Journal #3

I think that in "repurposing" technology for the classroom, the teacher has to be selective in which application will compliment their lesson plan. Certain applications are more beneficial, and students can use technology to learn about a completely different subject. Blogs and wikis provide students a greater area to work, whereas Twitter limits the student to 140 word posts; it seems more thought and effort would go into Twittering than the Tweet.

Currently CNN is making their network more interactive by encorporating blogging, Facebook/Myspace, and Twitter to their daily programming; while it encourages the viewer to contribute their opinions in an accessible way, their opinions then become the news. The same may be true of technology in the classrooms, where every student has the same expertise as the teacher. So there needs to be a sense of authorship, for every student to take pride in their work, but their must also be structures in place where they acknowledge the teacher's authorship of the lesson plan.