C4T #2

In her first post, Mrs. Hadley J shares the reaction of one of her history classes when they found out that they would not be receiving letter grades in her class in her post entitled, "Sort of Like Whitewater Rafting". I like her choice of title "Sort of like Whitewater Rafting" because she is showing that she completely understands how her students feel when she delivers the news about how they will be assessed in her class. While taking her family on a whitewater rafting outing, Mrs. Hadley J experienced an excited but pretty scared moment when she realized that her family's lives as well as her own were in the hands of a college-aged guide. She states that she usually likes to be in control of her surroundings and I can completely relate because I don't like to feel out of control either and during the first few weeks in EDM310, I really felt this way but have gained control and am enjoying what and how I am learning.

In her second post, "Investigating in 2011", Mrs. Hadley J shares a lesson that she taught from a Government unit. Her students were assigned different Republican candidates and had to research their positions on the economy and other issues, using the internet, Facebook, Twitter and encyclopedias. Mrs. Hadley J states that she taught this lesson four and eight years ago and share with us the vast difference in the amount of information available through the internet. She states that it should be the goal of educators to "1. investigate the tools that will help them identify the best sources for information; 2. provide models for how to handle all of the information that they find. They, like we, are drowning in the information that surrounds us". I definitely agree and think that educators should share these goals with one another because while our roles as educators have changed, we are definitely still needed to guide our students in filtering the information that they find.