I believe that education and technology are good together as long as we do not let our students abuse the technology in the classroom. We have to keep our students engaged in what we are trying to teach them. If learning isn't fun to the student they might not pay attention like they are supposed to. The author of Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants made plenty of statements that I agree with and the one that stood out to me was "students have changed radically." There is more technology around today than there has been in history. In today's society if you cannot use technology, you will be left behind, its plain and simple. It makes since to incorporate technology into education.
When it comes to the findings of concept mapping, I found my self not knowing what it was when I started the project. I had use technology like this before and did not know the name of the system I was using. When I started doing the project I came to find out that it was a bubble system pretty much and it was fun to create. This is something that can be used in the classroom when teaching students. I would love to give my students a topic and have them do a concept map for homework. It beats doing the traditional method(paper and pen) and I know they would enjoy the assignment, I did. It was very interesting
I am very confident in the in the information I have used in my college career when searching for data. I have always made sure that the sources I use are credible before putting them into my school work. When doing journal articles, if the article was not academic search complete, I would not use the article. Everything that comes from the Internet is not always right and we have to teach that to our students when we are in the classroom. If we fail to teach our students how to search for academic information they will use anything they come across on the Internet as a source in academic work. That is not the case once so ever, everything found on the Internet is not right or true. They need to have sources behind there work. Schools can block certain websites from being used when students are in school, but we have to incorporate the same websites at home. We as teachers cannot control what sites students use in their homes but we can suggest sites to the parents and let the parents guide the student with the activity assigned.
I think there are plenty of advantages to social bookmarking. Bookmarks are not shared, but they can be used a reference. Social bookmark sites enable a person to make any link public or private so that we can make a selection of our bookmarks available to each other. They are shared inside certain networks, so it keeps people you don't want in the network out of it. That's a pretty neat feature to me. The Internet can be a scary world with hackers in the world trying to corrupt certain things they come a cross on the web. Another advantage to bookmarking is the ability to access your saved sites on any computer you use. That is really important when it comes to school work. I have been a person that bookmarks for about a year and now and I have to say I love it. I have used the tool in the past for school work, when saving websites that I saw as important and will continue to do so while becoming a certified teacher and working on my Master's degree. I will also try to use the tool in the classroom, having websites available for my students when they need the Internet for research and teaching them how to bookmark, so they can access the sites from there home computers. If I promote websites then my students will use them and the same goes for my peers when I become a teacher. There might be certain sites that I use that can be passed on to my colleagues.
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