Chapter 4 and 5 continued

In chapter 5, it says that RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a technology that those in an education program need to start using immediately, so that when we become teachers, we can teach it to our students. Instead of searching through 30 or 40 different sites that will all have relevant information for a project, RSS feeds will go through feeds that you have subscribed to, file them for later use, and when you want to look through them later, you will be given the chance to keep the truly relevant ones and delete the rest; you don't have to do the work keeping all of the sites and then looking through them later. In other words, you can read more content in less time. RSS feeds also have a feature that allows you to use keywords, so that the RSS feed will look for sites that have that keyword in it. As for a benefit for students, they will be immediately updated when new information about topics is published. The chapter also discusses the importance of Google.
After reading this chapter, I am more encouraged to use what the internet offers in my classroom and in my own life. Students growing up in this technological age are introduced to the internet at a young age. That is a lot of information all at once; having an RSS feed is like having a personal assistant sift through all of the sites and find the safe and relevant ones. With the use of RSS feeds with blogs, instead of looking through all of your students' blogs, you can use their RSS feeds to scan through all of the class content in one place, make sure it's appropriate, and then comment on it.