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Blog Journal #1: The 21st century classroom, ITSE, and being a "Digital Native"


 The 21st century classroom needs technology in order to better suit the 21st century student. Education and the classroom should not be a place that is behind the times but a place that mimics the same technological environment that the students are accustomed to at their homes. This will also allow students to see the capability of technology in the educational context. The ability to search for knowledge and data has been expedited and revolutionized because of tech therefore we have to evolve our curriculum to talk about and use this in the formal setting of the classroom.

The International Society of Technology in Education is a a steward in allowing this evolution to happen in the classroom. There standards for both students and educators allows a guideline of how one can integrate and use tech in education. For me personally, the role for educators to be collaborators is very important to tech success in education. The development of resources for both students and educators need a constant stream of collaboration between a diverse and large community that can share their own perspective to both better themselves and the system. This could be through crowd-sourcing or the development of personal PLNs to get resources and ideas from other people. A standard that I find outside my skill set is teaching my future students how to be digital citizens. This term is becoming ever more complicated  as we look more and more of the tangible results of things that start in the internet. How do countries and people police things that started online but ended in reality? and how can educators ingrain a new set of skills of principles of kids to think when they are online? 

This translate to the topic of "digital natives" because if one can argue that there is a gap between groups of generations when it comes to digital literacy and those that are suggested to be "digital immigrants "are in places of powers, how can properly look at the digital citizenship. Do reforms, both educational and more broad, have to wait in till the generations that some deem as "digital natives" to be in power to be enforced? I think that waiting on the solution when we can make one now is not a great strategy. All people, regardless of when they are born, have the capability to become accustomed to the digital world and help future generations in the process. This also applies to the role of teachers as they need to become digital natives to allow them not be stuck in the past and utilize new and innovate ways for educating with the help of technology.






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