Blog Post #1

  For teachers, technology’s usage is influenced by a number of things. Including, the need of assistance in performing a variety of administrative tasks, and supporting an instructional event. Classroom technology can offer teachers and students effective, efficient, and tireless support for all of these purposes.

          Out of the ISTE standards the NETS-T standard is the most meaningful to me. Mainly because this standard is for evaluating the knowledge and skills that teachers should have. This is very important because all teachers should be kept up to date with anything new in our education system no matter what it is. They need to be informed on what’s going on so that they can best react to student behavior and student knowledge. If a teacher lacks new information, the teacher won’t be able to do their job to the best of their ability due to their falling behind. We don’t want that. We want them to be as far ahead of the schedule as possible so they can be at the top of their game when they are teaching our children.

          One standard that seems to be a little outside of my current skill set would be the NGA. Mainly because I don’t know much about this organization at all and they didn’t elaborate on it in this article.
I do agree with the label “digital native” for today’s youth because that’s all they know. They are so hooked on iPads, iPhones, musically, online games, etc. that they lose sight on the real world.
A digital native is a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and therefore familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age.

          I see a huge difference between how most of your teachers and I use technology. Majority of my peers and I have become so accustomed to technology that it’s hard to live without it. We literally run to technology for every single thing we need and most of all, entertainment. It has been both a positive and a negative influence on my learning because I’ve learned easier ways to do things and easier ways to get the answer. This is both good and bad because it saves time and effort but you really don’t know how to get the answer without the training wheels. I’d rather learn both ways so that I always have a plan B and better yet, the more I know the more I can accomplish.
As far as technology with my future students, just like I said in my previous paragraph, I’ll show them both ways to go about getting work down in the classroom. With anything to be honest. It’s always better to know more than one way to do things because it’s better to be safe than sorry in my book.