Chapter 3

There can be many benefits about the way we use technology. As mentioned in chapter 3 there are many ways of developing digital literacy. One thing that I found was The Seven Elements of Digital Literacies and it shows a web explaining about the seven elements of digital literacy. I believe that by teaching digital literacy students are gaining the knowledge of finding the correct information and resources they need on the internet. Students need to be able to identify something on the internet that is actually real and know that they are not being hacked or if it is false information.

Next thing about digital literacy is media. Media is everywhere and it will be great to teach our students about the media literacy. Young children are also using media and spend a lot time on it. As teachers we want the best for our students. I believe that teaching media will be entertaining for the students and the students will be more encourage to want to learn other than just books and paper. We don't always want to bored our students with the same lecture and having them open those books and having them write down notes because I know when I was in high school we get tired of writing a lot so therefore media would be great and they will be able to understand truth of the information that is given. 

The third thing that caught my attention in this assignment was communicating and collaborating. I think that including technology in our classroom our students will be more motivated to learn together in a group. The students will be able to collaborate more with technology and they will be able to come up with great ideas. Letting our students use technology will help our students to be more engage and more involve. I found a video about Naturally smart where it helps students to be more collaborating and being to work together and learn together a different times and places. 

In conclusion media is everywhere, television, social media, internet etc. Being able to teach our students about media literacy will help the students later on when they have to research a specific topic and need to find some kind of information. They will be able to find the bias and will be able to tell the lies. We want to prepare our students for the future when they become more independent and this is a way by being able to teach them about media literacy. Media has the benefits of having them to be able to have skills like critical thinking, being able to understand a media message and being able to identify the scenes of a story. 

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Chapter 1

Technology has advanced over the past years. Technology is in our everyday daily lives whether we notice it or not. Young children know so much about technology. One thing that caught my attention was about teaching our 21st-century learners with technology. Becoming a teacher and using technology can help me build a relationship with students because that is what students love to use more often, whether it is an iPod to listen to music while doing work or using the internet to do assignments in the classroom instead of writing with a pencil. At Technology Integration Ideas that work have some great ideas on how to use technology in a classroom with the students' assignments or projects. I think it is a wonderful idea to use technology more often for the students' projects and I think it will help on saving trees (paper).

Another thing that I learned about was about BrainPOP. Brainpop is a website that has science, math, social studies, English, arts & music, health and engineering tech. I think using this website is a creative way to use a new curriculum and it can be fun and exciting for students to learn about a subject. I think using BrainPOP can be one way we can introduce our children to technology. We can introduce our students to technology by having them having fun while they are learning at the same time. Here is a short video that gives you some information about BrainPop and the benefits of it.

Lastly, introducing technology to our 21st-century students is a way to help them get ready and be successful and having a better understanding of technology. As shown in figure 1.2 it shows the skills that students can gain by using technology. Letting our students use technology can be a way to connect with them. One thing about teaching and using technology in our classrooms can benefit by giving the children a motivation on doing their assignments more often. One way we can benefit from technology is having more resources online. We can have a laptop or iPads on each student's desk and instead of using a book they can just have the book online. There are so many ways a teacher can use technology and have a great learning experience with it and their students.

In conclusion, teaching 21st century learns has become where technology is in our daily lives. Instead of trying to make our students bored with just pencils and paper we should use technology often. Also, since we can not beat them we might as well join them with the technology. Students at a very young age begin to use it more often and probably a 5-year-old can use an iPad better than a teacher. So, I say instead of trying to take technology away from them we should introduce them into it and use technology in our classrooms and use it in a fun and exciting way and maybe like that students will be more motivated to learn new materials.