Learning+Community+Forum

I have no experience with Ning, I did just create an account but I need time to fully explore it. I attempted to look at Twitter but found it blocked. My current thoughts on twitter come from TV and what I have heard from students. Currently I see no value to twitter what-so-ever, why do I need to know every random thought that runs through someones head? I do use facebook at home, I see no educational value to it, but it is a good way to stay in touch with friends and family. I suppose this class is a global learning community. I have learned that many of the problems faced here in my classroom are faced in other schools and classrooms as well. This has been valuable because it does ease my mind to some small extent. I have also found a few ideas in this class that I will attempt to use in my classroom. Perhaps a wiki is a global learning community? If so I do use them in my classroom and find them to be somewhat beneficial at times. I do not foresee me using any of the social networking sites in my classroom. The students are social enough on their own time, my responsibility is to try to teach them something other than the current gossip.

[|Reply] Sheela got some help from a ning she belongs to but I wonder about the time to benefit ratio. It reminds me of mining for gold. How many hours do you have to stand in the frigid water to find that one nugget? How many sessions on the computer yield no nuggets? Just as you learned that local classrooms have the same problems, globally we are all dealing with the same problems. people are basically the same everywhere. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || Remember to just stay focused and shut down after a certain amount of time looking for something. But you also have to remember these sites aren't for everybody and if you don't see the value in something, dont' use it. My mom for example does absolutely nothing with the computer....and guess what, she loves it that way! She does not need all this socializing and networking with computers! It works for her! [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || I can see your point about the social networking, but isn't a part of this class saying that social networking is now or is going to be, an integral part of education once these technologies and applications catch on worldwide? It might just be current gossip now, but once curriculums are aligned, and everyone is doing the same thing at the same time............ [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || Wonderful idea Miltra, give us the standards and expectations for the year and leave it to the teacher to get there. I would like to find a teachers network for Biology Science teachers. This type of community may actually be useful for me, most of the ones I have looked at have very little of value for me. ||
 * [[image:http://moodle.iu9.org/pix/u/f2.png width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Mitch Scott" link="http://moodle.iu9.org/user/view.php?id=19657&course=1118"]] || Re: Global communities (to learn?)by [|Mitch Scott] - Sunday, April 11, 2010, 05:11 PM ||
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 * || I have a facebook account too, but rarely look at it let alone use it. I've had people get mad at me!! They add me as a friend and I either don't access the account to see that they have or just ignore the request, and people have approached me demanding to know why I don't want to be their friend on the page. I try to tell them that it's not personal, but it doesn't always work.
 * [[image:http://moodle.iu9.org/user/pix.php/19647/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Miltra Bressan" link="http://moodle.iu9.org/user/view.php?id=19647&course=1118"]] || Re: Global communities (to learn?)by [|Miltra Bressan] - Thursday, April 15, 2010, 10:32 PM ||
 * || Sounds like it would be a good thing but I personally think we'll lose a lot in education when it's all homoginized (where's that d...spell check???). There won't be any room to go off on a tangent or to move a group at a faster pace. For example, my class this year finished their math book near the end of February. They are now doing papers with mixed addition and subtraction (facts to 18), 35 problems to a page. If I was moving at a "normal" pace we would just now be doing the chapter on adding 0 and 1 to numbers 0 to 9 with 4 to 6 problems to a page. Think my kids would be being challenged??? I say give me the standards for the year and turn me loose! [|Show parent] | [|Reply] ||
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