Blog Journal 5


    I have been using twitter for about 4 years now. During this time twitter has been a highly personal and private, with my primary engagement being cultural and political posts and pages, along with the website being one of my primary sources for the news. Because of this, I find twitter to be an extremely enjoyable and personally educational, however I do think it to be extremely personal. So for the most part I do not believe that twitter will play major role in my educational toolbox.

 The digital divide, or the fact that access to technology is often correlated with economic status. This does and will continue to cause poor and working class students to fall behind the rich and managerial class students due to the later working with more tools. The cause is simple, access to technology costs money, and those with less of the later will not have the former. For this reason I intend to have as low tech options for my lesson plans to flatten the playing field as much as possible.

    The academic software I would use would probably be in the form of either trivia games for students to use to review (kahoot and others) or presentation programs for myself to give to students (PowerPoint, google slides, etc.). The first is simply for the fact that I think they provide a fun and simple way for students to practice and study, as well as providing a way to reward students for a job well done that is intrinsically valuable. The second is extremely valuable as it would be the primary way that I will present the information to my students. Thus, I would have to say that these forms of tech show my preference for low tech answers to education. 

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