Blog Post #5

 Admittedly, I have not been using Twitter as long as some others in this class. As a platform, I only started using it at the beginning of my senior year of high school, so approximately the past two and a half years. However, I have not used the platform for much educationally, and I have only really used it to absorb entertainment related information. Mainly articles and memes. I have friends who use the platform that I am connected with. This being said, I doubt Twitter will have much future impact educationally or otherwise. 

The digital divide is frankly, a scary concept. To think that the unequal access to technology can and will cause disparity in the workforce; I shudder at the thought. But I believe a distinction needs to be made between national and international digital divide. After all, a student in a poorer area of the United States will likely still have much more technological opportunity than that of students in war-torn Sudan. Funding for education based technology is the primary reason for the digital divide, but again, some places receive much more funding than others even if there is disparity on a national level. I would do my best to work around this as a teacher, but there is little I could do to fix it other than to volunteer my own resources for classroom use. 

In terms of academic software, it is absolutely a good idea to implement on a level of school board to school board. There are some pieces of software that seldom work (e.g. Reading Plus), despite the school board's insistence on its use, so one must be careful in deciding. If I had to pick two, Edmodo and Scratch would be my go to. Fact of the matter is, children love interaction and games. By making both educational in context, you help guide children towards enjoying school and education as a whole.