After reading the report from eschool news, I saw several links between what we are studying in ENG 307 and the six emerging trends the article discusses. First, I saw a parallel between the user created content and the idea that students will all be teachers. We need to realize that students will need to kno how to create content in order to compete in the world market. I think that this article confirms the importance of promoting blogs, wikis, and other forms of user created content, so students can have an opportunity to experiment with it. Secondly, the article talks about social networking. I think that we need to promote this in our classrooms. We should have students exchange screennames so they can discuss material.
After reading this article I beagn to think about a discussion that we had several times in class about students who do not have access to technology. I think that this article shows that they will need to learn it to compete for jobs. Therefore, as educators we must promote these six things so students can become prepared.
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Bridget,
You raise a very good point. Students will need to learn how to use the internet so that they will be able to use it to find future employment.
More and more today, it is getting so employers are looking at on-line resumes and looking up websites, blogs, etc. that people have created.
In some respects this is scary, while in others it can be a very good thing, since it should be able to help employers find a potential new employee that has all the qualifications they are looking for.
Of course, this makes it much more competitive in the global job market, and this in turn means that we, as teachers, really have our work cut out for us. Preparing our students for the real world is going to be challenge and a half.
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