Mod3-A8 Reflecting on Learning. I am beginning to feel more confident about this. I have used the internet for years and thought being able to text was a wonder for someone of my “maturity,” however, my eyes have been opened concerning the wide verity of technology available to my students and how it can be applied in the classroom. The Army JROTC program built our curriculum around computers and the internet but USACC did not dream of blogs and wikis etc. available now. What’s in the future? We know our students are technology oriented and we must use this to their advantage.

All this is overwhelming and leads to information overload or “brain brownout”. Like driving your car, texting on your cell and talking to the passenger; you can only actively concentrate on one thing with your conscience mind, everything else is shunted aside and managed by your sub-conscience. I am afraid that we can provide or expose our students to too much information and this will affect their decision making process and not make decisions or take action wanting all the information.

In class yesterday we say how there are different was for people to look at the same information and come up with a completely different slant based on their cultural inheritance (I’m talking about the web site on Dr. King). Textbooks and history have been written by the winners in the past, with the internet and new technology there will be many diverse and conflicting ideas floating around. Do we stop these ideas? Do we censor what our students see?

Where to from here? I’m glad I’m old, this is all getting too fast for me.