Led by Facebook, Twitter, Global Time Spent on Social Media Sites up 82% Year over Year | Nielsen Wire
A few interesting stats:
- An 82% increase in social networking sites in December 2009 from the same time in the previous year.
- Globally, social networking sites and blogs are the most popular online catagory
- Globally, time spent on Facebook averages 6 hours per month.
With statistics like these, the demand and the need for proper education on social networking sites can not be denied.
Household Use of Information Technology
Statistics from the ABS:
-shows an increase in internet usage over the years
-shows that 79% of children aged 5-14 years use the internet- im not neccesaarily surprised but that is a huge number
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Showing posts with label Entry Three. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Entry Three - So who is the teacher?
http://www.eden-online.org/papers/jenkins.pdf
In this entry I am looking at the role the teacher plays since integrating ICT into the classrooms.
The source is slightly old (1999) but I found it an interesting and inviting read. Plus its points are still relevant to today.
The source discusses that ICT has significantly changed the teacher's role but by no means has lessened it.
Ict is a valuable tool that can encourages learning. However some of the changes are a cause for concern, for example the impact on teachers. Are the teachers comfortable changing their role from being a projector of information to simply supporting learning?
I know myself, a young woman who been using technology everyday for as long as I can remember would feel well out of my comfort zone using ICT in the classroom (at this stage), so I can easily see that an older generation of teachers may find it difficult to learn to integrate ICT into the classroom, particularly if they are technologically challenged, or have strong pedagogical beliefs about teaching. To me the solution to this is educating the educators about the benefits of integrating ICT and allowing them to learn the technology. This then leads us back to the Digital Education Revolution policy that enables professional development for teachers.
Jenkins, J. Teaching For Tomorrow. The Changing Role Of Teachers in the Connected Classroom. (accessed 29/06/2010) from http://www.eden-online.org/papers/jenkins.pdf
In this entry I am looking at the role the teacher plays since integrating ICT into the classrooms.
The source is slightly old (1999) but I found it an interesting and inviting read. Plus its points are still relevant to today.
The source discusses that ICT has significantly changed the teacher's role but by no means has lessened it.
Ict is a valuable tool that can encourages learning. However some of the changes are a cause for concern, for example the impact on teachers. Are the teachers comfortable changing their role from being a projector of information to simply supporting learning?
I know myself, a young woman who been using technology everyday for as long as I can remember would feel well out of my comfort zone using ICT in the classroom (at this stage), so I can easily see that an older generation of teachers may find it difficult to learn to integrate ICT into the classroom, particularly if they are technologically challenged, or have strong pedagogical beliefs about teaching. To me the solution to this is educating the educators about the benefits of integrating ICT and allowing them to learn the technology. This then leads us back to the Digital Education Revolution policy that enables professional development for teachers.
Jenkins, J. Teaching For Tomorrow. The Changing Role Of Teachers in the Connected Classroom. (accessed 29/06/2010) from http://www.eden-online.org/papers/jenkins.pdf
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