Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Additional Assignment #1

Pitcairn Islands
After using both of these new search engines I feel they provide a much easier way to find information than just Google or Bing. They give a detailed description of what you are looking for. I looked up universities in the state of Alabama and it came up with every college plus some I did not need and there enrollment. Both seem to me that hey would be a lot easier ans a lot more helpful for younger children to use due to the fact it is a lot more simple. On WolframAlpha it even gives a map with the location of the schools. I did not know about either of these search engines until I was given this assignment. I Will use these more often due to the fact they are a lot simpler than what I normally use. I just believe this would be a lot easier for smaller children. I did like Google squared alot better it seemed much simpler and had more results and you could add to them to. After reading the stable boy and the iPad it truly made me think about how much I did not know. Several of my friends have iPhones and I still don't know how to use them. If a six year old illiterate boy could uses the iPad without problems I have defiantly fallen short of the bar in my technological learning.

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  1. Don't feel bad about not knowing about certain "tools." I am a middle school technology teacher and I did not know about any of the on-line tools available until December 2008 even though I had been teaching the class for years.

    Here is a fascinating video about how children can figure out technology and learn on their own
    http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html

    Check it out!

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