Blog #2
Blog #2
Experience with MS Word:
I have always used MS Word since third grade when we had to write our very own short story. It had to be at least a page and you had to have at least one photo. Now, I am aware that I grew up in the time computers were accessible in all schools, however the internet and Office Word was still fairly new. Looking back on it because my generation was going to be more experienced and have further access to this technology our teachers did their best to implement it into our learning. As a current college student, the Internet and MS Office is a daily use for me.
I have used Google Docs, I do find it useful for group projects when we can simultaneously work on the same paper or PowerPoint. However, I always seem to fall back to MS Word probably because I understand the works of it the most, and have used it for such a long time.
ISTE Standards for Educators:
What stood out to me was the term Designer. Only for the fact that all students learn differently. Also in a world where technology is always evolving, teachers must keep up to date on the use of that technology. They must be creative in how they implement it into their teaching material for the younger generation. Also creativity in their delivery of that material. Using all access that they can with the technology can better the younger generation to understand it and use it in the form best fitted individually.
Opinion on "Digital Native"
I do agree with the term "digital native" because those younger than us will have more access to technology therefore learning how to use it comes faster than the older generation who is unfamiliar with it. Digital Native means younger generations becoming more equipped with the knowledge to use technology and further advances in it. I do recognize it in my own family. My parents know the basics of computers, the internet, and MS Office. Whereas, for me I know a bit more on how a computer operates externally and internally on a basic level. Or being able to understand a phones personal "ticks n tricks" quicker than my parents. My younger brother (4 years younger) knows way more on how to work a phone, use advance technology that I am unaware about, as the same with computers, his personal PS4 and all the "ticks n tricks" of those technologies. In some cases even myself will have to ask my brother on certain aspects that I seem to not understand that he has learned on his own. The younger generation will always be increasingly smarter and more creative in aspects dealing with technology as technology evolves.
What about students who are not lucky enough to have computers at home and phones in their hands? What if you teach K-12 students in an underprivileged community or country?
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