Blog Post #2

 Blog Post #2

    My experience with word doc started very early sometime in elementary school with just basic typing paragraphs. I can't remember my initial assignment that I had to complete on word doc, but I do remember typing words and printing them out at home to post around as "announcements" for my family. My brother also taught me how to copy and paste pictures on word doc in order to have a better lay out for printing. Word doc is the processing software I feel most comfortable with I really have not used any other processing software.

    The standard that is most meaningful to me is the learning standard because with technology growing and developing one must be able to learn grow with it. It means that educators must too also be open minded to learning more whether it is from IT people within your department or even students. I have first handedly given assistance to teachers that were not up to date with technology and they were open to accepting guidance from a student who has that certain knowledge. This standard is extremely important not only in relation to technology but also to anything else that an educator may need assistance with. 

    I agree with the label "digital native" for today's youth because we really are the first generation to have technology to this degree so normalized in society. There is definitely a difference between the "digital native" youth and the "digital immigrants" because we grew up with computers and cell phones in our hands while educators are learning something we know naturally. Educators now have to have cellphone policies and policies for online cheating where in their day it was normalized to smoke at school and would never imagine technology built into school curriculum. Especially now with COVID, school is entirely online and if this pandemic were to happen when most educators were in school they would not have been able to conduct learning in the student's homes.