Blog Post 2

Microsoft Word has been around for a long time. I strongly remember when we started learning how to use it in middle school. During my first computer science lesson, we would learn how to use the document, play with the different fonts, locate the various uses for creating a title, or underlining words. It has always been easy for me to learn the basics of computers. I also had our computer at home, which I had already been using prior to that time. As I got older and changed schools, instead of going to the computer room to use the stationary computers in high school, we now would have our portable laptops or, to be exact, chrome laptops. With everything being Chrome on them, I learned how to use Google Drive instead. Google Drive is what I still prefer to use to this day. Everything is easier to access online and saves directly, and I do not have to click save every time I exit the document, such as I had to do with my MS. I had a huge number of documents that I would need to remember to save and have mysteriously lost. Which led to my preferred software being Google Docs. 

The ISTE Standards is a road map to help students become empowered and learn. From viewing it, the most meaningful standard to me, is to be a leader. As a teacher, you have that set in your role. To lead the classroom of students in learning new things. By being supportive and empowering them to reach their goals within and outside the classroom. I feel that all these standards are essential to have in creating the best possible classroom for students as a teacher. Maybe not have 100 % of each section, but be able to incorporate them all in one form of teaching. To drive students into their learning. 

Digital Narratives is a term used to refer to younger people and their connection with our technology. Mark Prensky claims to have said that digital natives are the native speakers of the internet. They are the people born into a time when digital technology was already around. These natives are the ones who the so-called digital immigrants bring up. Digital immigrants were the ones born before digital technology but adapted to it while growing up as it came around. These two individuals have been affected by digital media differently. I feel like people in my generation mostly use digital media with ease, but many of my generation do not as well. This is the same when looking at the former generation's use of media, they have picked up the skill even better than some in my generation. When it comes to digital media usage. I also believe the generation after us is mostly affected, the so-called iPad kids, who have been having the screen set in front of them before they even took their first steps. These kids' attention spans are short, and they lack creativity. Compared to my generation and the ones before. They do not have the form of creative play we built up at a young age, from playing with toys and creating storylines outside on an open field with friends. They are plastered on the screen, just taking in and being entertained by the games or TV shows on their screens instead. Differences such as these make the generations different in how they approach daily life habits.