MDonofrio: EME 2040

In school, I've been using Microsoft Word since I learned how to type. In grade school, my computer teachers would have us open up a word document on our computers, place (unused) large mens' boxers around the keyboard (so we could not see the keys), and stick our hands in and type. This was my introduction to Microsoft Word. Overtime, we graduated from arbitrary sentences to actual papers and lost the boxers (thankfully). From then on, I used Microsoft Word until 8th grade when I got a MacBook and switched to Google docs. Most of my teachers have used Microsoft Word for typing up worksheets and tests. They have also used other Microsoft programs in class like Powerpoint and Excel.  In grade school, when we started writing research-based papers, our teachers taught us about citing work and giving credit to other sources. Since then, I have understood the necessity of giving credit where it is due. As a teacher I will stress the importance of citing sources in their works. ...

What influences teachers and students to use technology in the classroom? ISTE stands for International Society for Technology Education, who name and describe "the standards for the use of technology in teaching and learning" on their website, ISTE.org.  The standards are split up into different categories: Students, Educators, Education Leaders, Computational Thinking, Coaches, and Computer Science Educators. The student standards are listed as Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, Global Collaborator.  An ISTE student standard that is meaningful to me is the "creative communicator." The creative communicator is defined as "students [who] communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals." I find this standard important in education because it e...

My name is Madeline. I was born in Plantation, Florida, and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. I moved back to Florida for college mostly because of the financial benefit and partly because of the state's tendency for warmer weather. I am an English Education major and I hope to also get a Spanish minor. After graduation, I hope to move out of the country to begin my career as a teacher of English as a foreign language. In school, I have used the basics in regards to technology. I have always had classes with smart boards in the room and classes with computers. In middle school, we were forced to take a computer/typing class that taught us how how properly type on a computer keyboard and how to search up information online. Since eighth grade, I have been using Google Drive for almost every paper/powerpoint/project and I have never felt the need to switch to any other platform for my work. In this class, I hope to learn about how technology benefits both the teachers and the ...