I Am In The Current ~ The stream is digital.

In one of my classes, two students were upset about what one had said about them on Facebook over the weekend. These two students are obviously well versed with basic social networking but lacking in their understanding of digital citizenship. The Facebook insult spilled over beyond the digital network into their physical network- the classroom. We had a talk about digital citizenship, and best uses of time and energy online and in public. I’m sure this won’t be the last of their bumps along the way as they continue to develop their digital citizenship and shape their online behavior. Today when checking out a video of awilhelmscream Youtube video (be advised this video has objectionable language and this is me formally warning you!) I noticed that someone had posted a comment about one of my videos. Here’s what I found:

The comment made me laugh pretty hard. Good burn masterofhimself. I admit the video is pretty dorky. Also, might I add that it has brought me no murmurs of getting the online teaching job I had hoped to get. The above mention of the relevance of digital citizenship remains valid.

Sorry about the lack of updates on this blog. The house insurance stuff is slowly crawling along and it chews up every available moment. More to come.

ps. Have you checked out Monsoon House? Best radio show EVER!

Someone sent me this link today. It has a simple presentation however the narration and monologue structure is very interesting.

Earlier today, @mscofino posted this twitt.

People are starting to aknoledge the fact that we are educating and training people for jobs that don’t exist. How can we be sure that we are teaching the “right” things?

I firmly believe that schools help build the core competencies that enable people to be successful later in life. This is the question: What are the tools that are going to enable people to be successful tomorrow? What about a year from now? Are schools going to help students learn to use the tools that they will need to be successful?

To think that a 2 year-old has already developed the basic skills to manipulate this device is not surprising. Children and people learn from manipulating and building an understanding of how things “work”.

In Canada we do not even have the network capabilities for iPhones.

I would love to read your thoughts about the youtube video and this topic in general!