So today's post comes from a mobile phone. How awesome is that? I downloaded an app and boom here is a post. Today I saw an article, that I will post later, that mentioned the internet is 21 years old. Twenty-one is an important age for some. It affords a bit more responsibility to some but is typically when young adults are viewed as full fledged adults. The internet is old.
Just think back 21 years, the very first chat rooms and bulletin boards went live. It took several minutes to download anything. Files, speeches, articles, let alone a song or even a whole movie. A whole movie using dial up...to those of you we actually had use a phone line and sometimes phone. (Look up WarGames, Joshua, WOPR, etc.) This all meant being patient and having to wait. We learned that technology took time but we could have a lot of fun and it was a great and useful tool.
So fast forward to today. I posted this from my phone. Yeah. Ummm...think about that one. Today students have a need for instance access. If we were to show them an old dial up or even listen to the noise it made to get a small and slow data stream they would say, "really?"
So how will you, as a teacher, make sure that your student are using every bit of information available to them today?
Think about it...mobile phone post.
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