Blog #9

The Flipped Classroom is a common approach to education that I experience in college more than ever. Students are now required to look at the information in the textbook or online before coming to class for the lecture. This helps students learn more and come in with questions prepared for clarification. I think this is a good way to use a multiple exposure strategy to teaching.

The digital divide is something I don't feel was too big of a gap growing up. However, now that I am in college and there are all types of students at FSU, I understand that there is a greater gap in those who have access to technology and internet. I think money comes into play a large amount when examining the digital divide because it costs a lot to use technology and the internet. Not only do you have to buy the technology, often times you also have to purchase the Wifi to surf the web, and other applications like Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, which are necessary skills for students to learn in present day. As a teacher, I feel as if you should send a survey home the first week of school for students' parents to answer that asks about their level of internet and technological access, this way teachers know whether or not to make the class more internet and computer based, or more paper and pen based. I do think it is extremely important to implement usage of the schools electronics in the classroom too, this way those who do not have access at home can still learn the required skills students need to know for their futures.

I enjoyed learning more about PowerPoint. I've always enjoyed making slide shows. This weeks PowerPoint was a lot more difficult to make than last weeks and it wasn't necessarily about the skills, it was more about the workload, because a 17+ page PowerPoint with so many requirements is actually really time consuming to do. Next time I can improve my PowerPoints for school using action buttons!
  

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