I wanted to take my first blog to recap everything I felt after our first day, which I sort of did in my video blog (or vlog I guess). To be honest, after yesterday I was reeling from all of the new information. I felt swamped with the knowledge that I didn't know things about the internet. Since I consider myself fairly internet-literate, the " site: " concept blew my brains out. I was a little angry, wondering "why did no one tell me sooner???" Admittedly, it is entirely possible that I just missed this information growing up, and that someone did try to teach me. But if that is not the case, and that was new information, I could get mad about it all over again if I thought about it enough.
After a workout, grocery run, and couch nap, I was ready to make my video blog and I realized something. Rather than be mad I didn't learn it earlier, I should just be happy that I learned it at all. AND. I should take it as a sign that literacy in the realm of the interwebs should never stop. If I didn't know about site: today, then there will for sure be something to learn tomorrow. There is no way my students will know everything I know about the internet (or maybe there is), so I need to do my best now and forever in order to learn as much as I can, so that I can teach them how to be safe in their online habits, and how to get to the information they want as quickly as possible.
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