C4T #1 summary

I was asked to comment on Jabiz Raisdana's blogs.
  The first blog i found and read posed the question "Could you evaluate a school's committment to and success with technology by the number of teachers they have on twitter?" He found that "Most people responded that they did not feel that the number of Tweeting teachers had any correlation to a schools commitment to technology, because many people simply use Twitter to waste time." But i personally think that he has a bigger point than it just being twitter. Its more about using twitter as a reference to teachers using technology and all sorts of online work and social networks. I commented that i liked the idea of teachers implementing more technology and using more social networks in their lives as teachers. I told him how at school here these days if you look on most teachers syllabus it says contact me and by that it says by phone, by email, and by twitter and facebook too! I think that it is a good thing that teachers are using these networks because i look at it as a way for teachers to stay connected to their students even after class time is over.

  The second blog was called "School should not be considered work." In this he took a students blog and pulled out some of her comments from the blog and explained how she was trying to make school into work when it should be more like a place where you come to find out what you love to learn. I agree with this and as his post went on her comments slowly began to come around to more of an open mind to looking at school a completely different way. I commented on how it is necessary for us students sometimes to hear such honesty so that we may expand our minds to thinking other ways and not just have a closed mind or biased opinion on something. In his post he really showed that he cared by trying to open his students minds to critically thinking at an early age in an effort to help them to succeed in education.