Technology can be very beneficial to educators. As discussed in this chapter, Twitter can be used to connect with other educators that you may have never met or will never meet and allows you to learn from them. We can learn what is working in their classrooms that we may be having problems with or cool lessons that they are teaching. Twitter is just one of the many social sites that can be used to connect to others.
Social bookmarking is something new to me, but I really enjoy using it now. Social bookmarking allows you to bookmark and tag sites you find useful so that you can access those sites from any computer. Unlike the traditional bookmarks on your home computer, you can access these bookmarks anywhere. The thing I like about this is that you can find sites with similar tags that other individuals have found helpful. There are so many websites out there that you may never discover, until now with the help of social bookmarking.
As a future teacher, I want to incorporate as technology into my classroom as possible. Young children today are more attuned to technology than anything else. They catch onto technology very quickly and enjoy being on the computer. Social bookmarking is a great way to help your students start researching a topic. As a class you can add links. I really like the idea in the book where he talks about tagging links that each student may like. So you would have a tag called “Meredith” with information you feel she would enjoy. I think students would love to see what their teacher finds for them and have their own personal library of information and sites.
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