As we age as a society, we attain new knowledge, and life and education are moving so fast that its hard to live a life in modern day America where one does not face technology. Its the future! There are touch screen soda vending machines, who needs that? Maybe I am sounding old fashioned which is funny because I like to think I'm hip. Ease of managing classes is a good reason for teachers to implement technological assignments for their students. This elicits a good way of transferring knowledge. For instance, we can now make presentations with group mates we never meet. It is now becoming requirements for students in high school to have the proper proficiency for technology as it is for language learning. It is also a great way to communicate, my middle school cousin gets text reminders from her teacher so she doesn't complete her work late.
The ISTE standards show desired qualities which consider technological ability and ways we can attain it. I liked reading the most about creativity as I feel creative and I am a rather "manual" type of person. One that I feel I might struggle with is the role of the facilitator. I believe that we should facilitate agency for our students, but in practice it is a bit harder especially with an older crowd. When a group has been taught just to repeat what is told and learn by rote, how can we implement autonomy better?
I think I can agree with the definitions of digital native and immigrant but term choice could be better. One is considered a native when one is born during/after technology's rise. I would be one of those. You could say my parents are but they were born before the boom in accessibility. I remember going crazy when teachers would type google searches with unnecessary words, but I just might know as little as them in comparison to my tech savvy 12 year old cousin. I didn't learn ctrl + f until I was in college! I could have been a better student.
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