Thing 1 & Thing 2

I just finished reading the article in thing 1 and watching the video called, "Pay Attention!" Both gave me a lot to ponder. As the mother of an 11 year old boy, I agree that my sons technology experience is very different from that of mine and my husband's experiences! Since we had our son relatively later in life, there is a HUGE technology gap between us and our son. I have a picture of our son sitting in front of a computer playing a Winnie the Pooh game at about age 3! His preschool had computer time built into the porgram. As a speech language pathologist at Canton High School, I am very interested in learning how I can use more technology in my speech/language sessions. I think it would be great to use a podcast of an interesting subject as a jumping off point for discussions. This could also stimulate many language lessons/activities, such as: summarizing, stating the main idea, paraphrasing, comparing/contrasting to written material, news, etc. I am very excited to continue this class! To show just how far I need to go, however, this is the SECOND time I posted my blog....when I tried to edit my original post, I accidentally deleted it! I guess I have a lot to learn!!