Blog Post #6

Class Page

The website I found was for Central Tree Middle School. There was a specific tab on the website that listed all of the teachers by grade and subject. I chose to look at Ms. Alberghini’s page. She is a sixth-grade math teacher. Her specific page on the website is used for reminders and holds links to all assignments. I think this is very helpful in that you are able to reach this information while at home and parents are able to keep track of what is going on and what their children should be doing once home. I am attaching a link to this teachers site and will also attach a screenshot of her home page. https://sites.google.com/wrsd.net/msalberghini

Digital Divide

I believe that you could make sure that a digital divide will not play a role in your classroom. It could become an issue if you are a teacher and are assigning videos and homework assignments that need the internet in order to be completed. If this was the case and you had some students who had access to the internet at home and some who did not, those without the internet would begin to fall behind and worry about their grades.

Some of the causes of the digital divide depend on your family’s SES. If you look at a family who is living an upper-middle class lifestyle, they are more likely to have technology in their home for their children to use. With the lack of technology in the home, the student might begin to “fall behind” other students in understanding how to work a computer and accomplish assignments. It could also add a lot of stress for the students who do not have technology and this is not something that children should have to be worrying about.

Depending on the community I work in, I would take my surroundings into consideration. I think it could be very helpful to send out a survey for parents complete which will indicate the amount of technology in the household. Therefore, this could help you to better understand the acceptable amount of assignments requiring the internet. I believe that not being able to use technology should not in any way affect my teaching strategies. Everything that you might want your students to do at home can be printed for them. Also, if you wanted to give your students the opportunity to work on computers, you could make sure to schedule time at the computer lab where they could complete some work and also better learn about computers and how to work on the different software’s.

Twitter

In the beginning, I was a little hesitant about having to use twitter for this class. I did not understand the point of it and thought it would be an added stress. I have interacted with a few students and vice versa. I believe it has actually been very beneficial as it is a quicker form of communication and also opens up the opportunity to talk with your peers in a more casual setting. I have not experienced any issues with using Twitter and am excited to keep up with it. I believe that it could be beneficial in the future for a variety of careers. It could give you the opportunity to communicate and meet a lot of people in your field and to share ideas!

Comments

I commented on both Morgan and Alexis' blog post. I felt that they both posted very meaningful post and I felt as though I could relate to what they were saying.