This week I have had a hard time coming up for air. I am spending so much more time on line yet I haven't written much about it. I am like a kid in a candy shop who cannot make up her mind about what to choose. There are just so many sites to see--so much information to sort through and organize. Widgets/gadgets, videos, blogs,tweets, wikis, google alerts, RSS feeds...two hours pass and I find I am watching videos of Pekingnese dogs on utube.
I realize students will need much guidance to stay focused when they scan sites to compile information for research. I think Richardson makes a point about the different types of reading we need to do when online and off. We need to teach our students to discern what is significant and what is random...I mean we wouldn't want them to end up looking at videos of Pekinese* :)
*I have a fondness for these little lion-like beasts and own a couple of them.
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