assignment 1-26-10

The article The use of wikis, blogs, and rss in education argues that technology is nesesary to be used in classrooms, not just for communicating assignments and assesments but also to interact with the work assigned. The author suggests that the use of wikis, blogs, and rss by students enabled them to grow an assortment of cognative skills. The pupose of the article is to inform the general public, expecailly educators, the technologies that exsist today and the digital lertacy needed in order to utlize the capabilities in the educational enviernment. Some of what the author covers in the article is explaining and suggesting effective ways in which educators can use current and avalable technologies.
The Author goes further in depth disscussing the possibilities of peers being able to assess and discuss topics in a group with up-to-date input. The new demand on learning and the need for digital literacy is important even as some traditional ways of learning are lost in the proccess.