{"id":44,"date":"2007-12-26T12:54:51","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T16:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/2007\/12\/26\/edublog-awards-teachers-embrac"},"modified":"2007-12-26T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T16:59:13","slug":"edublog-awards-teachers-embracing-digital-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/2007\/12\/26\/edublog-awards-teachers-embracing-digital-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Edublog Awards: Teachers Embracing Digital Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the year wraps up, take a look at the winners of this year\u2019s International Edublog Awards. In true digital fashion, the awards ceremony was held on the Island of Jokaydia \u2013 in Second Life. Since a large part of the Digital Native project\u2019s goal is to engage educators in a discussion about the digital world, it\u2019s very encouraging to see these teachers taking the initiative.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/files\/2007\/12\/edublog-awards.jpg\" alt=\"All dressed up for the Edublog Awards.\" \/><br \/>\n<em>All dressed up for the Edublog Awards. From the Flikr photo pool.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The winners of the awards range from Second Life classrooms to class wikis to teacher blogs. I\u2019ll let the winners themselves do the talking, so <a href=\"http:\/\/edublogawards.com\/and-the-winners-are\/\">here\u2019s the list<\/a>. What I find particularly noteworthy is the fact that teachers are not only collaborating with students online but, like their students, are collaborating with each other.  As teachers adopt the same methods as their students, the dialogue should be able to more easily  find a common denominator. <\/p>\n<p>Digital education is one of the areas that has plenty of untapped potential. I would say that most of my classmates, who are otherwise immersed in digital technologies such as IM or Facebook, are still uncomfortable with wikis or blogs. Many courses already utilize blogs and forums as an extension of classroom discussion, but they are never very successful. Is this a reflection of our old- fashioned \u201canalog habits\u201d that will no longer exist in future generations or a fundamental need for face to face interaction when comes to learning? To what extent will digital technology replace real life classrooms in the future? If initiatives like MIT\u2019s open course ware can be expanded, will all lectures and discussions happen online? Questions to ponder for the New Year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the year wraps up, take a look at the winners of this year\u2019s International Edublog Awards. In true digital fashion, the awards ceremony was held on the Island of Jokaydia \u2013 in Second Life. Since a large part of the Digital Native project\u2019s goal is to engage educators in a discussion about the digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17419],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}