Comments on: There’s A Watershed Moment Coming http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/11/03/theres-a-watershed-moment-coming/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:38:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brian Ellefritz http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/11/03/theres-a-watershed-moment-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-189664 Brian Ellefritz Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:00:26 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/11/03/theres-a-watershed-moment-coming/#comment-189664 Jon, A great post and I have to to look no further than my own household to see endorsement of these concepts. First, kudos to our new wave of educators who are coming to grips with this new bunch but my three kids (11-15 years old) got various assignments to tune into this election and offer their reflections back to their teachers and classmates. They watched clips in YouTube and on TV, scanned the candidates web sites and most powerfully collaborated with small classroom workgroups via Facebook, texting, chat and email to build and deliver presentations and reactions to the candidates and their platforms. I contrast this with the painful acts of watching a few presidential debates delivered simultaneously on the three US networks with my parent's overlay of commentary and no easy means of bouncing my reactions amongst my peers. The world is moving on. Quickly. Jon,
A great post and I have to to look no further than my own household to see endorsement of these concepts. First, kudos to our new wave of educators who are coming to grips with this new bunch but my three kids (11-15 years old) got various assignments to tune into this election and offer their reflections back to their teachers and classmates. They watched clips in YouTube and on TV, scanned the candidates web sites and most powerfully collaborated with small classroom workgroups via Facebook, texting, chat and email to build and deliver presentations and reactions to the candidates and their platforms.

I contrast this with the painful acts of watching a few presidential debates delivered simultaneously on the three US networks with my parent’s overlay of commentary and no easy means of bouncing my reactions amongst my peers. The world is moving on. Quickly.

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