We’re supposed to all be getting comfortable with computers for our students. You know, be able to explain what a “blog” is or a “URL”. It’s just so fucking terribly ironic that this professor thinks we’re not young enough to know these things.

I’m going to put together a technology survey for my middle school students to see what they have to work with at home. I was thinking about getting them signed up at BlogSpot or even running some Google Wikis for collaboration. Each grade can create a wiki out their entire year’s content. Their very own online math textbook, you know? Maybe I’ll have them create Podcasts about certain math reports.

Basically the big idea here is to have them submit some activities using technology. Right now, I have laptops in my classroom, but we just use this one program, Compass Learning, for now. I want them to start using the Internet.

I just wish this professor would push through the computer literacy crap and give me the meat already. I’m in Jubilee Hall if you want to put me out of my misery and deploy some missiles for me.

And yes, I’m tapping theScrabbled for ideas, if you have any.