PLN 12 semester 2

I read an article called "Phoning it in" on T Sale's blog where the author talked about how they had asked a question for the class and a student had used their iPhone to look up the answer. I had decided to blog about this because lately in my English class we have been discussing the new technology we have and how and when we could use it at school. I am fortunate to be in a class that uses laptops and have gotten used to the fact that we type up almost everything we turn in. We have also used new programs on the web for projects such as Voicethread, Moviemaker, Wiki, and others. Using computers is not only fun, but it is also a way to become involved with everybody else using computers. Just like these blogs, we are able to read other people's work and have them read ours. There are other hot spots for kids like us that can give us a chance to make friends on the Internet like Myspace and Facebook. But the question is, as the technology keeps developing, should we be able to use it in schools. Well I think we should. eventually as we get older, we will have to use the technology, won't we? But in our class, we also had discussed how we can sometimes be distracted by all of this new and fun technology. So their would have to be some rules to that. Using cell phones in class? Well why not have computers for every class?