kitchen table math, the sequel: Education 2.0 - Now with more bird sounds!

kitchen table math, the sequel: Education 2.0 - Now with more bird sounds!

Monday, March 30, 2009

Education 2.0 - Now with more bird sounds!

7 comments:

concernedCTparent said...: Did you catch the link to the article about primary students having to master Wikepedia and Twitter?

Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary school shakeup

Why am I no longer shocked by any of this?; March 30, 2009 at 12:34 PM
LynnG said...: Good cartoon. How many employers out there are bemoaning the lack of twitter skills in the work force? Is this crazy?; March 30, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Niels Henrik Abel said...: Dinosaur that I am, I don't even get Twitter.

I don't get texting on a cell phone, either. Silly me, I always thought phones were for talking.

Okay, you can wheel me off to the old fogeys' home. I'm liable to start drooling any minute now.; March 30, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Catherine Johnson said...: I do not Tweet but I am about to commence texting.; March 30, 2009 at 4:49 PM
GoogleMaster said...: I'm even farther behind. I don't "get" cell phones. Seriously. I hate phones, or maybe I have telephonophobia. Before I make a call (e.g. to make a vet appointment) I have to write down everything I'm going to say, and then I start to get a sick feeling in my stomach as the phone rings on the other end. Most of the time I'm hoping no one picks up and I can just hang up.

The phone on my desk at work rings maybe one or two times a month, and I use it to call out about as often. The phone at home is a landline and gets used to call out about once a month. I suppose telemarketers call on it (despite the do-not-call list), but most of them don't leave a message.

Other cell phone negatives:
* I hate carrying things around with me. I hate having to keep up with stuff. If it doesn't fit in a pants pocket while I'm sitting down, I don't carry it.
* I absolutely MUST have my privacy and alone time. I would hate to be reachable 24/7.
* I have trouble hearing the person on the other end over what's going on around me. I have to completely shut out the "present" world around me and mentally put myself with the person on the other end. Often I close my eyes or just defocus them. (Is that an ASD thing?)
* The thought of carrying around a GPS tracking device is creepy. (OK, now my tinfoil hat is showing.)

So yeah, I don't have or want a cell phone.

I don't blog because I don't see the need to share my thoughts with the world. So I really don't get the Twitter thing.; April 1, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Catherine Johnson said...: that's interesting!

I don't think I've heard of a person feeling as anxious as that about making phone calls -- I bet it's common, though

We're about to become Texters, on grounds that a teen-aged person cannot develop proper relationships with other teen-aged persons without the ability to Text.

So: Texting.

This relates to GoogleMaster, why?

Because apparently people feel much more comfortable texting each other than they do calling - and when I say "people," I mean parents & their kids as well as kids & their friends, etc.

I bet there's a "social anxiety" aspect of telephones that affects most of us without our quite realizing it.

I frequently procrastinate phone calls even though I'm outgoing by nature.; April 2, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Unknown said...: From my twitter feed comes this cry for help from a mother/spec. ed teacher/techie (according to her twitter page):

"Looking for a good descripton of CTools for my college son's paper on online learning. Help! I can't find one."

Her next tweet tells us that her son attends the U of Mich, Dearborn.

Apparently, the kid can't even ask for help for his own paper online!

It's always worse...; April 5, 2009 at 11:32 AM

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