Website Evaluation

The website I chose is form the New York Times website but the author of the article is not stated. There is no information about the author that I can find and information about the organization isn't stated on the page the the article is on but I'm sure you could find information about the organization. you can contactthe New York times company but the author's contact information is not listed. I don;t believe the information is biased in any way, it is more factual and based on the results of studies. Emotion isn't really used to persuade anyone again, it's mostly information about the results of studies. The information does seem consistant and complete and it is fairly well written and simple to understand. It is not necessarily important the the date in on this information

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Instructional Strategies

I chose messaging Shakespeare. It discussed incorperating text messaging into class work in order to help stundents summarize information. the teacher alowed students to send emails and texts to each other to answer questions as part of a group. It would be effective because a text message can only hold a certain ammout of characters which forces student to decide what the most important parts of the information is.

Double Journal Entry 3

" For example, in a study I did of college students' instant messaging conversations, out of 11,718 words, only 31 were "online lingo" abbreviations, and only 90 were acronyms (of which 76 were LOL). In a study of college students' text messaging, my colleague Rich Ling and I found a few more lexical shortenings; yet the grand total of clear abbreviations was only 47 out of 1,473 words, which is hardly overwhelming."

I am rather surprised by these statistics. These days kids are always talking in online lingo, they even go as far as to use it in face to face conversations. With that being said to see that this study showed that out of over 11,000 words only 31 of them were considered to be online lingo is kind of amazing and to see that 76 of the 90 acronyms were "LOL" is pretty shocking to me.



Baron, N. S. (2009, March). Educational leadership. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/Are-Digital-Media-Changing-Language¢.aspx

Learning Styles

1. I have mixed emotions about the existance of learning styles. I still think to an extint they do exist but I feel that they may be a little more broad than once thought. I think some people do retain information better by having it presented to them in different ways. However, not all information can be presented visualy or auditorily so it may be a matter of having things taught in multiple ways or just having the right example presented so that a particular person can understand.

2. I believe they are useful in classroom instruction because if someone strictly believes they are a visual learner they may only learn when things are given to them visualy. At the same time though, I believe that good teachers present information well to everyone regaurdless of their perceived learning style.

3. I think the best philosophy for using learning styles is to present things in the clearest and simplest manner possible if you are an instructor and if you are a learner to be aware of your preferences but also understand things can be learned in other ways too.

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Double Journal Entry 2

"Video games provide the learner with real environment that gives the students chance to stimulate what they want to learn. Now, there are many examples of using the video games in school. According to BBC News many educators do not use video games in learning. They think this kind of technology is only for fun and does not benefit their children. This point of view is wrong. According to many researchers, children can learn more effectively when they play video games than when they read books."

I have mixed emotions about this statement. On one hand I feel that video games are just what the title indicates, games but I also feel that if used properly and in moderation they can be a useful tool in education. I don't think you can just turn a child loose and let them play a game and expect them to learn important comcepts. However, if used in an appropriate manner they can reenforce what is being taught.




web 2.0 and emergina learning technologies/learning styles. (2011, may 19). Retrieved from http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Web_2.0_and_Emerging_Learning_Technologies/Learning_Styles


video games in education [Web]. (2009). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNfPdaKYOPI