These articles and video show a necessity for keeping up with today’s distribution of information. Today’s students live in a world that has changed drastically and thanks to resources of YouTube, Pinterest, Tweeter and others, anyone can be an expert on a subject in a matter of hours. The challenges become apparent when we try to sort out the information into categories such as reliability, usefulness, accuracy, and validity. Educators need to change the way they think about teaching and sharing information because now the focus needs to be set on giving students the tools needed to identify the correct sources and maintain their attention on the tasks at hand when they are surrounded by all this information and distraction.
These resources also refer to the fact that educators need to establish routines that incorporate personal and professional connections to social media to develop a collection of resources that will help each one of us become successful, proactive and engaging teachers. Without these routines, educators will find themselves obsolete, teaching a generation that no long looks to them for knowledge but instead looks for facilitators, guides, and mentors.
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