Blog Journal 4

I apologize, but I have been having trouble accessing my twitter account and have realized today that I may need to make a new one. When I typed in my username and password, it said that one or both of the two were invalid. When I then only typed my username in it said that my account was not found. If there is a way to catch up on the tweets and retweets I have missed and get partial credit, I will tweet and retweet for the weeks I have missed. Twitter seems like a helpful educational tools because it is an easy way to share articles that relate to material as well as briefly express how one feels about an educational topic without boring a reader with a long essay.

The digital divide causes there to be a difference in the digital capabilities students have access to at home. To compensate for this, I think teachers need to be aware of what capabilities their students have and gear their lessons in ways that allow students to, if they don't have it at home, use the digital technology necessary in school. If the school cannot afford the technology, then it may be best not to make it an essential tool for completing the assignment. I think teachers should use technology to better their class, but should not rely on it as a necessary tool for students to do their assignments with.

Since I plan to be an English teacher, one software that I expect to use it Reading Blaster, which is an educational game referenced in Chapter 8 that "engages the learner while providing practice" (Mcdonald and Lever-Duffy). I can see myself using this software to give my students reading comprehension practice as well as practice with grammar. I could also see myself using the reference software Encyclopedia Britannica, which I'd be able to use to help give my students a way of looking things up that they needed for assignments in a more focused way than google or bing searching whatever they needed to find.

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