Friday, September 5, 2008

Just starting to blog

Strange to feel like I'm just becoming literate. This is my first blog. I am creating it as an initial assignment in a Teaching with Technology course. It should be fun to see the progression of my own learning between now and the end of the semester.

As an mechanical engineer, to me"technology" often related to physics, and humankind's forming and use of physical objects in the world. I am finding that in education, the term is more narrowly interpreted to refer to electronic technology, and usually more specifically, to computer software.

Computer software knowledge can be useful and fun, but I've always thought of it as fleeting knowledge that quickly becomes obsolete.

So the question is, "By the time I'm teaching Physics in a year or two, will people be blogging anymore?"

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