Reflection #2

We live in a world filled with technology that improves every day. The population of the world who are young children up to young adults, are used to living their lives with technology. Most sixteen year olds in the world today, could not imagine their life without a cell phone, a facebook account, instant messaging, i-pods, etc. I know this to be true, because I am only eighteen, and growing up my world was filled with technology.

As a teacher, I will use these communication tools to communicate with my students, students' parents, and colleaugues. It is a very fast and productive way to communicate. Most children will go home after school, grap a quick snack, and go directly to their computer. They will check their facebook account, email account, instant messaging, etc. As a teacher, I can log on to my accounts after school, and I am able to communicate with most of my students. It is also a very fast way to ask my students' parents and colleaugues questions. They are able to respond faster through the internet accounts, rather if I wrote them a letter, or even called and left them a message.

In some cases, a communication/ social networking tool, is not always the best option. Some people may not have access to the internet, so calling them would be a better way to communicate. Older generations also may lack the skills needed to use these tools. They would not be able to communicate because they would not know what they were doing. In a few situations it is not a good idea, but overall I think it is a great way to communicate.

I enjoyed the short video, Introducing Web 2.0. I learned a lot in just a couple of minutes. I think this video should be shown to every educator. It showed a lot of resources you can go to on the internet, and use for many different reasons. I never knew there were so many resources for different things. I am glad I watched this, and the knowledge I gained will be very useful.