The World-wide Learning Community is Here, so Share Something with Them ;-)
In theory, anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world can look at your web site, your blog and…your ideas. Think about that!
Do you want to get some perspective on that thought?Well, Dr. Scott McLeod and Karl Fish have created a presentation that will show you how connected we are because of the Internet.
If you are at school, you will not be able to see this because it is hosted on You Tube – please watch it from a non-filtered internet connection.
This presentation can be scary if you let it, but it can also be exciting. We teachers have the potential to educate people we will never meet. We teachers can also pull in great lesson plans and web resources into our own teaching because the web makes it so easy.
In this trail, you are going to contribute to that learning community. by helping me curricularize web resources – from a New York State perspective at least – by bookmarking these resources using del.icio.us and sharing your thoughts about how to teach with them on your blog. The resources you bookmark will be organized on a wiki using dynamic del.icio.us links (this means that the web resource list will grow as you bookmark more sites).
I will reorganize this pool of resources according to New York State Standard and Performance indicators.
You will be able to access these organized resources when you leave the course and share them with your colleagues at school.
So, let’s get started by thinking about these questions:
- How do you share ideas, not necessarily web resources, with your colleagues now?
- How do you share web resources?
- How do you feel about being part of a world-wide learning community? What responsibility do you feel you have to your class, your colleagues in your school, your colleagues in the profession and students all over the world?
You can respond to any of the above by posting a comment. If you have any questions, please post a comment to this post. I will reply back – you can post anonymously or with a Nom de plume.
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July 17th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Being a teacher here in the US and being raised in my early years in Costa Rica Central America I have always known my place in the world as an active member. As an citizen, parent and educator in this world it is my responsibility to share and collaborate with all. This challenge to educate our young is a joint world struggle. We live on one planet and we are one race the HUMAN RACE.
October 18th, 2007 at 6:56 am
Ideas today are still shared widely by ‘hard copy’. Some ideas are shared through staff meetings. We still hand over a list of ‘favorite websites’ by hard copy. We all have a responsibility of the future. We as parents, educators, and bosses are not just raising future citizens of the 21st century to function within our own communities. We want them to advance not only nationally, but globally. This IS a global responsibility to take action, no matter how small, and make a difference. We are all in this together and should learn from each other and scaffold each other. Just because we are teachers doesn’t mean our learning has stopped…we still don’t have all the answers and probably never will. Not having the answer promotes incentive AND it’s okay that our students know we don’t always have the answer, this provides them with the example of wanting to achieve to be better by continuing to learn and advance.
October 18th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
As of right now alot of sharing of resources and ideas is done through e-mail. It is easy to input information and send it to multiple people at onetime. However i do feel that as an educator, it is not only your job to teach your 20 students per year, but to educate internationally. One of the best feelings is having a student tell an outside person or peer about what they learned from you, having the knowledge spread is not only heartfelt but it is the central point to becomming a facilitator of education. Being able to share information to anyone in the world is a powerful feeling, and it allows for one person to have a great deal of influence.
October 18th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
I am not currently employed in the teaching field. In my past experience as a Social Worker, we always gave out information through copies or at staff meetings. Since I have returned to school, I have been enlightened by all the material that can be found on the internet. I use starfall.com with my two year old daughter, which was introduced to me by a teacher in my field placement. Honestly, to me, being new to teaching, I find that web learning is a bit daunting. I am excited to have my fellow students share creditable web sites. Sometimes I am worried that the sites are not appropriate. When someone shares web resources that are legitimate, I feel relieved. It can be overwhelming, but at the same time, what a joy to live in this time. My responsibility lies in passing on information that has been thoroughly evaluated and found to be reliable.
October 21st, 2007 at 6:13 pm
I use the internet to communicate my ideas and resources. Through all of the classes I have taken while working towards my degree, the internet has been a requirement and has made those classes more beneficial. Using the internet allows a faster way of communication and a faster way of finding the answers to everyday questions. I feel that the internet itself is an beneficial educational resource.
November 6th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
I mainly communicate via email and if I have a link I want to share with someone, I email them. The internet can make things faster as well as slower.