Blogging Resources

Blogging Resources: Infowhelm and Information Fluency, My Daily Info-Wrangling Routine, 8 Ways into Inquiry Learning, and The Journey from Digital Literacy to Digital Fluency


             After studying these resources I have found that they are all sources that help educators foster student's education by discussing ways to use resources and tools from outside of the school. Education today has limited children's learning by only utilizing resources and tools within the school. However, by allowing students to venture outside of the tools and resources provided by the school, teachers foster inquiry based learning which inhibits the students to control their own learning. They also encourage teachers to be digitally fluent. This means that not only will you eventually learn how to implement technology and tools in your classroom, but learn how to think with teaching and learning with technology and how it can apply and benefit your students.

             These resources also discussed the amount of information overload that we now face and how it impact education. There was a statement made in the video, InfoWhelm and Information Fluency that intrigued me. It stated, "Do you think having access to this much information changes the skills our students need to learn?" This question really got me thinking about teaching life long learners and the skills they need to know to be successful. Indeed, we need to think about revising the skills we aim to teach to accommodate this overload of information available to them. Being able to ask good, direct questions is a skill that will help them to be successful when using resources. Also, teachers must help students understand and learn how to organize all this information.