Blog Post 1

This is Jennifer Weeks again.
I found the bit on digital students vs conventional students pretty interesting. Being as I am fresh out of high school, I am a digital student. What was written in the small box on page 7 is fairly true. Most of my classmates fit that description as well. We all communicate in several different ways like text message, myspace (or facebook), blogs like this one, e-mail, and cell phone. As I am writing this, I am multitasking. My generation prefers to learn in about things that are interesting a relevant and would rather be taught in some creative manner than just listening to some drone on about the topic for an hour. I also found the ARCS model accurate as well. Overall, chapter 1 was rather boring. I know must of this stuff already albeit there were some stuff I didn't know totally about and the time line at the end was interesting.

As far as new skills I can't say that I picked up anything new skill wise. In high school, I took computer electronics and technology for 2 years. It was a class in which we would take a computer apart, totally gut it, then put it back together to where it will function properly. We also had to type up a program to re-format the hard drives then reinstall windows. We also did some stuff with resistors. With that kind of background... I can't say that I've learned any new skills. However, I do anticipate to become far more acquainted with MSExcell. :)

I do think as a teacher I will use quite a bit of technology in the classroom because I was raised with the computer in a sense. Because the teachers of tomorrow are so integrated with technology it will be easy to incorporate it into their teaching. It would be almost natural for them to use technology in the classroom because they use it for everything else in life.