Danyel's Blog

      So far using Twitter for this class is very different than how I would regularly use it. Since I am using it for educational purposes, I am mainly interacting with other teachers or people who work in the education field. For example, during the live twitter chat, I was able to interact with a lot of different people and it was nice to be able to get so many ideas and just heard everyone's own opinion about the certain topic. I think Twitter will be very helpful in my future career. Interacting with others on the app has already made me consider how I want to run my future classroom and interact/communicate with my students.      When talking about the digital divide, that is referring to the gap between those with sufficient access to technology and those without. The digital divide is very prevalent in schools today, especially consider how the pandemic has shaped all schools to using online resources as a main source of education. Th...

      The ELA technology standard I chose was LAFS.2.L.3.4. This standards main focus is being able to clarify meanings of unknown words through the sentences context, the words prefixes, root word, and being able to use dictionaries and glossaries. I think I could implement this standard based on my own skill set. I have worked with children for years and even was a TA in a kindergarten classroom during all of my senior year, so I am very used to children always asking me what something meant. When they would ask me I would try and use a strategy already listen such as, asking them what the the word meant alone, then with the prefix, and then just put those definitions together.      The tool that I selected from CPALMS toolkit was for second grade science, Rock Elements, Inc. MEA. This is a lesson plan in which children work together to decide which type of would be best used for a rock garden. In this lesson, only one type of rock can be used and it is b...

      Copyright is when someone has exclusive rights to their work, and others can use this work as long as others pay attribute to said owner. Fair use is a set of guidelines that allow people to use said materials for educational and nonprofit purposes. As a teacher I would just assume all material is copyrighted. I would also encourage students to always use citations and learn how to protect their own work.      Technology implementation issues can be described as the social, legal, or even ethical issues children can face when using technology in a classroom. An example of a technology implementation issue would be cyberbullying. In my future classroom, this could be discouraged through conversations about how bad and the effects cyberbullying can have on people, also by monitoring what is going on on the technology that is being used. Another example would be academic dishonestly. This could be prevented by making sure all children are citing all...

      I do not have much experience using MS Word. I used it some during middle school, but soon I shifted to using Google Docs. I would prefer to use Google Docs really just because that is what I have used for so long. I know exactly how to use it and where everything is on it. I do not think using MS Word would be any harder, Google Docs has just always been more assessable to me.      The educator standard that is most meaningful to me would be to demonstrate cultural competency when communicating with students, parents, and colleagues and interact with them as co-collaborators in student learning. To me, this just means being away of outside or cultural effects that can influence life in a classroom , talking to others, or teaching. I think this is important because at least I have had some teachers that can be very oblivious to children having lives outside of school. You cannot know what everyone is going through, but you can at least be considerate ...