What started as a bonding moment between a young girl and her father resulted in a learning experience for Twitter users around the world. This journey begins with Mr Chamberlain and his class going about their usual Comments4Kids Wednesday activities. They came across a beautiful story posted by a father who encouraged his daughter to "take a closer look at the world around her." Even though they were inspired by Kaia's own photos and her interpretation of the world, Mr. Chamberlain's class got a surprise call from Kaia's father himself, Jabiz Raisdana. Since Kaia is a three year girl who can not read, he asked the class to create a video for her. Through Skype, Voicethread, and video, the class were able to interact and respond to this fascinating story.
Obviously privacy is a major issue when it comes to presenting yourself and others to the world, by means of technology. Though I am not a parent myself, I understand Mr. Raisdana's perspective on sharing his little Kaia with the rest of the world. It is frightening to become that vulnerable to the world. But all in all, this is a fine example of Personal Learning Networks coming together to collaborate ideas, philosophies, and personal experiences with technology users across the planet. I think Kaia's father took the right step to not only show off Kaia's adventure to fellow family members, but also to the world.
When I continue my technology journey in my future classroom, parents, who are concerned just like Mr. Raisdana, will know exactly what their child is doing in my classroom.! Technology has taken the art of learning and turned it up a notch. There are no limitations when it comes to the discoveries that are being made and are continuing to be made in the classroom. As Mr. Chamberlain's class and my own EDM 310 class has found out, Twitter and blogging are important factors that allow today's society to stay connected.
Here's the link to Mr Chamberlain's response to Kaia's adventure. Click here
Here's the link to Mr. Raisdana's response to Mr. Chamberlain and his class. Click here
Here's Kaia's photo essay. Click here
I see your point on how it is a great example on how networking works, but I saw something else. To me I saw how technology could be used in the classroom through Photo Essays.
ReplyDeleteYes indeed. I thought the concept of Photo Essays were quite interesting myself! I could see myself creating such things, rather than making a normal video. Personally, I am a huge fan of still photos!
ReplyDeleteYour points are excellent, but to us this was a simple case of discovery. Jabiz was simply doing something he wanted to do with his daughter and because he has an online presence he shared his daughter's work. Because I want my students to practice writing instead of always using keyboarding software in class I have them comment on blog posts.
ReplyDeleteWhen Jabiz noticed the comments and asked on twitter who was doing the commenting, I let him know. I have had this happen several times before. What made this different was a question by one of my students.
One of the major benefits of having access to the internet is the ability to answer questions students ask. Jabiz offered to answer the question and the rest was a natural extension. Point of need (or want) learning followed by access to the answer. This is what a personal learning network offers.
In conclusion, I think two things more things you could learn from this experience is technology allows us to answer questions more easily than ever before and having a network of people is a good thing!
Mr. C
I agree! I think that technology is amazing! Think how much that three year old little girl learned just from this one experience! I wish I would of had access to such things when I was younger!
ReplyDeleteYou wrote: "Technology has taken the art of learning and turned it up a notch. "
ReplyDeleteAnd as you can see by the comments you have received, the impact that this episode has had, and your own reactions, you might want to revise you statement to "two notches" or maybe evne "three notches". Nice job!