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Write, in one sentence, your story.
One Sentence is a collection of true stories that are all one sentence in length. There is some content that may not be appropriate for students, but the premise could be used in your own way. I would like to use this as part of a blogging with students exercise.
Can I write my story in one sentence? Wow. I’m not sure. Probably not the whole story! But let’s see if I can put this into practice. The hardest part (like picking a topic for an APA paper) is narrowing down a mountain of material into one interesting moment in time. So, here’s a moment that is recently on my mind.
I realized, a day too late, that I should have saved the video clip of him talking to his grandchildren because now they will never hear his voice again.
I replied to an email from my professor the other day, poor guy. I got off on a bit of a tangent and it’s sure I am that he’s got an empty mailbox just waiting for my stream of consciousness to arrive. He sent a short email mentioning the class homework on search engines that included “there was a time before Google”. My reply included:
Oh my, life before Google! I remember that… I remember using BBS’ – the first discussion boards! Wonder if my conversations with the kids will be full of that type of nostalgia mixed in with the “we didn’t have remote controls for the TV, we had to get up and spin the dial!” exclamations. My mom hated when we went from channel 38 to 56 fast! Tin foil on the rabbit ears! Hmmm, could be a good blog post in there somewhere…
Yes, there is a blog post in there but not necessarily a good one.
I was thinking about Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants, I am a DI and my kids are DNs. What in the world will my grandchildren be? Virtual Natives? Artificial Intelligence Natives?
We are working under the premise when integrating technology that we are preparing students for jobs that don’t even exist yet. Fair enough, my job didn’t exist when I was in college and I can think of several ways that someone could have prepared me better – teaching me logic, organization, marketing, to name a few (I was a Communications Disorders major / speech & hearing).
We are all hurtling towards that great big cloud of uncertainty that is the future and doing all we can with what we have at the moment. I truly believe that technology is fantastic and can help us out tremendously, but I also believe that we must stay grounded in the basics as well. We forget the basics that are woven into each and every generation no matter how much technology is involved. Students don’t know this stuff automatically – teach them how to shake hands! Teach them how to make a good decision with a good process! Tech can help, but don’t forget the basics as the basics don’t change too much no matter what year it is.
