Blog post 4: Twitter and me
I have been following Edweek Teacher and WeAreTeachers on Twitter and I have been given a lot of information and articles from these Twitters. They are constantly posting or sharing articles about different teachers' experiences in the classroom as well as different activities that they do to help inspire their students. I think Twitter is a great source to find articles about peoples experiences with different learning strategies and activities as well as keeping me informed on any local or national developments occuring.
The digital divide can be a huge factor in a students lack of success or motivation in a classroom.
If a student does not have access to things like a computer or internet at home it means that they will not be able to look up information online at home to help with assignments nor will they be able to complete any assignments online or view online resources. This can cause a huge gap for a students education compared to their peers. One of the most common causes of this divide is poverty where the students family can not afford a computer for the student because they have higher priorities with things like groceries to worry about. I will have to be aware of the access of each student to technology and attempt to either involve lessons that do not require online sources if it is a prevalent issue or provide time or access to free computer resources like at a library (whether it be the schools or public) to give the students access to those sources or assignments.
I'm going to be teaching high school level history so I expect to use presentation software the most in my classroom. I will be spending most of my time in lesson planning designing Power Points to engage students' attention and present good information in a pleasing way. On top of this with history I will have tons of outside resources like videos, texts, and photographs to add into presentations if they are relevant to the topic being studied. I don't think problem solving software will be particularly useful or apparent in my classroom since most of the assignments will be based on memory and critical thinking about events and impacts.
The digital divide can be a huge factor in a students lack of success or motivation in a classroom.
If a student does not have access to things like a computer or internet at home it means that they will not be able to look up information online at home to help with assignments nor will they be able to complete any assignments online or view online resources. This can cause a huge gap for a students education compared to their peers. One of the most common causes of this divide is poverty where the students family can not afford a computer for the student because they have higher priorities with things like groceries to worry about. I will have to be aware of the access of each student to technology and attempt to either involve lessons that do not require online sources if it is a prevalent issue or provide time or access to free computer resources like at a library (whether it be the schools or public) to give the students access to those sources or assignments.
I'm going to be teaching high school level history so I expect to use presentation software the most in my classroom. I will be spending most of my time in lesson planning designing Power Points to engage students' attention and present good information in a pleasing way. On top of this with history I will have tons of outside resources like videos, texts, and photographs to add into presentations if they are relevant to the topic being studied. I don't think problem solving software will be particularly useful or apparent in my classroom since most of the assignments will be based on memory and critical thinking about events and impacts.
Noah,
ReplyDeleteI'm also really liking the Twitter observations! I've seen some pretty interesting articles and dialogue between educators. If you're interested, another person that posts link to articles is @coolcatteacher. What's the most interesting article you have come across?