C4T #3

The Print Effect:If you printed @langwitches's entire twitter timeline...

The langwitches entire timeline includes tweets from their 3,062 friends, who collectively have around 3,860,006 tweets. Therefore, if their entire timeline was printed it would take 180,133 pages. This would require 300 cartridges of ink which requires $8,538. Surprisingly, that would take 4 days, 22 hours, and 38 minutes to print. Indeed, during those 4 days, 22 hours, and 38 minutes 1,856,942 babies are born worldwide. What cool facts one can receive from just visiting a website known as cartridge save. You see the benefits of embracing the web and technology are endless. In addition,by using the web,people become Eco friendly and save money. Just like the blog stated, the twitter timeline if printed would've been expensive and killed me trees, so the best option is to utilize the web.


Guide to 21st Century Skills, Literacy, Fluency Flyer

This post really caught my eye due to it being a guide and because it discusses literacy. The guide consists of 5 pages with five main topics. The first page explains what's it's like to be educated. In the 21st Century, the illiterate will not be the ones that can't read and write,but the ones who can't learn, unlearn, and relearn. As crazy as that sounds, I totally agree with this guide. We can't just learn information for the time being and refuse to take in new information.If we think in this matter, we will simply be holding ourselves back. Next, we must execute these skills of communication, collaboration, creativity, connectivity, and critical thinking. Finally, literacy is addressed. Before reading this post, I never thought about others besides reading and writing. There's global, network, digital, information, media, and basic literacy. In my opinion, it should be a requirement that teachers master network literacy. Will Richardson defines network literacy as the ability create, navigate personal learning networks in safe, ethical, and effective ways. If teachers achieve this literacy, learning would be more effective and interesting.