I thought this was a very interesting lesson. Judging by the technology demonstrated in this video and the other videos on the CD, I would guess that these videos were made quite a few years ago. However, I respect very much that the teacher had attempted to give her students the understanding of how email worked. I'm sure many of these students grew up to find much use from their lesson on email and their "Postcards from the NET".
It seemed like these students had been working on this project for some time, and I'm sure the teacher discussed the various functions email can serve. If this were my elementary school classroom, I would be sure to continually talk about how we can use email now and in the future.
I would also provide the students with some guidelines, and maybe even have them create a few of their own too. Rules such as: When receiving email from an unknown sender, be careful of clicking on links or attachments, because it could lead to unsafe material or never send personal information to someone you don't know in an email. I think email is a great tool students and kudos to the teacher for giving her students the knowledge. I just hope that the students understand that safety precautions should be taken very serious when doing anything on the internet.
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Shane, I'll admit that this video was downright painful for me to watch - I can only be grateful that it was no longer than 4 minutes! Floppy disks, a single classroom computer connected to a TV, e-mail, attachments - we sure have come a long way.
ReplyDeleteBut the reason I had us watch this video is to show how quickly technology moves. This book was published in 2006, with a revision in 2008. Yet this video seems so archaic - we've moved onto SmartBoards, flash drives, cloud computing, video conferencing, 1-to-1 laptops in the classroom, wireless access, etc. Technology moves quickly, and so must we, if we expect to be able to prepare our students for a future that we can't even fathom.
With that said, though, I loved your suggestion to include some e-mail etiquette in the lesson. Those are skills that are best off learned early in life!