Week 2 Reflection

Week 2 Reflection

(Anything in Italics was my discussion post, anything else in my reflection now)

I’m finding this course quiet interesting now. Many valuable points of discussion are being raised and I’m astonished at some of the responses my peers are supplying. I guess those responses are coming from wisdom as most of my peers have had a number of years in the teaching field. This goes to show that there is so much I can be learning but so little time to learn it.


My Main Discussion Post This Week

“When you really think about it, it is amazing how all these computers communicate with each other and thus allowing us to send information to another user nearly instantaneously. I’m one of those people who have grown up around computers my whole life (a digital native) so I often take for granted the technology advances that have made my life so much easier. I see many online bullies with the forums I visit. I particularly like visiting and posting on IMDB which is a movie database. Many people do tend to bully people especially if they are a “Noob” to that particular forum. I have no idea how people can act that way over such small problems or details and I have always wondered if those people act that way in real life. I never need bully or “flame” or act like a “troll” because that is not how I would act in person. I’ve spent days trying to think of which historical figure I would be and I have really come up with nothing. The closest person that has come to mind is Thomas Edison. I didn’t choose him because I thought I shared his intellect or even his fear of the dark, but rather because I felt that we shared the same determined will power to keep at a task until it is completed. I also feel we are both very creative people. I do think Edison would like the internet as he was so involved with new technologies that I’m sure he’d jump at the opportunity to try something new. He would get involved with everything online and would love Google. The use of online chat makes a huge ripple in the lake we call literacy. Students are exposed to new words, new abbreviations and even new ways to use existing words. These things than become a part of each child’s literacy and will start to be used in both online and offline communication. The use of online communication can have many advantages in the education system. The use of chat rooms and emails can make group tasks simple as no in person group contact is essential in comparison to the old ways of trying to get every member of a group in the same place at the same time.”

This post well received by the forum community and a large discussion with many excellent viewpoints was started from this post.

Jeorge