Blog Post 4

For this course, EME2040, I was a little uneasy about the Twitter assignment. I was afraid I would have a hard time remembering to tweet on two different days every week for the rest of the semester. I was also worried about not knowing what to tweet about. But, once we actually started doing this assignment, I was very surprised about how simple it actually was. I am an active Twitter user on a different account and I love the whole aspect of the app. Having an app used for a class is almost relieving because it's an ongoing assignment about something that I enjoy doing and using. So far, I have a few tweets that are made up of quotes found online, retweets from other people, replies to other students, and quote tweets from other accounts I follow. In the future, I believe searching up hashtags will help adults who are maybe out of the loop understand what is going on in their children or students generations.

Digital divide is a term that is used to describe the gap between people who have access and don’t have access to technology. A big issue that we have seen all across the world is that some people are very experienced and skilled in using technology such as computers but there are also people who have never used a computer for anything in their lives and have absolutely no experience. Within the school systems, some students do have computers at home and others need to go to a public facility in order to use a computer. As a teacher, it is very important to go over skills and techniques in the classroom so all students are learning the same information. If there is an assignment that needs the use of a computer, the teacher needs to make sure everyone has enough time to work on the assignment since some students might be going to the public library compared to other students who can use their home computer.

Within the school system I believe apps are very common to have on computers or iPads or whichever the technology the school offers. Apps are very easy to install and use within classrooms. They also provide an abundance of activities within one app. Although the most popular apps are social media apps, these educational apps will help students learn materials as well as play games to better understand the material. Presentation software is what I will most likely use most often to display the information to my students. A software program that I am least likely to use is electronic spreadsheet software. I am not one to normally make charts and graphs to organize my information so this software would not be beneficial. Another aspect in choosing software is the price. If a software costs money then most teachers will not purchase the software. Instead, they will find a different but similar software to use.