Technology In The Classroom

For some reason, it was kind of hard for me to find class pages. I never even had one in K-12. I finally find one from the St. Brendan School in Bronx, New York. I chose to look at the PreK-1 grade after the 8th-grade class page basically had one sentence. What both of these class pages had in common was a "Contact Us" section. In the PreK-1 class page, there are a lot of weekly updates. I think the teacher updates the page as the weeks go by in order to keep parents or anyone updated for their child's events, assignments, and important reminders for the week. https://stbrendanschoolbronx.org/prek-1

The idea of the Digital Divide is the difference between those who have technology and wifi accessible and others who don't. I believe the Digital Divide affects a student's success in school. Often times we forget that wifi and technology is a commodity that not everyone may have consistently or at such easy access. The main cause of the Digital Divide is money. Some parents struggle to pay rent, the last thing on their mind is "I have to pay my wifi so my child can have access to his class page and assignments." As a future teacher, I feel like it is very important to be mindful and always give students the option to be able to do it on paper or have a physical copy if needed for whatever the reason may be.

Looking back at my course experience through Twitter, I find Twitter has been very beneficial because I have noticed that a lot of us students have the same questions. It is very easy and time-saving when I can just get on twitter and check how my other classmates did with the same question I had. Twitter might be beneficial in my future career because it helps me keep connected with people from all different places. This means they may have different ways to do things and bounce ideas off of each other so we could grow in our perspective careers.

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