My Personal Learning Networks

Should schools supply computers to all students?

This is an interesting notion. I think the idea is attractive; every student having his or her own laptop for every day of the school year. However, I think there is a disadvantage to this considering the price of computers and the level of responsibility. For example, I, as a teacher, would not particularly want to trust every 5th grade student with a computer to take home.
   Therefore, I do not think it would be wise to supply the schools with computers to all students. I would sooner set an age/grade limit for this to occur.

Stewards of the Garden

I recently read over the Online Conference of 2010, and I was struck most by one specific analogy posed by Wesley Fryer. His analogy was incorporated in summing up a key point of the conference: That we, as educators, could be utilizing and cultivating this "internet garden" rather than passively sticking to older methods of education. We are pioneers that can now move into a fertile landscape, establish land markers and leave a mark on the rest of this online territory.
   It is a great opportunity to work the ecosystem; we should not pass by. We should land, plant and grow.
We should make ourselves cultivators.

A podcast to the Parents

Listen up! its fun and easier than you think!

Grace's phlog - 1st phonecast.mp3