Required+Learning

__**Reflection....**__

My first year of a teacher I hope that I will know a lot more about technology than I do now because it is ALWAYS growing. I think that for in some instances my students may be teaching me things and in other instances I will be teaching them. The way technology works will be different for all ages depending on how they grew up and what they used in the household and for pleasure.Students will differ at the same ages whether or not they grew up in the same decade. In the later years students will be more versitile with technology from being exposed to it at an earlier age and that being what they are used to. Being a teacher you also have to consider what and how you are going to teach students when their in low poverty areas. These children will not be exposed to the kinds of technology that the children with the higher income levels will be.I see 21st Century Skills becoming so great that it is going to get to a certain point that it still needs human interaction. Even though technology is beocming less human based in the digital world, I think that people are still going to need other people because technology cannot do everything. If technology is limited in the classroom in a low poverty area, I will use whatever I have to have the classroom work together to be as fair as possible. I can use skype in the classroom to connect with students in other areas of the world, create google docs to streamline questionnaires to use in calculations for math, process blogs to document the history that we are currently making. I can use Twitter to show the children how they can connect with their parents and let them know what they did in class that day. They will be reflecting back on what they had learned and learning new things about technology all at once.

media type="custom" key="12516998" The video that we watched in class about your identity and how it is started before you are even born is scary! It made me want to get online and try and delete everything just because it is so easy for someone to steal your identity. This is very hard though to delete things because when you create a Myspace, Facebook, or even Twitter, that company owns everything that you put on there and even if you delete your account it is still in the system somewhere.

__**Three technology tools or resources for each 21st century skill:**__ Collaboration-Google.docs, Wikispaces, Voki Innovation-Voki, Blogs, and Widgets Problem Solving- Smartboards, Bubbl.ud, and Twitter Critical Thinking-Smartboards, Twitter and bubbl.us Creativity- This could really be any of the technology tools; here are 3, Pinterest, Vokie and any type of blog.