Blog 4

My early experiences using Twitter have been positive. I have been mostly interacting with my peers in the class. I have also branched out to different educational accounts to diversify my feed. By exploring educational posts, I am learning different policies and techniques that can be used to better my future classroom. Twitter might be useful for my future career as a teacher because it will allow me to stay up to date on educational policies, as well as comparing teaching techniques with other teachers. I would try to incorporate Twitter into my classroom, however, given that I will be an elementary school teacher, it may be too much for the students.

The digital divide will have a major impact on the school systems, and does even today. The digital divide affects students accessibility to technology. Lots of students don't have access to technology and might never get the chance to work with it before they are thrown out into the real world. This will lead to the students being less prepared than others who have been using technology from a very young age. As a teacher, this affects how I will educate my class. I may not have access to projectors, smart boards, computers, or even white boards in some schools. This may just mean I have to print out activities that I want to do in class so I can provide for the students. Something as small as this will not greatly impact the education of my students. As someone who didn't have technology in their school, only blackboards, and was baffled by the fact that there are white boards in more than one classroom in schools, I am very well equip and mentally prepared to educate these students, in a way that is going to be effective and impactful for their situation.

I would like to implement storybook and poptropica. I picked storybook because it is an easy interactive way to implement technology, while allowing the students to begin reading. I also picked poptropica because it implements education in a way that allows the students to entertain themselves. Young students have trouble keeping themselves focused on one task. By making learning fun and interactive, it allows the student to engage in learning, and they will be more likely to retain the information because they are having fun while learning.
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