The Things Google Can Do

The article Footprints in the Digital Age by Will Richardson demonstrates students of this age are sharing things on the web but not necessarily for their own learning purposes. Richardson is suggesting that the teachers of this generation should step up their game and own the new technologies, so that the teachers can guide the students to use the web effectively and to express the students’ passions. “Students have the potential to own their own learning- and we have to help them seize that potential.” This is one of the phrases that Richardson says that I think summarizes most of the article.

I agree with Richardson on most of this article because the teachers do need to keep up with us if we are willing to learn this way. This new technology now allows us to share our passions and express our feelings and share that to the world, and people with the same perspective on things can follow. I also think that Google and the web can be a dangerous thing. We can be perceived as all the wrong things if we’re not careful. My friend is already on Google but luckily it just shows a paragraph she did in English class. Internet now has a huge influence on students today. I don’t know an assignment right now that doesn’t have to deal with going on the internet. Even children are going on the Web to play games, so this kind of reliability leads to a lot of questions. Like how will the jobs change in the future?