Amanda Torres

            I have learned so much from this class that I will definitely be using in other classes as a student and in my own that one day I will be facilitating. Although I have learned so much there is always so much more to add to your knowledge. I would love to learn a lot more about excel because I know very basic functions and I know there is so much deeper content that I can get into that could be so useful. I think it could be greatly useful in keeping grades and other info that is important for me in my future class as an educator.

As a future educator myself I plan on encouraging Technology Professional Development with content focus. With this way of teaching it helps educators themselves learn along with students. They will be most hands on with technology enabling an extensive amount of learning to happen. Teachers can implement things like Virtual Reality into their lesson plans to help students engage even more. I loved learning about ways to incorporate more fun engaging ways to portray lectures, or games to students. I feel with this new knowledge my student will have more fun engaging with the class therefore keeping them the most interested and learning.

A flipped classroom is a new concept and approach to teaching and learning. In a flipped classroom instead of the classic instruction in class time and homework to practice while at home a teacher can decide to flip their classroom to where the students access instruction and lessons at home and practice their work while in the classroom with the teacher. When using this technique and style of instruction the student has more useful time and access to their teachers with videos first while at home then again in the classroom giving more options with more purpose learning. I believe this can help students more especially since the number of students going home and returning with no homework done is increasing. The digital divide has to do with the lack of access people have to technology who may not be as privileged as others and may not have as much access to technology as others. Without access to technology there may be students who get put behind being unable t...