Blog Post #2

     My experiences with Word in the classroom have been limited to the browser version before this class. It's a bit disorienting to me just how vast of a difference there is between the two, but seeing just how many more options there are I'm learning the benefit of the Word app. I have tried to use Google Docs for personal writing projects, but it was more pain than it was worth, so I've stuck to using Word since. It's not unusable, but no being used to using Google's version I just decided to stick to what I know best.

    I believe that the most important ISTE standard to me is being an online citizen. Morals and ethics are very near and dear to me, so teaching children how to be kind, responsible, and safe online citizens is something that means a lot to me. Being able to guide them down a responsible online path and hopefully save them from some grief of the online world would mean more than some will ever know. I was not given much access to the internet or how it works, and so by design I had very little information on how to conduct myself on the web. Being so uninformed put me behind my peers and left me more isolated than not, but even some basic information about the internet and the web would have allowed me to be so much more connected to my peers, and that is an unfortunate part of my childhood that I won't be able to truly get back.

    Using the term digital native seems like it could be true in some cases, but at the same time it truly depends on how the child is raised. I was raised in the timeframe of digital natives, but had much less exposure to technology than both others my age and my own sister who was born only 4 years after me. Being a digital native essentially means that the person grew up and around technology, and thus has a greater understanding of it. I have seen differences between my teacher's technology abilities and my peers, but I still often found myself with even less ability than they had, aside from on YouTube. Even I knew by 5th grade that if you moved the mouse cursor off of the pause/play button that the progress bar of the video would go away and leave the video easier to see. Finally, I don't anticipate that much of a difference between my technological abilities and that of my students, but at the same time some kindergarteners already have phones, so who really knows where they and the level of technology will be by the time I get there.

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