Blog Post #L- Chapter 12

          Technology integration is something that most students find wonderful and great and helpful especially to visual learners. With technology, there are so many innovated apps and games that can help students with any subject such as math, reading, spelling and so forth. However, there are many debates as to whether or not it is helpful or instead worsens the students learning the ability. Some think that rather than help the student learn instead they will play games or surf the internet all day rather than pay attention to the teacher or play with those innovated apps. There are also those parents who believe that the students can learn so much from technology because it provides an array of information from all across the globe.

            Inclusion and Infusion of technology also plays an important role not only with students but also with the ones who introduce it, the educators. Educators must also learn the ways of technology and keep updated in order to help the students succeed. In order to do this, they too must take courses to keep up with the latest apps and software. This way technology is infused and used with academic core standards as well as NET-S

             Digital inequalities are definitely something that will be a problem that unfortunately many schools encounter even in the era that we are living in. In the school district, I live in recently upgraded to BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) program and it was mandatory for all the students to bring some sort of technology to school. Although I personally didn’t see this as an issue because most children seemed to have the latest and greatest phone however in the community this is when I realized not many have that privilege. For instance, a family member of ours that had three daughters in school had a difficult time  trying to get this because they only had one computer in which all the three girls shared to do homework and research for projects. We helped her overcome this issue but this isn’t the same for everyone else so renting or going to a public library is the best next thing one can do. In school children can use computers but at home isn’t always guaranteed that privilege and rely on public libraries or friends home. 

Resources:

10 Ways Students Can BYOD. (n.d.). Retrieved November 30, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BdV9Bq81X4

Digital Learning. (n.d.). Retrieved November 30, 2015, from http://www.collierschools.net/byod

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.