Blog Post #1
Teachers and students are influenced to use technology because technology is widely used in many classrooms. Technology is used in classrooms to communicate with the students and parents, and effectively teach lessons. Technology is used for grading and it offers tools that can help teaching be more effective. Using technology allows students to be more engaged in learning. I noticed this when I was doing my internship at the Florida State University Schools.Grades K-12 had Chromebooks. The students learned how to work online, use google docs, and so much more. It is important for teachers and students to learn how to use technology because technology's influence is growing. Technology allows students to be more creative and it also influences the students learning styles. Personally having technology in the classroom helped me learn better.
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) shows the standards and skills that students and teachers should know to help them be engaged in technology. The ISTE standards for students are empowered learner, digital citizen, knowledge constructor , innovative designer, computational thinker, creative communicator, and global collaborator. The standard that stood out the most to me was the global collaborator. I like the global collaborator because i learn better using technology when working with other people and learning to use technology. one standard that is outside of my skill set is the creative communicator . I dont really understand the global communicator standard.
Digital natives are people who grew up using technology and understand how to use it more than people who didn't. I have seen a big difference in digital natives and digital immigrants. My niece is only two years old and she knows how to work a tablet and a cell phone better than me. she has taught herself the alphabet, her animals,colors, shapes, and a variety on nursery rhymes. i think it is easier for people who grew up using technology to tech others how to use technology. I believe my future students may be better at using technology than me since technology is growing everyday and I am still learning
Humble of you to observe that your students may be better at technology. They may be better at different technology, but you will always have the benefit of experience. Many students know mobile skills but lack fundamental computer skills.
ReplyDeleteCreative communicator is what you are learning now: How to communicate effectively in many platforms to various audiences. In the old days, the only ways we communicated in school was writing a paper and talking. Think how your communication changes with blogs and tweets.