Blog Post #5

Our society is growing rapidly technology-wise. Now, most schools, if not all have use computers in their classrooms and teach new skills to younger and younger students. Web-based resources are extremely important for students. Using Word as a web-based resource is absolutely beneficial and crucial for a student to use when typing papers or even spreadsheets. Students using email to contact teachers is a great way to email assignments and to get caught up with the class. I also think that a web-based resource that is very beneficial for students are online classes. It really helps students who are busy and don't have time to attend class so they can sign up for online classes and do the work and get credit on their own time.

I believe that teachers monitoring their students using technology such as computers at a high school level should be encouraged. For a high school student, I could understand how having a computer in class can be a huge distraction. I believe that at this academic level, the teachers should monitor the students and teach them to use their time in class for classwork. However, I believe at the college level that their should be less monitoring. Computers could still be distracting for a college student, but at this particular level of academics, the student is entirely more responsible for paying attention in class to get them disciplined and prepared for their life after college.

New skills in which I have learned in the past week that will be beneficial for me in my future educational career is the web hunt and the inspiration idea mapping. Obtaining the web hunt skills will allow me to search topics a lot quicker and easier for when I am researching information for any class project or assignment. The idea mapping will also definitely help me in future classes because it will help me to put my ideas to my computer screen so I will have them right in front of me. This way I will be able to focus on other aspects of the particular assignment in order to complete it much more efficiently.