Wilmer's Blog (2040)

Going Off the standards presented in the common core initiative site, I'd be willing to wager my comfortability levels out around the grade 5 level; where most of the students are introduced to intro level software management. Essentially the surface level fair we've covered as a class from basic MS suite maintenance, to cloud and social media usage. I'm not currently fit to instruct at a higher  level than what is my frustratingly low exposures to such technologies. Perhaps it's my lack of need for such suites? In any case If one were to throw me into a fifth grade class room setting and asked my to teach the basic functionalities I'd be more than happy to. I'd even throw in Copyright strike prevention and public domain usage. I was playing around with the grade 5 resource toolkit and found some neat studying materials involving social studies courses presented cleanly and succinctly for young students to understand.  tiny course nodes located near the bottom...

My experience with word and Microsoft programs are generally constrained to the classroom environment. Most of not all of my class essays/projects/journals are required to be written or produced on a windows platform. On my own time I write on "pages," the apple equivalent of word and an operating system I'm more comfortable with. Teachers have used MS Word all throughout my school life. I've seen teachers utilize the entire MS suite to present word assignments, power point presentations, and MS art live examples.  Copyright right material use in the classroom has been pretty lax, if  remember correctly. Teachers throughout my time in 12-k would put together presentations and power point slides and utilize pictures and videos retrieved from the internet--not much importance was given to the source of many of the copyright materials. English classes later on in high school have emphasized the importance of citing work materials. It wasn't until I entered colleg...

--For one thing, the burgeoning, ever mercurial state of technology in tandem with our dependence on the mastery of such technologies make them essential facets of everyday existence . One cannot operate in turn of the century America, certainly not in large swaths of the job market, without some understanding of basic computer technologies (i.e-word, email, social media) It goes without saying that students of all ages, too, would benefit in the long run having been trained in all the pertinent fields of communication, and tool implementation.  -- The ISTE standard must meaningful to me is the student standard which strives to educate on importance of not just the basic handling of technologies but also the importance of KNOWING ones place in the wide web. To abide by the ethical, moral, and legal standards required to flourish as digital citizens--managing my digital identity and to navigate copyright protection laws. I find all these to be vastly important, thus indispensable ...