NetDay Results

When taking a look at the answers of school children or “digital natives” I see much of the same answers that I had on the survey. I don’t consider myself an expert by any means, but I have come to rely on technology to make my work and my life that much easier. What really surprised me though was the amount of teachers that didn’t really use much technology and I believe this could contribute to some of the generational gap between students and teachers. Especially in Maine where we have the Laptop program, teachers need to at least have some knowledge about technology. I may not be a digital native, but if not I immigrated at a very early age. I believe this will have a lot of influence on my teaching style because it will make me closer to the students and I won’t seem like as much of an outsider to them, which is crucial in a classroom environment. I will also try to use technology as much as possible in my teaching style, because I tend to rely on it just as much as my students do. It was fairly surprising to see that most of my answers were similar to the answers of the school children. I assumed that they would have different views on how to use technology in schools because I am older that them and haven’t had the same technological advances as they just grew up with. It makes me feel a little better that I do have something in common with my students and that is the ways we like to use technology.