OPTIONAL Digital Blog Post #B - Chapters 2 &/or 5

I am slowly learning that there is more to technology in the education field than I ever could have imagined. In chapter 2 of our textbooks there were many aspects that I found interesting and complexing. Today in my blood I will reflect on three of the concepts I found interesting. 

1.  My first concept that I will be the different types of advanced applications that are being used in classrooms across the nation. According to our textbook between 2010 and 2012 there were over 25 billion apps downloaded. Since this information is a little dated and the amount of involvement on technology has increased I am willing to bet that this number has increased greatly in the past 4 years. I found it extremely interesting that there are apps for History and shows virtual timelines of our history. This brings the saying "going back in time" to a whole new level! By integrating history into technology we are now giving it new life and showing it in a more interesting way to students. I strongly agree with using applications in a class room do to this. I believe that by using apps that bring things to life for students it will in return show a higher success rate with in the students. 
2. My 2nd concept I will reflect on is the Digital Divides. Digital divides are a growing problem that I believe needs to be solved as soon as possible. Coming from a place of understanding, I was born and raised in the middle of no where, our school was low income almost of our families were as well. Due to this, when I moved to college I had a little bit of a harder time adjusting to all of the different ways technology is used. With as fast as our technological world is moving this disadvantage could one day become a life altering issue that could prevent students from wanting to continue education or could discourage them from certain jobs. Of course, I am thing of the worst case scenario but it is still a scenario that could happen if we, the futures educators do not find a way to equal out the disadvantages.

My 3rd concept I would like to reflect on are TED talks. Although this was a small excerpt in chapter 2 I found it very important. I am a huge fan of TED talks due to the fact that I am an Audio and Visual Learner. I would like to see these in our course because of how well I do with relating them to lessons. I feel that other students, even younger ones could benefit from these videos just as I do.

https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/dpYl5Mgtmuz/?mode=presentation#/

Resources


Maloy, R., O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc.