Blog Post #1
I believe students and teachers use technology in the classroom because it is simply an excellent resource that we are lucky to have in our schools. Technology allows access to information and research that would never have been reachable if it were not for the internet. Therefore, technology increases the quality of education.
As a student, and as a human being, I think it is critical to be an exemplary Digital Citizen. So often in today's world, children, teens, and adults do not think enough about what they put on social media and the internet, and ultimately how that reflects back on them and how the world will perceive them. I myself have always been extremely cautious of what I am putting out there for the world to see and aware of how that may influence how people view me. Furthermore, I believe it is crucial for everyone, but especially kids and teenagers to make all of their accounts private to ensure that predators and dangerous online users cannot find any substantial information about them or their lives. In my opinion, I have always been very good at this, making all of my accounts private and never sharing my location as you can do on Snapchat now.
While I am an exemplary Digital Citizen, I could definitely improve as a Global Collaborator. I hate to admit that I have never used technology as a means to communicate with individuals from other cultures as a way to increase my knowledge of different cultures and methods of learning. The closest I am to being a Global Collaborator right now is through the use of Snapchat and Whatsapp, as those are the two apps I use to communicate daily with my best friend who lives in Stuttgart, Germany. One aspect of being a Global Collaborator that I do have experience with is working with a team to accomplish a common goal. I am a very good team player.
Overall, I do agree that you can blanket label today's youth as digital natives. However, I would not include myself under that blanket, even though I was born when the internet existed, as I spent all of my childhood outside and never even knew about social media (except Facebook) until I was 14. Digital Natives are those individuals whom technology comes naturally to. These individuals learn how to use technology quickly, are comfortable with technology, and essentially, cannot learn in an environment that does not utilize technology in some way. I have seen a slight difference in how adept I am at using technology and how adept my professors are at using it, but the gap between us is usually small. The only real difference I have encountered is sometimes my professors will not know how to control the volume or make the screen big and I can help with that, but these are very minuscule things that have no effect on my educational experience. However, I anticipate huge differences between me and my future students, especially because I feel I know less about technology than my peers. I will definitely need to become more skilled in educational technology sources, but as I want to be a literature professor, this is not as critical for me as our main focus will be classic books which there are no changing versions of.
As a student, and as a human being, I think it is critical to be an exemplary Digital Citizen. So often in today's world, children, teens, and adults do not think enough about what they put on social media and the internet, and ultimately how that reflects back on them and how the world will perceive them. I myself have always been extremely cautious of what I am putting out there for the world to see and aware of how that may influence how people view me. Furthermore, I believe it is crucial for everyone, but especially kids and teenagers to make all of their accounts private to ensure that predators and dangerous online users cannot find any substantial information about them or their lives. In my opinion, I have always been very good at this, making all of my accounts private and never sharing my location as you can do on Snapchat now.
While I am an exemplary Digital Citizen, I could definitely improve as a Global Collaborator. I hate to admit that I have never used technology as a means to communicate with individuals from other cultures as a way to increase my knowledge of different cultures and methods of learning. The closest I am to being a Global Collaborator right now is through the use of Snapchat and Whatsapp, as those are the two apps I use to communicate daily with my best friend who lives in Stuttgart, Germany. One aspect of being a Global Collaborator that I do have experience with is working with a team to accomplish a common goal. I am a very good team player.
Overall, I do agree that you can blanket label today's youth as digital natives. However, I would not include myself under that blanket, even though I was born when the internet existed, as I spent all of my childhood outside and never even knew about social media (except Facebook) until I was 14. Digital Natives are those individuals whom technology comes naturally to. These individuals learn how to use technology quickly, are comfortable with technology, and essentially, cannot learn in an environment that does not utilize technology in some way. I have seen a slight difference in how adept I am at using technology and how adept my professors are at using it, but the gap between us is usually small. The only real difference I have encountered is sometimes my professors will not know how to control the volume or make the screen big and I can help with that, but these are very minuscule things that have no effect on my educational experience. However, I anticipate huge differences between me and my future students, especially because I feel I know less about technology than my peers. I will definitely need to become more skilled in educational technology sources, but as I want to be a literature professor, this is not as critical for me as our main focus will be classic books which there are no changing versions of.
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