Chapter 8 & Success in the Net Gen

Well..by now you may know that the NY Giants are 4-0, and the NY Yankees won the AL East. I'll keep the updates coming...

Chapter 8: When I graduated in 2007 (only a little over 2 years ago) I never took an online course. I never blogged. I never read an online text. I never communicated with my professors via email. Today, I am blogging, reading, reacting, and emailing daily. Education through the Internet has grown incredibly. The active learning that can be accomplished is remarkable. Online live lectures and webinars have replaced uninteresting and tedious monotoned in class sermons. Blogs have replaced classroom journals. Online text books have replaced the over priced real things. And although we can never fully replace traditional forms of educational resources, we can continue to learn and explore the Internet and the educational materials that it has to offer.

To be successful in the Net Generation, I must continue to update myself with information. Continue to use online resources like social bookmarking and blogging. I must attend all that is out there. Webinars, seminars, lectures, and conventions. Communicate with teachers all over the world to gain new ideas for the classroom. I must integrate what I learn from the Internet and share it with my students in the classroom. I must listen to my students because eventually they will know more about the Internet and technology than I will. Communicate, Listen, Share and Explore are vital to be successful in the Net Gen.