ICT in education

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg11DmYDCnU&feature=email

Digging for the meaning...?

So far I'v been mostly philosophic in my blog and I've tried to make head of this blogging thing... Now I geuss it's time to start thinking seriously about our task in ICT 103.

More and more information, less and less meaning... II

I so agree on your comment on my last post Beata. We do live in media/ICT times and maybe it is possible to enjoy it. That was kind of my intention with that post as well. Maybe facebook and other network societies are more than simple entertaining. As a teacher I think it's interesting to see how people communicate in 2010. Our daily work at school is very much about communicating, geeting in contact with our students, reach them on their level. To do that we need to take part and we need to understand how this "ICT world" works. To be abel to give the students advices and support we need to be on the inside.

A resource in our classroom is about Literacy, which is the ability to read and write. That is, of course, elementary knowledge also in 2010. But is it enough? I don't think so. To be a social human beeing existing in the 21.century you also need other elementary knowledge. We need to learn how to read and create multimodal texts, which speaks with a verbal, visual and audiovisal language. And at this point I'm inspired of Beatas slide show about "Introduction to the concept of new literacies".

The last question in this post is; where is the connection between facebook and the fact that I think there is a need for New Literacies ? And my answer is; It is all about the way we communicate in 2010!

More and more information, less and less meaning…

I’ve just been on Facebook getting today’s “news”. A relative is watching a movie while she is eating kebab. A friend from childhood has been out walking in the scary darkness. Someone is announcing a party with a local artist next weekend. My friend’s sister is bored. A girl I know has got the flu. A man is announcing his divorce. An old roommate from studies is celebrating her sons 5.birthday and another old friend is SO tired.

And I think (today again) SO GOOD TO KNOW!!!

Tomorrow, and the next day and the next day… I’ll log in again and read the same meaningless bullshit that I really don’t want to know.

The reason?

Well… Is it only simple entertaining and updating?

Nesna University College

This blog is a part of my participation in a course on Nesna University College called ICT in society and work life. Through this blog I’m going to reflect about how ICT influence the social life. I’ll blog about issues I think is controversial, issues I find interesting, problems I feel strongly about and topics that I think need discussion. The thematic areas are the information society, the information society culture, educational implications about ICT and ethics in ICT. Some of my posts will be created in English and some will be in my home language Norwegian. A post starting in English has to be commented in English.