Blog post #4

Jakiya Barber
February 13, 2017
EME 2040
Blog Post #4




       I've been using twitter for a while now. I'm actually extremely comfortable with it. I use twitter to   express how I feel about things, and I also like re tweeting the cute little life or relationship quotes. I've been pretty much interacting with tumbler pages I follow, and friends from home, and sometimes with my EME classmates. I enjoy using twitter a lot. I use it literally everyday. Using twitter is pretty beneficial for me because it allows me express my self and also read funny little memes. I don't believe twitter would be very helpful in my future career at all. I feel like twitter helps me more socially then career wise. twitter would be helpful for me in the future to maybe follow up on news and connect with my friends.
.
The digital divide is the gap between students who have access to the internet and students who do not. Some causes of the digital divide are students who have access to the internet because they can afford to have it and student who have little to no access to technology from more rural areas. Students who have access to technology are more comfortable using it and no more than students who rarely get to use technology unless they are in school. I know for me growing up it was harder for me to complete online assignments because I didn't have access to technology like my class mates did. As a teacher I may also have students and parents who do not have access to the internet. This may affect my teaching strategy because I do want my students to work online, however I know not everyone has access to the internet so I will do my best to have online work done at school. Also to help my students have access to technology, I could do a similar donation event like my high school did to raise money to be students laptops who did not have access to a computer at home. I still have my laptop and it has helped me a lot.

      The type of student software I expect to use the most is most likely educational games. Educational games help engage student learning in different content levels while practicing and playing a game. I know for me having games helped me learn a lot. I was more interested in learning when I played games that made the work more fun, I think I will use educational games the most because I will be teaching kindergarten. Kindergartners learn the basic standards like language arts, math, and science. They learn there numbers, spelling, and a little about people and plants. I observed this when I was doing my field study at FSUS.  I think educational games are great for learning and engagement for pretty much any grade. Examples of education games are Kahoot, sometimes quiz-let because you can play matching games, ABC mouse, fun brain, etc. There are plenty of online educational game sites that teachers can use to better their students learning.