Searching is a relatively new thing, according to Prensky, less than ten years old (Prensky, 2005, p. 2). This is in contrast to research which has had a long and important history is education "and was established for the purpose of determining the 'quality' of information" (Prensky, 2005, p. 3). Other than that I believe that searching in considered an informal, less academic way of finding information. Researching has the connotations of taking all the information and condensing or filtering through it to back up your own ideas, instead of trying to searching for an answers.
How might you use cell phones?
I think that students could use cell phones to learn about anything. I can really see it being used for a current events class, finding out the latest information on politics or entertainment media. How could cell phones be used in an elementary school? Maybe polling, like we did in class with the kids grouped in 3s or 4s. I know that even students in elementary schools have phones, I was in a third grade class and for the testing there were at least 7 phones that were returned to the students at the end of the day.
Which game program might you like to use?
I think that I would like to use crossword to help students learn their weekly spelling words and their meanings. I think that Missing Letter would also be a fun way for students to see how words are related to each other. Sentence Unscramble would be a great game for students to work on grammar without sitting through long lessons with the teacher at the front of the classroom.
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