<Social Bookmarking> What value (if any) do you
think social bookmarking might hold for teachers and/or students? You may think
about students sharing with each other, teachers sharing with their students,
teachers sharing with other teachers, administrators sharing with teachers,
sharing with parents, or any other scenario(s) you can imagine.
The most excellent part of Social Bookmarking is bookmarked WebPages
are not tied in only a computer. Usually, we can bookmark our own favorite
pages in a bookmark toolbar on our own computers for checking them easily and
quickly for just ourselves. However, we can share pages that we often connect
or are appropriate for some objects to everyone if we use Social Bookmarking, as
we know. If I think about this point, there are valuable ways to useful this. It
means we can make some kind of connections like teacher-teacher,
teacher-students, student-student, and teacher-parents via this. For example, teachers
don’t have enough time to share each other’s happenings in classes, students’
situations, and class environments. Also, parents want to know the school lives
of their children. So, first of all, the class teachers set up their own class
homepages. Then, if all teachers and parents set up Social Bookmark, add the
all class homepages, and tag each page as the name of schools, teachers can
know each class situation easily by clicking the website and parents can
understand what kinds of teachers work for the school even if they are not
their own children’s class teachers. Also, parents can have expectation for the
coming years for their own children. Moreover, in Japan,
teachers publish class newspapers about once in a week, though teachers can’t
hear the readers’ opinions. Just they finished publishing them. If they use this,
they can communicate with them in a blog easily at the same time.
I guess it triggers the situations that schools, teachers,
and parents become much closer and parents might have more credibility to the
schools and teachers. However, RSS system in Google Reader seems to be much
easier to find new posts, I guess. But, Social Bookmarking is easier to see the
each page individually and organizing the added WebPages by themselves.
Here is my Delicious page.
<Trends &
Issues reading> What degree do the definitions in this chapter correspond
with what you have thought about this area and what it is you hope to do in
your line of work (or in a future career)? Does is there anything surprising or
very new you read in this chapter? Does something seem to be missing?
Actually, I knew the specific definition of Educational
Technology hasn’t decided even now. Both of technology and education have
changed in every generation. I’m not sure what are the right definition and
ideas for this area, though every book involved in Educational Technology that
I have read are written based on the idea that interaction between learners and
collaboration study are necessary for improve their own motivation and make
appropriate environment. Since I started studying about basic ideas and
philosophy on Educational Technology, I have believed the philosophy of
Vygotsky, L.S, Social Constructivism, which focus mainly cooperation and
communication study among peers. Also, learners need to cultivate
problem-solving skills, thinking skills, critical skills, describing skills,
and more for learning to fit into society. So, I like to integrate technology
into classes based on ideas involved in the definition after 1994, in Trends
and Issues, that had appeared over the past long years piling up the
observation and examinations. According to the result of my research papers
that I wrote when graduated from University, it’s clear that we need to
integrate technology into classes with textbooks depending on situations. I
mean teachers need to care about each learner’s situation, each environment in
the classes, and learners’ reactions, and then make use of appropriate
technology paying attention the timing of the integrating.
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