Blog Post 2
MS Word Experience
Before coming to FSU, I had a limited amount of experience with Microsoft Word. I used it for any writing assignments in elementary and middle school that required me to type them. However, my high school primarily required us to use Google Workspace’s programs, including Google Docs. As a result, I feel much more comfortable using Google Docs in my day-to-day student life and have used it throughout my four years at FSU. In my opinion, Google Docs has a much more streamlined and simplistic interface compared to Microsoft Word’s more complicated interface. I also like that Google Docs can be shared between Google accounts, which makes completing group projects and assignments easier because everyone can work on the same document simultaneously.
ISTE Standards for Educators
The ISTE Standards for Educators provide a helpful guideline for educators to rely on as they navigate technology and its place in the educational setting. While I believe all of the standards for educators are important in their own ways, I think the most meaningful standard to me is the standard of educators as Collaborators (2.3). Technology is a rapidly changing field and new advances are made every day. Therefore, I like that ISTE has emphasized the importance of teachers learning technology alongside their students, as well as connecting their students with the world around them via technology. Technology provides educators with the opportunity to connect their students with individuals, communities, and places that would not typically have access to. This helps develop more community/global engagement and networking skills in students, which are incredibly helpful for preparing students to enter the professional and social world.
Digital Natives
I think that the term “digital native” and the qualifications that come with it are generally accurate to the people they apply to. To be a digital native means to have grown up with technology and to have a somewhat heightened sense of comfortability with engaging in technology than members of older generations do. I have noticed that some of my older professors and instructors engage with technology in a slower and more intentional manner than digital natives do. They seem to think out what exactly it is they want to accomplish with technology, as opposed to digital natives who act more instinctually with technology. I think this gap will only continue to develop between older and younger generations. I would not be surprised if I were to feel completely out of my comfort zone with certain technologies that my future students will be experts in dealing with.
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