Alright so for this post I am writing about this article, which is called "World Without Walls: Learning Well With Others". What a title. Such alliteration. Ok so basically the author of the article is saying that schools have to move on from the traditional ideas of teaching, and embrace the technological revolution to help teach. So using blogs for connecting outside the classroom, and Google Docs, and all those other great websites. I mean personally, I don't know why it's taken this long. Sharing websites have been around for a while, and it's a really great idea. For one thing, the school's are always saying that they're trying to use less paper, and yet they send home piles of it. And it's not like the internet is going to go away, so you might as well adapt to it. Adapt or die. Our school system is already not that great, but by not updating themselves they fall even further behind. So I think it's a good idea. Relating specifically to our class, I do think it's a good idea because we can post videos and talk to our change group members, and do all sorts of other useful things like that.

One of the points that the article made was that we're going to have to be more careful about where we get our information. Here is my direct quote yeah "We must also expand our ability to think critically about the deluge of information now being produced by millions of amateur authors without traditional editors and researchers as gatekeepers". I mean, we all pretty much know this. Our teachers have been telling us which websites to use for research and which ones not to use since middle school. But when you get into blogging, it's a little bit different. People talk about things that they don't actually know about, and say that they're things they're not. I dunno, I just feel like it's different because all the websites are pretty much in the same format, and you're basing you're judgement of whether to trust the information or not on what they're saying and nothing else. 

I didn't really like the way the author talked about kids and their dealings with the internet. Thats what surprised me. The way she wrote about it was like kids don't use the internet at all and we need to protect them from it. Which is totally not what actually happens. We little children know our way around the interweb pretty well, and we also know what counts as the creepy candy van on the internet. All those classes and super dramatic movies about kids being lured into getting into the creepy candy van taught us well.

Aaaalright I'm almost done the last thing I have to do is say what I think we should use our blogs to learn about. I would like to learn more about filming techniques. So I can make my videos look cool. Because whenever I try to film something, it looks really boring and bland and awful. So that is what I would like to learn about. Alright. The end.