week 3 R/D3-- social bookmarking

(R/D3):
1) What value (if any) do you think social bookmarking might hold for teachers and/or students? You may think about students sharing with each other, teachers sharing with their students, teachers sharing with other teachers, administrators sharing with teachers, sharing with parents, or any other scenario(s) you can imagine.

Bookmarking would have to have some sort of filter set up so that kids, or teachers, aren’t sharing inappropriate things. How would you police that? Kids are pretty smart/sneaky. Teachers sharing with students and parents is a great way to get kids to find out about some of the cool stuff that geeks us that we don’t have the time to discuss in class. Don’t we all want to excite our kids about our particular subject? I think with the proper controls bookmarking could work for all the above scenarios. What happens when parents and kids starting sharing with us???

2) Back to the Trends & Issues reading, to what degree do the definitions in this chapter correspond with what you have thought about this area and what it is you hope to do in your line of work (or in a future career)? Does is there anything surprising or very new you read in this chapter? Does something seem to be missing?

I chose this program to help ensure a job. Spanish is much more popular than French & German combined. I’m tired of going to school and not being able to use my degree(s). I think my idea of educational technology was more like the older view 1970 version, implementation of hard- and software to help with instruction. As the definitions show, IDT is constantly changing. I’m not sure what I’ll be doing when I finally finish my degree. Just about everything I read was new to me. The thing that surprised me was how much the authors talked about how psychology is related. Psych wasn’t one of my better subjects. I’m not sure if there is anything missing. I bet I could answer that better at the end of June.