Web 2.0 Educator

I chose to read several blog entries by Cool Cat Teacher Vicki Davis. Her specialty seems to be integrating technology into the classroom. In one blog entry, she discussed the ELearn's predictions for 2008, however, she noted there were no teachers included in their predictions, so she made her own, and posted them in her blog. "E-Learning will become an integral part of the face to face classroom with students learning to collaborate not only with their seatmate, but with teammates from around the world." She strongly supports technology integration, and is very knowledgeable in that area. She also, interestingly enough, discusses the importance of things like MySpace and Facebook, and I completely agree with her thoughts on technology. Vicki Davis feels that it is important to use things like blogging and IM regularly, but also to limit yourself, because there are some people out there with Internet addictions. She feels that staying in touch, and developing different tech skills are important, as someday all this will be integrated into the classroom. I agree, because, whether we want to accept it or not, we live in a technological era. Laptops are already being integrated into daily student life, and soon most assignments will be done online. So it is very important to stay technologically savvy, but also to create limits to make sure that it’s you who are controlling the computer, not the computer controlling you. Vicki Davis is a very knowledgeable resource on the subject of technology integration, and I definitely will look at more of her blog posts in the future.