It's my first experience to create a blog. Sure I know what it is, what it is for but in everyday live ICT take so much time. From one hand it's great - we can get any information we need at any time, we can communicate with people who are far away, we can search for books, articles and carry out a kind of research and so on. But! All these technologies devour our time, time that we can share with our dearest, with our friends, with our students. It's a well known fact that nowadays children prefer to communicate with their peers, classmates, friends via Internet. And sometimes they forget how to play together, what to say to each other when they meet each other, how to make a "real discovery" when you go to a library or an archive or just to your granny to ask her "What does this word meen? I have never heard it".
You may think that I'm a bit retrograde. May be. But I would prefer to spend more time with my family and with our friends. And in this case I think that ICT can help us to become more independent of ICT. It may sound funny.
But! This week with the help of this course I got a chance to "meet" a lot of people from so many parts of the world. It's the first achievement of this week.
The second one - thanks to Sean and this course I learned ground rules for discussion which can be used everywhere - in class and extracurricular activities, in communication with the surrounding world and with yourself.
The third one - the conclusion that it's good to know fron the very beggining what you are supposed to do, what results you are bound at, and what criteria will be used to estimate waht you've done.
The fourth- I have been ill for several days with high temperature and all the consequences but ICT gave me possibility not to be irresponsible - as soon I felt better I could do some tasks without leaving cozy home atmosphere.
How could I apply this new knowledge in my job???
I guess this knowledge can give more independence to my students and to myself, to free more time for real-time discussions (unprepared discussions) during class activities.
I should give more detailed perspectives to my students when beginning a new course.
Together with the students we should or we can state our Ground Rules for collaboration/cooperation.
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