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Well the closer the technology that is in the curriculum to the technology that students use the better. It gives a upper hand to the students and skips the step of having to figure it out. This makes for a better learning experience as for a better teaching assignment too.
I feel that instant messaging is not a good idea, because we had that capability in my high school and it just ends up being a waste of time for the students. They end up just messaging each other and not getting work done. They can already text each other and they are going to anyways so do not make it even easier for them. I could see where it would help if used the right way, but feel that it would more or less be abused by the students.
I still do not understand what asynchronous communication is. So I will skip that one. As far as text based communication I already stated that in the classroom I feel it would do not good. In the work world yes it would be great, but that is what emails are for. Face to face communication if you have the ability to I believe is the best way to do it. I understand that this is not always the situation and that text has to be the answer. Face to face is more interactive.
I think that pod cast has the ability to be a good teacher, but brings me back to the face to face interaction being better. The pod cast works great for people that can not get the information from another source or need a further explanation of something that they feel they teacher can not give them. I could see though people not listening with their full attention when watching on a electronic device.
I do not believe that video games help in any way with learning. This is not true. I played video games as a kid educational or not, they are addictive. I play now even when I know I should not. I feel that they will take away from things that you should other wise be doing. I would not let my kid play video games as much as they want, but maybe a set time amount per day would be okay. Like I said education games are no different then regular games. You start out with educational video games and when you grow up turns into shooting games that have you play many hours a day.