Comments on: World Digital Library: Is this the library of the future? http://cemat.edublogs.org/2008/06/13/world-digital-library-is-this-tomorrow%e2%80%99s-library/ Educational Technology and Lenawee County Schools Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:20:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: mar10 http://cemat.edublogs.org/2008/06/13/world-digital-library-is-this-tomorrow%e2%80%99s-library/#comment-666 mar10 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:08:59 +0000 http://cemat.edublogs.org/?p=102#comment-666 Nicole, Thanks for commenting. It sounds like you have experiences and a world view that will greatly benefit your future students in this connected and flattened world. Best wishes to you in your studies and career! Nicole,
Thanks for commenting. It sounds like you have experiences and a world view that will greatly benefit your future students in this connected and flattened world. Best wishes to you in your studies and career!

]]> By: Nicole205 http://cemat.edublogs.org/2008/06/13/world-digital-library-is-this-tomorrow%e2%80%99s-library/#comment-664 Nicole205 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:42:09 +0000 http://cemat.edublogs.org/?p=102#comment-664 I found this to be very interesting and could not help but comment. I love that finally a group of people are taking a step out to increase the sharing of diversity and countries becoming more and more aware of each other's thoughts, ideas, and traditions...and what not better to do this with than with technology? Currently I am going into my 3rd year of college and am majoring Spanish and Elementary Education. I can tell you right now that I have always said that one of my top 5 goals for my classroom will be to show that diversity is a beautiful thing. So many times we always limit ourselves to what is to be learned about in our country and the technology, thoughts, ideas, inventions that we as a nation have to offer, but I commend James Billington and those involved in this project for taking a step up to unite countries, even if it just be through cyberspace...which, we must admit, seems to be the main connection to everything these days. How awesome will it be to just log in and look up a book written in India..we are being exposed to different ways of thinking, and different cultures. I believe so many of our world's problems and disagreements with one another could be easily solved by understanding the way our different countries work...we're not all the same, and we must learn to give and take and find a firm balance. Another reason I found this to be so exciting is because I was raised in Mexico...and when I graduated from high school my parents sent me to the United States to receive an education here. I have seen both perspectives, both ways of living, and though it has been frustrating at times I found it helped me more as a person. That's why I want to give the students of our future generations to see beyond their city, state, and country. Our world is such a beautiful place, it's a shame that many schools do not make it more of a need for students to learn about other countries and what they can teach us about living in such a diverse world. Great post, I will definitely be looking into this when it comes out! I found this to be very interesting and could not help but comment. I love that finally a group of people are taking a step out to increase the sharing of diversity and countries becoming more and more aware of each other’s thoughts, ideas, and traditions…and what not better to do this with than with technology?

Currently I am going into my 3rd year of college and am majoring Spanish and Elementary Education. I can tell you right now that I have always said that one of my top 5 goals for my classroom will be to show that diversity is a beautiful thing. So many times we always limit ourselves to what is to be learned about in our country and the technology, thoughts, ideas, inventions that we as a nation have to offer, but I commend James Billington and those involved in this project for taking a step up to unite countries, even if it just be through cyberspace…which, we must admit, seems to be the main connection to everything these days. How awesome will it be to just log in and look up a book written in India..we are being exposed to different ways of thinking, and different cultures. I believe so many of our world’s problems and disagreements with one another could be easily solved by understanding the way our different countries work…we’re not all the same, and we must learn to give and take and find a firm balance.

Another reason I found this to be so exciting is because I was raised in Mexico…and when I graduated from high school my parents sent me to the United States to receive an education here. I have seen both perspectives, both ways of living, and though it has been frustrating at times I found it helped me more as a person. That’s why I want to give the students of our future generations to see beyond their city, state, and country. Our world is such a beautiful place, it’s a shame that many schools do not make it more of a need for students to learn about other countries and what they can teach us about living in such a diverse world. Great post, I will definitely be looking into this when it comes out!

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