Blog journal entry 2

 1-20-22

Blog Entry 2

Throughout my education career, I have used Microsoft Word for so many things. Within my primary school experience, I used it mainly to write my papers and essays. Now I use it not only for my papers but to take notes for classes or meetings in my fraternity, as well as design outlines for projects or layouts for lesson plans. I honestly prefer this software over google docs or any other software because for me personally, I feel it is easy to navigate and to use. The tools are mostly self-explanatory and easy to find. To be able to save all my work easily to my laptop or personal cloud account which makes it easy to transport to anywhere I need online.

For the teacher standards, all of them are very important for a teacher to use within their classrooms, but the one that would be most important to me would most likely be the 2.3 Citizen standard. I say this because teaching kids giving them the knowledge to be able to go to college or advance intellectually within the world needs to be supported by the social aspect of society and technology is now a vital part of our own day-to-day lives. Especially in the past few years, our online presence is neccessary and the professional attitude for which we hold ourselves online has more attention spotlighted on it. With that teaching, our students proper and respectful ways to be online and to use the technological tools online can not online continue to build their knowledge intellectually but also teach them how to protect themselves and others online by showing them the respectful way to act while in certain situations.

I do agree with the term "Digital Native" because if you really look at the way in which my generation grew up we were not only exposed to technology early on into our development but we also grew up along with the technological developments that we see today. For instance the year I was born (2001) flip phones still had a heavy presence and so did pagers, but now the younger generations after me have no clue what those are. My generation evolved with the technology and we navigated every change so our understanding and skill with it are extensive to say mildly. When looking at the relationship of the "Natives vs the Immigrants" I have seen a difference but only mildly. Most of my teachers have learned and explored technology to more extensive lengths than I but for me knowing how to use technology is almost a second language and so sometimes they show me things that I didn't even know. But I did have some teachers who did struggle with even the basic technology which sometimes I felt hindered my learning at times.

Online badges are actually very unknown to me. I have never used badges or come across them so my ability to speak on this matter is very scarce.

A.J Klune