Journal One

• Teachers and students are influenced to use technology in the classroom based on the changing influence of technology worldwide. Everyday, new innovations are created for the classroom and teachers and students are often the first to experience them because technology in today's society greatly helps to further education. With access to new technologies, students learn to become more technologically fluent. This will not only help students in class, but out of class in the real world as well.
• The ISTE standards were created to provide technological guidance and insight to five different demographics-- students, teachers, educational leaders, technology coaches, and computer science educators. The guidelines encourage success in each given group through pushing to gain knowledge in "communication, collaboration, and knowledge construction." One of the ISTE standards that is particularly meaningful to me is standard number 1 under the ISTE Standards for Educators. This standard views educators as "Learners" and states, "Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning." If educators aren't continually learning, their is no way that their teaching may improve to better learn and understand the content to pass onto students. One ISTE standard that currently seems outside my current skill set is ISTE Standards for : Educators #7: Analyst where educators "understand and use data to drive their instruction and support students in achieving their learning goals." This is simply because I haven't taught in a classroom yet and do not know how to adapt lessons personally or analyze certain data that is collected in education.
• A digital native is someone who was born in the current digital era and was born and grew up into an age where children had a relative understanding of technology. I personally agree on that title because even though technology did not get really big in my schooling until about middle school, I still was able to use electronics in class and at home for classwork really early and easily understood how to utilize said tools. My teachers (who are mostly digital immigrants) certainly had less of a grasp on how to use technology than the students. One of the easiest examples is seen with teachers struggling to switch channels when using the projector and then proceeding to need the help of several children to get them to figure it out. I don't anticipate much difference in how my future students will learn, simply because I grew up in this new technology sort of industrial revolution where computers, tablets, etc. were part of school culture and I don't see that changing in anyway, besides seeing new versions of the aforementioned technologies come out. It will be interesting to explore how much change is brought in the coming years.

• with others an exploring proven and promising practices that
  leverage technology to improve student learning.

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