Extra Lil’ Something

“My Concerns With Connected Learning”

While completing this badge I have struggled with a few things. First of all because I have never done anything like this in my education background, so I do not feel like this is any different than a group project, or peer evaluations. To me this feels like an elevated group project. At the same time I have wonder what injustice having this, or rather not having, this in class. Some students will not get the opportunity to have this learning in their curriculum because of their economical setting. Schools more urban, schools that don’t have decent funding, schools supplied with students from low income families, will not have the chance to even think about including this in their lessons. Because the school is not funded they don’t have the computers needed to have this networking happen. While this is an amazing opportunity for the students that can have a computer per student, and that the teacher can guarantee that the student can come home and work on their project or do the research, there are others that aren’t so lucky.

The students will not have that learning and so when they graduate they will be less likely to get a job because they don’t know these, no becoming, basic skills. Or they are lost in a frustrating situation, like myself, where they cannot figure out this learning. This haunts me that this is becoming such a huge way of learning and yet we are shutting out so many kids because we cannot give them the tools to do it.