My EME 2040

So far, on Twitter I've been interacting with the #FSUEdtech hashtag. I like this feature because it centralizes all of our classmate's tweets into one spot. I can view different educational articles that were posted using the hashtag. There's no digging or searching to find information, which I enjoy. It's all right there and it's current. Ive also been able to view professional educational twitter accounts which is helpful because I trust the information posted on these accounts. Especially if the accounts are verified by Twitter. In my future career I couldn't see myself using Twitter much, since I ideally want to teach elementary aged students. But if I was teaching secondary education I could see myself using it to post announcements and speak directly to students with a class hashtag. It's a more casual setting and students are more likely to regularly check Twitter than email. The digital divide creates a difference between students who have compute...

ELA technology standards: I’m confident in teaching my students independence very early, I think it’s an extremely valuable life skill, not just school skill. Kids should feel comfortable asking their own questions to obtain information and not rely on others to help them or do the research. I want students to create their own ideas and not need a step-by-step guide. I’m also prepared to teach students how to critique and question authors. I will constantly ask them to question and analyze and not to simply listen to the author. I will personally need to learn more about how to teach students to adjust to different audiences, and how to fluidly write while continuously coming back to one main purpose. It can be difficult not to sound repetitive when you constantly come back to your purpose, but you also don’t want to get off topic and end up in a different direction with your writing than where you started.  The age range of my students is 2nd-4th grade so using email to keep ...