Students may be exposed to technology at school but not always at home. Not all families still have a computer with internet at home for students to use in homework assignments. It is hard to believe but, students living in today’s times are not surrounded by the tools that they may need. You and I would think that a computer or the internet is a given in a young persons life! Not so because their family may be Digital immigrants and not think it is necessary. Just a year ago I got a smart phone and I am still learning how to use it. To send pictures to email accounts and download things on my phone just seems so star trek! How can we make sure that the students are ready for a world that is on it’s way when they do not have access? Educators must do our part and surround them with the vocabulary and interaction. We could just jump on the web for everything but, it must have purpose. Educators can use technology as a lesson enrichment to make the learning updated. The student can still learn and have a product they have to create using the internet and great language arts. They can use computers to create poems or papers. They can find websites that help back their learning and it can all work together with learning targets and objectives that meet the standards for learning. We as educators must think deeper and search ourselves for more “I can” statements to help our student learning with 21st century technology.
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