Digital Natives

Today I prepared certificates for the first ten 5th grade students who contributed our wiki.I wrote "Congratulations. You've turned out to be a digital native." on their certificates.Tomorrow I'll give them and tell the meaning of digital native which is a new term for my students. I'm sure they'll like their certificates.This wiki study is new for them so they need motivation.Today I also updated our wiki because we had some technical problems. One of my students deleted some of his friends writings while trying to write his by mistake. So I created new pages for each student and wrote a new task for them which is about school system. I also included one example for them.Some of my students have already started writing their new pages.

Computer Skills

My friends usually ask for help when they have trouble using computers. I can not say that I am a computer genius but that’s how some of my friends see me. I don’t want to boost myself here. When I started Learning Technologies course by British Council, I realized that there is a lot to discover about technology and it never ends. This knowledge is like an ocean and you can’t see the end of it. First, you need to learn swimming then; you have to improve your swimming skills because freestyle swimming is not enough to survive in this big ocean. Most of us use computers and surf on the net; at least we have an e-mail account. But how many of us use this technology effectively? Thanks to British Council because this course helps me to learn more about the real usage of technology in teaching.

Wiki Adventure

Our first week has just finished with my 5th grade students’ wiki. They did pretty good job, even the weakest students tried to write something or commented on others’ work. The happiest time for me during the week was when I received thank you e-mails from the parents. They say it is a good opportunity for the kids to work on a project like this and they are highly motivated. The parents are happy in other ways, too. They have the chance to compare their kid’s writing with the others and see their levels. When we first started this wiki adventure , I didn’t think about the parents however, the feedbacks pleased me a lot.