blog post #5!

     When I first started using Twitter, it was actually quite a while ago. When I was younger, I was super chronically online and into things like celebrities, so I started using Twitter in middle school. I can definitely say that it was confusing, and with such a big platform, there is genuinely every kind of person present, which is both a good and bad thing. Twitter, however, has incredibly interesting appeal to how it can be used educationally, as well as in the future. As a platform, Twitter is incredibly fast-paced, which definitely makes it easy to get information out. The short-form type of posting that it supports is both good and bad, as it makes it simple for quick information to arrive in short bursts. However, because of this, you cannot communicate the full picture to every individual that reads it, which often makes it easy to have conflicting information or knowledge on something. 

    The digital divide is a large issue within American culture, but this is mostly due to economic difference. It's difficult to give one true standard when giving resources as a teacher, as assigning online homework to students who do not have internet access is often limiting. However, along with the turn of technology and as time passes, schools often have programs to rent out laptops or computers for students to utilize at home, which helps lessen the divide. Alternatively, as an educator, you could also give an alternate assignment to students without technology access at home, offering a paper assignment or something similar. 

    Two software tools that I really want to use in my future classroom are Canva and Google Classroom. When I was in high school, I loved using Canva to design different things for a variety of projects and creative elements for a variety of classes, and the Powerpoint tools on Canva are genuinely underrated. I also very much enjoy using Google Classroom or Canvas for turning in assignments. Google Classroom is incredibly efficient and streamlined, and the fact that students can directly upload documents from their accounts helps with maintaining that things actually get turned in efficiently.