Article Reflections

One-to-one Tsunami
By: Pamela Livingston
from Technology and Learning

It talked about making laptops and computers one-to-one in each school for each student. There have been major waves of more and more schools committing to this every year. It helps in cutting time that would normally be spent gathering and organizing data, but the computers can do the same thing in much less time. There needs to be high-quality security standards so that no students are accessing Internet websites that are not appropriate or that are off-limits. I don't know how great the need is for one-to-one computers. I still think it is a luxury rather than a necessity.

Blogs are not the Enemy
By: Jeff Utecht
from Technology and Learning

This article talks about the benefits of blogging in the classroom and how it is different from simply writing a journal out on paper. As long as teachers bring back what is being said in the blogs into the classroom, then they are enhancing learning and a deeper understanding of others around us and how they live and think. The difference between blogging and writing in a journal is that other students are allowed to comment on their peers' writings. This causes more interaction to take place and emotional involvement in order to make deeper connections.