Sunday, February 8, 2009

Thing #5

Our assignment for Thing 5 was to set up a RSS reader.
I must say my favorite feed is Car Talk form NPR.

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510208

I try to listen to this show every Saturday but often miss it. With this feed I have an opportunity to catch those I miss.

I als0 have been checking out the feeds on infinitethinking.org

The following article. was particularly of interest to me.

http://www.infinitethinking.org/2009/02/lucy-and-lucies-friday-five-cellphones.html

We have to come to term with the fact that our students have more computing technology in there pockets than a major tier one research university had in their entire campus 30 years ago.

3 comments:

  1. What was it about the cell phone post that struck you?

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  2. In our district we take them away form kids in stead of trying to see how we could utilize the technology.

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  3. I have used cellphones as a quizdom like activity, the students soak it up. I occasionally tell them they could get their phones out to set reminders for tasks I give them when they get home.

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