Blog Post #2
I have little to no experience using MS Word. None of my previous educators have required it or used it in any way. The little I do know about Word is through my family who uses it. I've helped my mom with papers she was working on while getting her masters degree online and her university used Word, but that the only time I've worked with the platform. I am however extremely comfortable with Google Docs, Slides, etc.. This is what I've use all throughout my whole educational career and it's become my go-to for personal things as well. I like that I can connect it on my phone and edit from there, because it makes things a little bit easier.
Originally, the ISTE standard that stood out the most to me was collaborator. I think collaboration is so important in creating a unique educational design so all of your students can get the most out of their education. Collaboration includes so many people in the educational process. Working with your coworkers, administration, students and parents ensures that you get the most feedback possible to work through possible struggles or unsurety. Working closely with students and parents specifically can be incredibly enlightening to each individual students needs, what they like or dislike about your classroom, and ideas to help that student thrive. I do understand that this form of collaboration can be extremely time consuming and tiring for the teacher, and that there is unlikely a teaching style that is going to work for all students. With this is mind I think another important ISTE standard to consider is leader. Sometimes you have to take control, work with what you have and do what's best for the majority.
I do agree with the term digital native for todays generation. Yes, there are exceptions. Children raised in households where technology is banned or severely limited, or go to schools that try to keep technology to a minimum might not be as caught up as their peers in the world of technology. Overall however, children born now are born with access to so many tools and entertainment available online. They are exposed earlier than people in other generations, and become more adept at navigating both the platforms they're familiar with and the ones they aren't. In the classroom, technology is implemented more than ever, and teachers who are digital immigrants are doing their best to keep up. There is a certain quickness that the digital native generation has to figuring out technology that digital immigrants may not have, and they have to spend more time both finding online resources and figuring out how to use them to introduce them to their classrooms. In the future though, with more and more people identifying as digital natives, the discrepancy between teachers and students ability to use technology efficiently might decrease. I don't see it fully vanishing, a
s there are always new and upcoming technologies coming into play, and students have more time to explore those than teachers do, but we'll see!
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