Global Villages

My definition of global village is our wired community just like the article says. It is the things that make communication through technology possible. It allows us to communication with everyone in the world not just limiting communication to the people in your community. I am not sure what to think about this because I can see the positives and negatives about a global village.

The positives are that a global village allows communication with different cultures from around the world. This is good because not a lot of people have the money to travel and so this would be one way to experience cultures.

The negative aspects of this culture would be that you would loose the face to face contact with your neighbors because everyone would be so reliant on faxes and the internet. It also would push our society to levels that it may not be ready for in terms of communication. The people that can't afford internet or simply don't have it depend on the United States Postal Service and with technology taking over that would go away. When looking at the positives and negatives there are far more negative things about a global village.

In terms of how it fits into the K-12 classrooms, I think it would fit but it needs to be used within certain boundaries. It would be helpful for the teacher could they could push out more information and allow students to participate more within the class. It also allows the students to expand their horizons by being able to look things up they might be curious about within school boundaries. I think technology is a great thing for a classroom but like I said above and what every teacher probably thinks technology must be used within appropriate boundaries.