<div dir="ltr"><div>David and all,</div>
<div>1. We should definitely be teaching how to find and judge information -- and not just on the internet! This is a critical thinking skill that people need in their lives, especially in this election year when so much fluff and outright falsehood will be out there.</div>
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<div>2. Of couse we should be teaching navigation, and of course many of our students know how to do it better than we. They are younger! My son recently got an Iphone, and I am amazed at what he can do with it.</div>
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<div>3. Helpful hints -- Larry Ferlazzo's website has many links to browsers for ELLs as well as everything else that appears on the web. My students tend to be ELL, so I may end up using one of the visual browsers myself.</div>
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<div>4. As David knows, I am a strong proponent of multiple intelligences. However, I don't think that in our limited time with our students we can actually teach them, in the sense of helping people improve in weak areas. Teach <strong>about</strong> them, yes, honor them ourselves and give students ways of using them to learn, definitely. </div>
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<div>My 2 cents,</div>
<div>Wendy Quinones<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:15 PM, David J. Rosen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djrosen@comcast.net">djrosen@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Technology Colleagues,<br><br>There have been many interesting responses to my post yesterday, but<br>so far no one has yet responded to my questions:<br>
<br>1) Should we be teaching how to find and judge information?<br>2) ...how to navigate efficiently and effectively?<br> a) Do some of our students already do this better than we do?<br> b) Should we be learning navigation skills together with them?<br>
3) Are there some helpful hints that we should be teaching for Web<br>page navigation?<br> a) If so what are they?<br>4) Should we be teaching visual, musical, social and kinaesthetic<br>intelligences, or at least honoring them?<br>
<br>I hope some of you have some answers, and some experience with<br>teaching how to find/judge information online and how to navigate<br>well. If so, can you share some helpful hints?<br><br>David J. Rosen<br><a href="mailto:djrosen@comcast.net">djrosen@comcast.net</a><br>
<br>On Sep 1, 2008, at 1:01 PM, David J. Rosen wrote:<br><br>> Technology colleagues,<br>><br>> This article from South Africa's The Times, Newspapers have a<br>> future if they start thinking, has got me thinking. The author,<br>
> Ray Hartley, the paper's editor, quotes John Seely Brown, the Chief<br>> Scientist at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Brown has<br>> long be an innovative thinker. He says ""The typewriter prized one<br>
> particular kind of intelligence, but with the web, we suddenly have<br>> a medium that honours multiple forms of intelligence - abstract,<br>> textual, visual, musical, social and kinaesthetic."<br>><br>> He adds: "People my age tend to think that kids who are<br>
> multiprocessing can't be concentrating. That may not be true.<br>> Indeed, one of the things we noticed is that the attention span of<br>> the teens at PARC - often between 30 seconds and five minutes -<br>> parallels that of top managers, who operate in a world of fast<br>
> context-switching. So the short attention spans of today's kids may<br>> turn out to be far from dysfunctional for future work worlds."<br>><br>> Brown says: "The new literacy, beyond text and image, is one of<br>
> information navigation. The real literacy of tomorrow entails the<br>> ability to be your own personal reference librarian - to know how<br>> to navigate through confusing, complex information spaces and feel<br>
> comfortable doing so. 'Navigation' may well be the main form of<br>> literacy for the 21st century."<br>><br>> We know that "reading web pages" is different from reading hard<br>> copy. Web pages often lots of images, increasingly audio and video<br>
> files, as well as text. They also have links to navigate to -- and<br>> back from. Should we be teaching how to find and judge information,<br>> how to navigate efficiently and effectively? (Do some of our<br>> students already do this better than we do?) Should we be learning<br>
> this together with them? Are there some helpful hints that we<br>> should be teaching for Web page navigation? If so what are they?<br>><br>> Should we be teaching visual, musical, social and kinaesthetic<br>
> intelligences, or at least honoring them?<br>><br>> You'll find the article at:<br>> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5jdmzh" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/5jdmzh</a><br>><br>> David J. Rosen<br>> <a href="mailto:djrosen@comcast.net">djrosen@comcast.net</a><br>
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