blog post 4
So far, I have been interacting with different educational twitter accounts. I have been favoriting and retweeting many accounts as well as posting tweets of my own. It has been beneficial because I am able to see other peoples points of view by seeing what they tweet. It will for sure benefit my future career because I know how to tweet from an educational standpoint.
The digital divide affects students and their success in school because it also affects the technology literacy. When children are not able to be given modern technological resources, they will for sure be behind. For example, a child in Haiti will not have the same technological resources available as a child here in the US. It is because they are economically challenged and are not exposed to the same resources. One cause is the economical difference between for example, a child in a private school in the United States compared to a child in Africa. As a teacher, I will most likely experience this digital divide depending on what type of school I work at. For example, my mom is a kindergarten teacher at a very poor school and she does not have the same types of resources as some of her friends who work at schools that are private and are funded more. So, if I am at a school like my moms, I will come up with ways to incorporate technology into the classroom so there isn't a digital divide between my students and other students their same age at other schools.
One type of software I think is very affective to students learning is simulations. I like simulations because for example, kindergarteners can use it in a safe way to learn and interact with the software. I still remember the simulations we used online in elementary school because they truly impacted my learning! We used Paws which was an online game for typing that helped us excel. My mom's kindergarten students use Istation or Iready which are different online educational games for learning math and reading. The one I'm probably least likely to use in a classroom setting of kindergarteners would be the reference software because it would be the encyclopedia which would be over their heads at that age.
The digital divide affects students and their success in school because it also affects the technology literacy. When children are not able to be given modern technological resources, they will for sure be behind. For example, a child in Haiti will not have the same technological resources available as a child here in the US. It is because they are economically challenged and are not exposed to the same resources. One cause is the economical difference between for example, a child in a private school in the United States compared to a child in Africa. As a teacher, I will most likely experience this digital divide depending on what type of school I work at. For example, my mom is a kindergarten teacher at a very poor school and she does not have the same types of resources as some of her friends who work at schools that are private and are funded more. So, if I am at a school like my moms, I will come up with ways to incorporate technology into the classroom so there isn't a digital divide between my students and other students their same age at other schools.
One type of software I think is very affective to students learning is simulations. I like simulations because for example, kindergarteners can use it in a safe way to learn and interact with the software. I still remember the simulations we used online in elementary school because they truly impacted my learning! We used Paws which was an online game for typing that helped us excel. My mom's kindergarten students use Istation or Iready which are different online educational games for learning math and reading. The one I'm probably least likely to use in a classroom setting of kindergarteners would be the reference software because it would be the encyclopedia which would be over their heads at that age.
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