Learning at your service

Social networking has opened up many possibilities for education. You can share ideas, videos, pictures. You can comment on them and have others comment on yours. It connects us with people who have our same interests and ideas. Blogs enable us to post ideas and even create hyperlinks so the reader can delve further into the topic you are discussing. I really like this idea of hyperlinks. Some students may not understand fully what is being discussed and if they are able to use the links to get more information they are more likely to remember the topic and understand it fully. I also like the idea of using Skype to have a teacher or a person of interest from another country talk to students in the classroom. Collaborating and having discussions with people from another culture is amazing and there are endless rewards from this. Our students need to learn more about other cultures, not from a book, but experience it.