Blog Post #4

       Twitter scares me. I really have no idea what I'm doing or exactly how to use it. Because I feel so uncomfortable, I have avoided interacting with people one on one. Hopefully as the semester progresses, I will start to warm up to Twitter. I can recognize all the different ways twitter can be beneficial but, until I feel more confident about what I am doing I will not feel like I am benefiting from Twitter.

       When a class room is filled with the majority of  students who come from areas where there was an abundance of technology, teachers tend to forget about the few students who have little to none experience with technology. When a teacher assumes all of their students are up-to-date with the newest technology and give assignments based on those assumptions, the digital divide becomes evident. The digital divide happens when a school contains a mixture of rural and suburban students, and can be seen when teachers use technology in their classroom. There will be the kids that know more about the computers in the lab than the teachers, and there will be kids that are unsure how to log into the computer. With the modern advancements of technology becoming more abundant and cheaper, students will have greater access to technology even if they grew up in a home without technology. As the world progresses so does the availability of technology in classrooms. By the time I become a teacher,there will probably be less of a digital divide but, regardless of the development and progress of technology, there will be students who are behind others.      

       As a teacher, the software I would be most likely to use the least would be concept mapping software. From what I have gathered, concept mapping soft ware is like making a virtual outline or brainstorming sheet. Personally, I have never been one to sit a brainstorm. Most of the time ideas pop in my head when I least expect it or I tend to scribble down loose concepts that I later expand on. Also, I am a bit unsure of what concept mapping exactly is so, before I were to use it, I would need to do some research behind it.Though I may not use concept mapping, I will most definitely use Academic databases and tutorials. I have always been fond of literature. Literature are pieces of work left up to the audience to interpret and analyze based on their own imaginations and reasoning. Using academic databases are an amazing way to find all different types of literature with out taking lots of time to do so. I could refer my students to a particular database, so that they could take their own time to read and make sense of the authors purpose as well as using the database for their own personal exploration and discovery.