Reader beware, this post is an experiment! While reading through
my daily dose of ed tech blogs, I came across what I feel is not
just a terribly ineffective use of technology for reinforcing
real, authentic learning experiences, but one that many teachers
today might think is a brilliant idea! I’ve seen it happening
more and more as school districts hop on the 21st century band
wagon (which isn’t that bad of a thing), and teachers try to
find ways to make learning, studying, and teaching more engaging
to students that are used to a always being connected. I don’t
want this post to come off as overly critical, so I’ll try to
frame my thoughts in a positive manner. The amount of tools that
we as educators have at our disposal today is overwhelming.
Every day it seems there’s an exponential growth of texting,
tweeting, social networking, and web 2.0 tools to help reinforce
teaching and learning strategies (which is a good thing!).
However, everyday it seems as though there’s an equally soaring
growth in the num