reflection of chapter 1 & 2

Reading reflection of chapter 1 & 2
After reading those two chapters, I think lots.The 21st century is a technology and data century. People could not live without technology. People are habituated to use some digital productions in their daily life such as contacting people with mobilephones, searching imformation with computers, and enjoying entertainment programs with TV.
As the author mentioned in chapter 1 on page 17 "One key element of your digital identity as a teacher will be the ways you use computer technologies and Web 2.0 tools to create highly interactive, inquiry-based  learning environments in K-12 classrooms.", I think it is nessary to built interaction circle between teacher and students. Firsst, even though teachers stays with students about 5 or 6 hours per day,they need to manage 20-30 students. Teachers could not assess every students' learning results and anwser every students' question on the class. Then, not all of students have chance to present their own opition when they learn new knoledge. In that sittuation, students could not share their personal opitions of new knowledge to their classmates. The imfortion could not convey. I think the impotant of education is not make sure students could know the new imfortion, it is help students build criticle thinking mind and use new knowledge in their daily life. All in all, teachers could solve these disadvantages throug by using technology. They could buit a disscuss community online and put all of students in it in order to acheive imformation sharing. Howerver, as the technology of education developed rapidly, it occurs a problem which are called digital divides and participation gaps. Author write it on page 32 in chapter two : " Digital divides and participation gaps affect mainly low- income, nonwhite, urban, and rural youngsters, and occur when students do not have access to the latest technologiges at school or at home."   For the people who are low-income group, they could not offer a computer or digital product for their children. So, yongerest child could not finish their homework or take part in discuss activity online independently at home. I think school need to spend lots of time and fund to solve this problem.


Question:
1, I think technology is not only help students advance their academic knowledge and ability, but also have a bad effact on them which is they may only immersed in some entertainment program such as internet games. How did you avoid this situation?

2, What do you think about digital divides and participation gaps?
3, How did you use technology in your class?

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Technology has effect human's life a lot. I think manage blogger is a quit difficult work for me. Even though I am not very clearly about how to use this, it gets better that I know how to follow and read others' blogs. From picture that Dr.chen showed us. I know the changed from past until now.

goal of 7266

personal goal for 7266


Even though I could use computer to do some simple things like playing games, reading books and shopping on the website, I am really not good at making educational tools with technology of computer such as creating interesting courseware. I also have trouble with  fixing simple computer issues. For example, I don't know how to find back the document that I lost it unguarded. I don't know how to wake up my laptop if it suddenly dead. And how to put some short movies or some voiced documents in my power point, etc.
In my mind, I think the role of teacher is assistant students learning new knowledge and make sure they could understand and use these in their daily life. However, sometimes, studying is quit boring. I think teacher need to figure out methods to attract students' sight and help them obtain knowledge. This time, I think computer technology could help teachers solve this problem.
I strongly believe that technology could bring colorful education content to my classroom.

my personal goal for learning this course:
1 putting interest video on my power point in order to let students learn theoretical knowledge and watching the real example at the same time.
2 putting some colorful pictures on my power point in order to catch students' attention.
3 learning how to edit students' home work with technology such as using certain software tools to check if they cheat paper of others.
4 I could fix simple computer issues by myself.