As we approach our third class meeting I’m afraid that I’m more lost than ever. In fact I hope this is the correct place to post this.
I have spent hours and hours looking over the i3cs2109 Wiki page and the exhaustive list of links, videos, and social networking sites associated with the class and I feel any digital foot prints I may have left have been washed away by my own inability to comprehend what it is I’m supposed to be doing.
Kim Cofino claims that being a 21st century learner can be difficult at first and she was right. I wonder how long it took her to be comfortable because I’m in need of an intervention to talk me out of resigning my teaching position. Unlike my students (and many other people), I am not in a state of continuous partial attention (CPA - as Linda Stone calls it). I do not feel the need to be connected via email, texting, cell phone, or computer to the rest of the world in order to stay informed on everything I’m not present to witness. I’m sure PLN’s are worth while but there must be any easier, idiot proof way to enter the 21st century.
I’m going to Amazon.com now to see if I can order a book to help me understand what I’m trying to do.
Thank you Dennis for helping me figure out what was preventing me from posting a new topic.
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Not all who wander are lost.
ReplyDelete- J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm imagining that when you started learning how to multiply or complete complex mathematical formulas, you might have felt a little lost. I think as teachers we sometimes expect to be experts immediately at what we attempt. So I'm giving myself permission to wander .... I hope you do too.
One digital foot step at a time my friend!
ReplyDeleteSergey Brin said ~ " Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. I think it is just confusing at times and mind blowing. Years from now I wonder if there will be classes on how to comunicate with people since that art is dwindling with the advances in technology. Not to worry, I am right there with you in the confusion department.
Henry David Thoreau
ReplyDeleteMay I go to my slumbers as expecting to arise to a new and more perfect day.
May I treat myself tenderly as I would treat the most innocent child whom I love; may I treat children and my friends as my newly discovered self.
Let me forever go in search of myself; never for a moment think that I have found myself....
Jeffrey S. Cramer, Editor. I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau. Yale University Press. New Haven. p. 77