Blog Journal 5
My experience with twitter before this class was mainly to read about politics. I enjoy it. I enjoy debating online politics with people (in a calm fashion) and I enjoy expanding my worldview or vocabulary on the subject as it really interests me. In the future I hope to use it in a similar way and I believe that could help my future career (which may not be teaching).
One key components to the 'digital divide' is this concept that people who do not have access to the internet are less likely to make their concerns heard despite possibly having the most legitimate concerns. This has a fairly obvious effect on poverty-stricken schools across the world. When interviewing my old high school English teacher, one of the things they had to do due to the pandemic was provide students with fair equity in resources. The schools had to mail students with out internet access the material with detailed instructions as well as even envelopes and stamps to mail the work back. Of course this is still not fair as you are not receiving feedback for your work however this model of equity I believe can expanded upon if public schools were at least equally funded per student by school district.
There is a new app that has been getting recent buzz called clubhouse. Think zoom meets school club meets social media. I believe that students finding outlets that best reflect their identity is very important but can be lacking in schools. This way you can talk and listen to industry specialists for whatever you are interested in. I think having that can help some students productivity and self-esteem. Also I would more traditionally use top hat. This is a software that is essentially like kahoot but more readily available and malleable. You cam ask students questions and get immediate feedback/answers that could work towards participation or even be set on somethings to be anonymous.
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