Someday I
hope to be a teacher for young students, such as Kindergarten and First Grade.
Now that technology is so prominent in society, it is safe to say that it will
most likely be in these younger grades when I become a teacher. A technology
that I think will hold the biggest promise in education is the digital badges.
This is the first year I had ever heard of digital badges and EME2080 was the
first class I had ever heard of that used them. With that being said, when I
received my first one, it was much more exciting than I expected. This is why I
think it will be pivotal in learning. Children love being rewarded and having
digital badges awarded will give them the motivation to reach the milestones
needed to advance to the next grade. The badges remind me of Girl Scouts and
Boy Scouts. So many children stick with that organization to achieve the badges
for their sash. It’s the same with learning. If students get rewarded for the
basics, they will enjoy school more at a younger age and hopefully build a
strong foundation for years to come.
Another
technology that I think will impact education is the Kindle. I think that these
devices will replace most books and then the student just carries around the
tablet that holds any textbook possible within it. I believe that this will
become a big part of education because it is more efficient than carrying
around a textbook per class. This will also be helpful for younger grades too
because you can add reading games and math applications to the Kindle so they can
practice anywhere.
The digital
divide is the gap of people who do and do not have technology in their homes.
I, personally, have technology at home so I am on the technological side of the
divide. I have technology in both my apartment in Tallahassee and in my home in
Tampa. This will most likely affect my future classroom, because, as the
podcast said, not every student will have access to the Internet or even a
computer. Students who have computers and Internet at home are thought to be at
an advantage over the students who do not and this will become a challenge
because I will have to come up with assignments that are technologically
neutral or that can be done during class when the student has access to the
school computers. I remember in high school, to make sure students had the
chance to do the research for a project; teachers would take us as a class to
library to use the computers. This way the students who didn’t have a computer
at home could do all their research then and there then would just have to do
the written portion.
No comments:
Post a Comment