#4: Twitter, Software, and Websites

#1: Using Twitter throughout the beginning of this course has gone pretty smoothly. Since I already knew how to move around on Twitter, nothing too difficult has popped up that I couldn't figure out. I have been interacting with many of my classmates, the EME2040 account, and some of the educational accounts that I follow. I have found interacting with these different accounts have been beneficial towards because I am learning about educational problems going on that I would've never thought about. Twitter could be helpful in my future career because information spreads very quickly on this social media, and I believe in the education field, information needs to be spread to educators and administration quite quickly.

#2: In today's world, the digital divide is the children knowing how to live without a computer, and the one's that have not known a world without technology. Since all of the children of today's world in preschool, elementary school, middle school, and even high school are considered digital natives and haven't gone through any schooling without technology, their success through these different active learning software has been affected in a good way. Through things like tutorials and drill-and-practice, educational games, and simulations the students are engaged with the concepts and it promotes different kinds of learning. With desktop publishing, graphics, and reference students are able to enhance their visual learning skills. The students could make things such as flyers, posters, worksheets, etc. With the special needs and ISL, integrated learning systems, software, it targets specific concepts and helps the students effectively learn those concepts. I believe that sometimes when children are dependent on technology its a very bad thing, but I believe that these kinds of software help the students still be dependent on their own minds.

#3: When evaluating websites, I believe people need to consider whether the website is actually helpful to the reason why they are on it in the first place. When someone goes looking for a website, they usually want something that is going to contribute to their cause in a good way. A website needs to look very neat and professional for me to keep exploring on it. I think websites need to keep a person's attention because if it doesn't, they will click 'exit' in a blink of an eye. Websites are one of the most popular ways for people to get information from, and the website needs to consider people's different opinions and try to stay unbiased to everything.