Ms. Hyland's Blog: Age and Internet Use

Ms. Hyland's Blog: Age and Internet Use: "As one who is in the youngest and 'dumbest' age group in this article, I should be offended. But I'm not. I completely agree wit..." Thank you for not being offended. I agree that a lot of young people are just naive and uninformed about posting personal information on the internet. As I stated before, a lot of young people do not know the damage that can be done by listing personal information. Since I am one othe millennials, I do have friends and lots of things to talk about on line. The only problem is that I do not have a lot of time to put it on there. I would still rather talk to a real person. Also, I have never been much of a writer. I do think that it is true what you said that most older people have already had experience with publishing personal information or know of someone who has and know what can happen if it is in the hands of the wrong person.

Katie's Blog: Social Networks: Useful or Useless?

Katie's Blog: Social Networks: Useful or Useless?: "The assignment was to read Dvorak's response to the Pew data and address our reaction to his posting. OK, I had a few problems with this ..." Thank you for your comment. I, too, think that a lot of young people are not aware of how damaging the internet can be. Maybe parents hand their child a computer, but do not train them on it, as to how to use it and what websites are not safe and what information should not be revealed on the internet. A lot of older people, such as myself, are trying to keep up and probably have had bad experiences already in life with giving out private information to the public. Once again this is a survey. If this survey was given somewhere else, the outcome my be different. Mr. Dvorak could be quoted, but I think everyone if aware of this is only one survey.

Katie's Blog: Social Networks: Useful or Useless?

Katie's Blog: Social Networks: Useful or Useless?: "The assignment was to read Dvorak's response to the Pew data and address our reaction to his posting. OK, I had a few problems with this ..." I do agree with you about Dvorak's article in that a lot of young people do not have any sense when it comes to posting things on the internet. It is true that because of a younger age these young adults do not have jobs and have more time to be on the internet and let their thoughts run wild. Because of being older, I probably am too over cautious when it comes to putting any personal information on the internet. However, I did think that Dvorak had a good point in that a few years from now the younger ones could conduct the same survey and the numbers would be different. When you think about that most of the younger ones have grown up now with technology and the older ones are just figuring things out.

Survey

Concerning the article about a graph for usage of the internet according to age.  To some degree I agree with the author.  This really does seem like a maturity chart.  Older adults are using the internet, but are more discreet in what they write.  The younger generation does use technology more because they are growing up with it.  My husband and I can remember the first personal computer.  And now we have I pads.  My grand daughter who is three years old plays games on her mom's I phone.  What a change!  Have we come a long way or what!  I do agree that a lot of younger people are not to smart with what they post or send through the wire.  In a couple of years when they have matured they will probably do another survey with a lot of the same results.  The only difference is like the author said and that is they will be the ones who have matured. 

Emily's 5513 Blog: Novel classroom technologies

Emily's 5513 Blog: Novel classroom technologies: "Question from Dr. Terri: Go online and find a novel use of a new technology for the classroom. A repurposing of an existing technology..."

technology in the classroom

One of the things that caught my eye about technology is something that has been talked about at my school.  And that is going paperless in the classroom.  This sounds really great.  However, how are you going to assess and what about grades?  I use my smartboard and elmo in the classroom alot.  I know for assessments that you could use the computers, but do all schools have enough computers to do this?  A lot of colleges are posting everything on line.  We have a computer set up at our school just for parents.  Surveys, regristration for seminars and activities are done on line now.