Yellow Blog group 2-Meghan Wilson

Although I use things like facebook, myspace, and my cell phone on a daily basis, I don't see myself ever using them in an educational setting. I don't feel as though these types of personal technology are used in educational integration because they are not specifically educational. If I were to ask students to call up their facebook during a lesson, I feel as though this would become a distraction. Perhaps I want to ask them to look at how many friends they have compared to their neighbor and find the difference...I feel like students would end up looking at pictures or checking their updates instead, which would detract from my goal of them understanding an important mathematical concept. I feel as though this would be similar with a cell phone or with myspace. Many cell phones have calculators and I can even think of a few activities that could potentially be educational by using a cell phone. However, I still wouldn't do it because I think students would be tempted to text or share picture messages, etc. I do see social networking technologies such as a blog being useful for journaling or communication between students for group projects and things like that, however, I still think similar issues could come up if these things are not closely monitored.