Journal 3- Nailing Digital Jelly to a Virtual Tree

In the article, " Nailing Digital Jelly to a Virtual Tree," written by Ferdi Serim and Kathy Schrock, technology is changing the way children are learning. The article points out that living in today's society, technology is learned and integrated as the "digital jelly" in time frames. Now, starting at a very young age, we use technology for children to explore. The virtual tree is made up of the organizational part, and still needs help. With such high technology requirements, infrastructure has a lot to do with what is available.
The type of social networking on the web nowadays can lead to "unintentional learning." If students are exposed, by technology, to a same age student in a different part of the world, they will communicate and become interested. The object of the "virtual jelly" is to connect.

1.) What would be an example of "unintentional learning"?

The one great advantage of the world wide web and using it in the classroom is the non-essential item of the encyclopedia. Now, students can browse so much useful material that they are bound to learn. "Unintentional Learning" will happen frequently if students are exploring something they are interested in. With so many interactive websites, attention can be held for hours out of interest. Seeing a picture of an animal or piece of art can lead to further exploration and then information is acknowledged.

2.) What are a pro and con of convergence?

Convergence is the integration of the communication and computing resources and services that seamlessly transverse multiple infrastructures and deliver content to multiple platforms or appliances.
It is not so seeming less. A pro can be the distance to where education and communication is reached. Without it's existence, places that highly lack any technology advancement have a resource to the outside world. A con is there can be technical errors and with a bad connection sometimes things don't work. There are many opportunities through convergence including video casting and video-on-demand. Many sources of education find this helpful.