When I began using social media for Personal Learning Networks, I had started with Instagram. On Instagram, I interacted with #teachertalk, leaving a comment on one of their posts. I found it beneficial as it gives great advice of keeping calm and choosing which battles to fight with students, showing the importance of having responsibility and maturity when teaching students. If was were to use either Instagram or Twitter in the future, it would most likely to be advertise and completed written works of mine.
Digital divide affects student success in school as they tend to have lower academic performances and they tend to have less access to information to further their studies. What is probably one of the main causes of digital divide is the inaccessibility technology can be for low income families. Some ways that this could affect certain teaching strategies that I use when teaching kids, as some students may fall behind during certain lessons if they aren't familiar with technology outside of class. Another way that this could affect the way I teach students is how I give out homework, as this means that having homework that involves technology will cause students that don't have the means to use technology will in turn suffer.
There are two type of software tools that I would like to use for my future students. I would use Google Chrome, as it is an incredibly safe search browser, and it allows easy access to various other Google apps. Another software tool I would use would be Google Docs. Docs is much easier to use than something like Microsoft Word, as Docs is free, easy to open up in Google Drive, and much easier to edit and perform various actions than Word does.
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