Blog Post 4

I’ve been very bad about keeping up with twitter thus far in the semester. I really am not a social media person, and so I’m never thinking to go on Twitter and browse/post things. So far, I’ve had a couple random education accounts follow me, but most of my activity has been exclusively with my classmates. I need to interact more heavily, because if there is more education tech stuff in my feed, I’ll have more inspiration to post things.

The digital divide has to do with the disparity between educational success in students created by the access (or lack thereof) of technology. Students may be expected to have access to technology by their teachers, and therefore have work that requires technology. The digital divide can be created because some students don’t have access to technology or internet, or perhaps have to work really hard to gain access to it, or only can access outdated technology. This puts them at a disadvantage of being able to succeed as much as those students with easy access. Even if the teacher accommodates for the digital divide, the child may still be affected by going out into the workforce with less experience with technology than their peers. As a teacher, you must be prepared to change expectations for certain students, try to provide outside resources that can keep them up to speed on how to use technology, or perhaps gain access to further school based resources to teach them how to use technology.

If I teach, I’d want to be a Yearbook class advisor. As such, we would have to work largely with Word, InDesign, and Photoshop. We’d also have to use DSLR cameras, and recording software for interviews. I would expect far less work with smart boards and other projector type softwares, as well as more internet-based or research based software.