Thursday, September 27, 2012

In Your Own Words: Digital Literacy





1.      1.  I believe that the lower level schools (elementary, middle and high school) didn’t do enough to prepare us for college technology. The jump from high school to college is far too great. In high school, teachers have you turn in all your work in person. In college, all the papers need to be turned online to even be considered acceptable.  If I were to send an e-mail, I would say that every class needs to at least introduce some online participation grade. Kids in high school need to learn how to do things via internet compared to printed out papers. 

2.       2.  The career field that I am in right now is Math & Science Undecided.  Technology is really important to science because scientists do a lot of experiments and such involving technology. If there was no technology, science would almost cease to exist. At this rate, Oakland will overall do a good job preparing me for my career field. 

3.       3.  I would say I write better in a blog because I feel I have more freedom. Usually, blogs are shorter than essays. I’m better at one page of really good information than dragging out a 4 page paper. 

4.       4.  If I were a teacher, I would attempt to do more activities online. The world we live in has become much more technologically based. Young kids need to learn how to use all this new technology without becoming an addict to it. 

5.       5.  In her writing, she says “we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist.” In those words, they are the most brilliant said words I have ever heard on this topic. If, and it is, the world is really changing, we need to prepare our students differently. School systems are sending off way too many unprepared students.  

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