Education by Educators for Educators

After several of my classmates made presentations on various ICT topics i'd like to make some observations and let my opinion be know (i know, blog, kinda the point) about some of the subjects. If i don't mention yours it's not because i didn't find it a good presentation but simply because I hold stronger opinions about certain subjects more than others.

One I found particularly interesting was Tim and Shaun's review of different personal ICT devices and their potential to be used in the classroom. One thing i do think warranted a little more attention is the potential of the netbook (the mini laptop if you will) these devices are commonly available for as little as $199.99 and do everything that a laptop can do other than read or burn disks, with the cloud and flash drives students rarely have to deal with disks anymore. With cost and portability being two of the main downsides to a laptop the netbook seems to be the ideal. The netbook is much smaller and lighter as well as being half the cost of an entry level laptop. With all the same abilities and excelling where the laptop was weak it would seem to to be the ideal platform for schools and students.

For Jesse, Matteo, Andrew and Tim's presentation I feel it is very important that we demonstrate to our students the Good, Bad and Ugly sides of the internet. We must show them not just good and bad sources for research on the internet that they may use for projects for us but we must also show them for the sake of the students being responsible online citizens. We want to keep them responsible on the web so that their digital footprint doesn't leave a stain on the rug.