Hey everyone! Time for Blog Post #4!

So early twitter is going okay... It's kind of a chore to keep up with to be honest. I never use twitter in a professional way, personally. I either tweet memes or articles I find interesting, but nothing really education related. So it's hard to be professional on something that you're used to using for anything that's as unprofessional as possible (like dank memes).

The digital divide affects schools because students who don't have the same technological skills as others have fewer skills, a harder time adapting to changing technological environments, and have less confidence in their skills. Causes simply lay in class divides. A student from a working class family in a lower class neighborhood does not have the same capabilities as a wealthier student from a more prosperous community. Even though students without computers can go to libraries for school, accessibility is still a problem here, and more underprivileged communities are not as up to date as wealthier communities. This would be very difficult to address as a teacher. Perhaps group work would help with this, so students can work together if not everyone has a computer, with established meeting times in a computer lab or library.

Lastly, I feel like all of the software mentioned in the chapter can be really helpful for learning. I would probably more emphasize Reference, tutorial, database, and problem solving softwares more, though. Reference software goes hand in hand with the Copyrights chapter we just had, too! And tutorials are important because especially if there's a digital divide, not everyone in the classroom may know how to do certain things, so it's good to have everyone go through tutorials. Also, navigating databases is tricky, but with tutorials and in class use, they should be really helpful! And lastly, problem solving is a critical part of learning, so that's definitely a must for the classroom.

And that's it! Until next