Information Diet--I ate too much today.
It's Sunday night, past 5 PM, but I have been reading and grading. All. Day. But I'm almost caught up. Anyway …
I found this book to be fascinating. I learned that I am the oldest man in the room. I mean, not only don't I use social media like Facebook and Twitter, but I can leave my phone at home and I just don't care. However, I spend time on my computer grading, reading, and working all the time. I don't know what I would do if I was involved in social media as well. I mean, I don't have the time to do what I have to now. I think that I don't fall down that rabbit hole because I have weaned myself off of it. When computers first came out, and the net was brand new, I spent hours surfing. But I actually grew bored after a while. Like, five years or so. And then I moved to Florida and was playing in a band and couldn't afford to go online. Then kids.
I often think that I am lucky not to be tied to my electronics as much as my students or my own kids. They seem to not have the ability to simply to spend any significant time without looking at their phones. My kids actually get antsy if 15 minutes go by and they can't check their messages. My wife is good for about 20 minutes. Even my 81 year old mother seems to be addicted. I guess dopamine knowns no age, huh?
I have to find a way to reach my students with the limited technology I have available to me. And the limited technology they have as well. Nearly all of them have a smart phone, but they cannot bring them into school. There are phone lockers for them to leave their phones until school is over. So using technology in class is sporadic, and I have had three different students lose their electricity already. Three more have had their computers fail because they are older machines. I am not sure where to go with it right now.
Don't feel so bad. I too have no desire to join Facebook or Twitter. Unlike many others, I could care less about updating my status and sharing pictures with others. I will stick to talk and text. At my grade level, the students are not allowed to bring in their own technology. It is hard to get technology in the class for all of my students. We do not have enough laptops to support multiple classrooms at a time, so everyone is always fighting over them. When it does get to the point where students can have their own technology, I am most certainly going to bring that book up to everyone. It was a great reference guide to learn about good information consumption.
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