Another difficulty in trusting in and basing lessons on "free" sites does not mean they will be there in the morning. As Shay stated many of these sites can be considered "one-hit wonders" (Shay, 2008). We, as educators, can completely change our curriculum or even simply a lesson to be used with certain "free" resources and then we cannot find them again the next day because the site wasn't popular enough to stay or it was just in beta-testing. Though there are many complications that come with focusing on "free" tools, that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be tested it just means that people need to do their research and remember that they are tools and resources not our curriculum.
You will notice there is a navigation box to the right-hand side of this wiki. Please read the Wiki, Blog and Delicious Account Links page by clicking on the link in the navigation box. Then, proceed to your weekly discussion topic!-Week 7: Is Chat Speak Destroying English?Week 7: Is Chat Speak Destroying English?
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Chatspeak has become a vital form of communication for this tech-savvy generation. It is always good to have some kind of shorthand when taking notes, especially with a fast speaking professor or teacher, but as a type of writing it is not acceptable. It is very important for our students to be able to communicate face-to-face with complete sentences and thoughts, Chatspeak just allows for those communications to not happen. Employers like having tech-savvy employees, but it is also important to them that they also have strong verbal and written communication skills. Students today want to believe that they know how to write and don't need to be constantly taught over and over again how to write but as long as they believe that Chatspeak is the best way to get there thoughts out there educators will continue to instruct them the other way. Students need to be able to have a complete thought that makes sense and also be able to write it down for others to read and understand. If they continue to work in Chatspeak their ideas may get lost in translation.
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