Blog 4

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  Everyone uses twitter, it is a form of communication between individuals near and across the world. This form of communication can be surface level relationships and it can make deep friendships that you never thought were possible. This is done by watching the person tweet things about their day and aspects of life they find inspiring. Finding similar things you have in common and sharing opinions is a great part of twitter.I have experienced this through our EME class conversations and interactions on twitter. It feels great when people retweet your quotes and share the same education ideals as other future educators. I have interacted with classmates and we also retweet each other because we sometimes we find that we use the same quotes which shows how powerful those quotes are and the resonation it has with people in society.
     As we move through the class, we discuss issues such as the digital divide . This is a big issues in a lot of schools. The digital divide is really based on students not having access to technology, although teachers continue to make it apart of assignments. This can be detrimental to a student's success because students in low income families most likely do not have access to computers and articles they need to complete assignments. Causes of the digital divide can be low income family issues, single parent incomes and family issues can come into play as well. This can have an affect how teachers conduct their classrooms because society is becoming heavily based on technology. This can leave students who can not afford technology behind and stunt their education growth within the classroom and also stunt teaching strategies that are needed for a bigger percentage of the class.I as a teacher can provide technology within the classroom for students to be able to complete their homework and assignments that require technology.
Student software can help a lot of students educate and exercise their minds by practicing outside of a lecture based environment. There are two student softwares I would like to incorporate within my class room for 9th grade mathematics. One of them being Math Mechanixs and the other being GeoGebra, I want my students to be able to teach themselves through this software and also make it fun for them by encouraging this type of behavior with technology.

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Barbarian Poodle