Thursday, December 8, 2011
Use of blogs for a PLN
Using a blog as a Personal Learning Network will lend itself to text that allows the students to create more thinking about a topic or a passion. Blogs also allow a range of multimedia to be embedded in the post so that students have a variety of ways to express their ideas and their understanding of the world. I love the idea of following other students blogs, so that students can learn to reflect on others points of view.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
The New Digital Divide
The Digital Divide from east to South Dakota: Sunday 12/4 New York Times Opinion Article Reflects TET 732 Concerns
In the Sunday New York Times today there is an article on the opinion page titled The New Digital Divide by Susan Crawford. Looks like she is a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Interestingly, her article doesn't reflect an opinion served up through her specialized knowledge of law. Her opinion highlights the concern expressed by us in TET732 that not all students have access to high speed internet, or even computers for that matter.
Cyber Monday teaches about more than American spending habits
She introduces her opinion by stating the high dollar sales online on Cyber Monday - the online shopping version of Black Friday. 1.25 billion in online sales that day - far greater than the sales on Black Friday at brick and mortar stores. She then states, "Such numbers may seem proof that America is, indeed, online. But they mask an emerging division, one that has worrisome implications for our economy and society. Increasingly, we are a country in which only the urban and suburban well-off have truly high speed Internet access, while the rest - the poor and the working class - either cannot afford access or use restricted wireless access as their only connection to the Internet. As our jobs, entertainment, politics and even health care move online, millions are at risk of being left behind."
In the Sunday New York Times today there is an article on the opinion page titled The New Digital Divide by Susan Crawford. Looks like she is a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Interestingly, her article doesn't reflect an opinion served up through her specialized knowledge of law. Her opinion highlights the concern expressed by us in TET732 that not all students have access to high speed internet, or even computers for that matter.
Cyber Monday teaches about more than American spending habits
She introduces her opinion by stating the high dollar sales online on Cyber Monday - the online shopping version of Black Friday. 1.25 billion in online sales that day - far greater than the sales on Black Friday at brick and mortar stores. She then states, "Such numbers may seem proof that America is, indeed, online. But they mask an emerging division, one that has worrisome implications for our economy and society. Increasingly, we are a country in which only the urban and suburban well-off have truly high speed Internet access, while the rest - the poor and the working class - either cannot afford access or use restricted wireless access as their only connection to the Internet. As our jobs, entertainment, politics and even health care move online, millions are at risk of being left behind."
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