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R/D6

-This answer is where i left off in reflection 5 stating that some of our society might fall behind or slip through the cracks if they are not technologically advanced. As the book states in chapter 14 "as the knowledge and performance capabilities of populations improve so, too, do the economic successes of countries and their peoples" so if we dont improve will our success not improve either? I believe most of the six major categories of variables affecting are performance we are already incorporating into our lessons anyway. As a teacher i know i always look to what will stimulate my students into wanting to learn and than try to address what responses they will come up with which in turn affects the consequences or the outcome of the lessons and leads us to the next step. Do we continue or re-teach did the students get it or we need to re-analyze what we did. The individual knowledge, capacity, and motives would come into play at how we adapt or adjust our teaching and planning for future lessons. hpt/hpi is just a shorter easier way to say we are re-evaluating our lessons and students and seeing where we need to go next with our teaching.

R/D5

-you can see how far technology has already come and i dont think it is planning on slowing down just because we might be afraid of it or unsure about it. It certainly has made its way into not only the home, the workforce, but the school systems also. Beside the advancement on the computer itself from coming along way from a non-movable large floor model to a portable device that is smaller than some purses i have. The internet and world wide web will impact and affect all ages of learning. K-12 has been impacted by influencing when teachers introduce students to the computer. Children in pre-school are now learning how to use basic computer skills in order to take advantage of programs that are offered on the internet,whereas i wasn't introduce to a computer until middle school. High school students are able to perform much more in depth and detailed learning and research projects as to before doing all the leg work by hand took weeks to accomplish. Higher Education students such as ourselves are now able to advance in their education due to advancement through computers, internet, and the WWW, whereas before we would have to drive to campus to get the education we were seeking. There is not just one aspect of education and business that is not affected by a computer and/or the internet, etc. There are down falls to everything and such downfalls that one might say is that the students might not be able to go into a library and know how to pull information if it is not available on a computer, the physical work of 'work' is vanishing fast and those of us or are future students that haven't been exposed to it will fall short, or will they? On the other hand older adults entering the worforce might have more of a problem if they havent been exposed to the new technology and only know how to use the long hand approach to working, versus the technological side of things.

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R/D4

-Photo sharing would be a good way to incorporate explanations, definitions, information in an educational activity or unit just like a student would use slide shows in other programs they could use the photosharing website in some of the same ways. The concerns i would have with students using this would be the inappropriate pictures that may be produced or shown on some of the websites and knowing where to draw the line as a teacher or a student.

-I had to become familiar with the addie format for developing some other lesson plans i have had to create and in turn found that most of the time we were already doing this systematic approach to our lesson plans without even knowing it. The steps of any process seem to fall into design most of the time anyway.

R/D3

-Social bookmarking seems to be a really good device for keeping track of research. I know there has been times I thought for sure i would be able to remember a site and go back to it numerous times and in turn couldn't remember it or find it for the life of me. I would definitely see myself using social bookmarking and trying to incorporate it into my classroom lesson plans for my students. Social bookmarking could also lend a hand in partner work on school projects, homework, etc. for students trying accomplish the best scenario's for their work. Students would be able to work together and share ideas and compare research at home without leaving there desk. The article on social bookmarking did raise some good points that would have me concerned in letting the students use this. Not only the students but anyone in general could fall into anyone of the downfalls of the social bookmarking world. If we are amateurs at this and not find out the proper usage of the technology we could make it more work than what it is worth, that would be my only concern.

-The definitions of educational technology was first introduced to me in edt5420 and the definition in the chapter we had to read was very difficult, if you will, to follow i found myself reading the chapter over numerous times. For lack of better words the definition seems to be very 'technical' and formal with a lot of big words. I am glad that the book definition states that over the years more attention has been given to the noninstructinoal solutions to performance problems. And that the two sets of practices formed the core of the field. I think there is still work that needs to be done on the definition in order to guide us as teachers in the field.