Session 7

I think that bits and pieces of the Ed Norman Syndrome still exists in the educational realm today. I don't think there is one school district that would give all employees free run with technology. At our site you are able to access the Internet but it allows only access to certain sites that don't have sexual content or violence (there is a short list of words that filters the sites). Teachers have email account through the district but the students do not. In our area though the probability that a majority of parents have the Internet at home is very small. I think that blocking certain sites because of its content is actually good in this era. There is ton of inappropriate material on the Internet that children cold access. I have never had a problem showing certain sites with my lessons and I think it provides the students with extra guidance while they are online. As for email accounts the teachers have them but a majority of us have accounts outside of work so they do not get checked that much as site administrators would help. I try to check mine weekly but sometimes it slips my mind. I could see creating student email accounts for the class if they were going to be used within the classroom maybe for gathering information for papers or for pen pals but teaching kindergarten I can not see email accounts being beneficial to the students because they are so young and learning their basic information.

Weekly Activity: This week I finished my podcast 1 for my project 2. I started creating my materials for my podcast 2 and will finish it whn I return home next week.