My first blog

I believe teachers are influenced by what is going to be the best learning mechanism for the student, while trying to be as relevant as possible to whatever emerging technology is available currently. Students are susceptible to adapting to emerging technology, simply because they've grown up with the rate of change. Used to the state of constant flux, the students are typically influenced by whatever is available to help them learn in the most optimal way. Today's students having access to laptops, tablets, and smartphones there are constantly new ways to integrate technology into your everyday learning habits.

Reflecting upon the ISTE standards, one that I think is important is being a responsible digital citizen. Anonymity and mystique are large parts of what draw people to the internet, since you can be as anonymous as you choose and search for nearly anything. There's a depersonalization brought about by the sheer amount of power and access when you're online, and it's much easier to be mean, or say something nasty to someone from behind a screen. I would hope that when most people are online, they would give people as much credit as they would in person.
I don't really see any I would consider outside my current skill set, but I think I have trouble with number four, the "Innovative Designer." It can be scary to share something you've created with anyone and everyone on the internet, and depending on how anonymous you've made yourself, it may make you feel a little vulnerable. But hey, what's the problem with being vulnerable?

I completely agree and accept the term, "digital native." I think being a digital native implies that you have been around since the birth of the internet, but the stereotype would assume the person is younger, and affluent with technology because they've grown up with it. I have noticed that the generations of people born before the "digital era" can be very good with adapting to the technological world, or they can be willingly ignorant. I think most humans are capable of learning and adapting to far more than they think. Something strange is happening at this point in human history, since there has never been this much access to information at this rate of speed, and in comparison to how quickly a computer processes data, the human computing power is pale as a ghost. So my question is: how is the integration between human development and technological progression going to mesh? And are the students of the next generations going to be even more adept than the students today? I wonder if the integration of technological progression into human development, much further down the line, is going to change our biology.

Well, that's all I guess. Hopefully you folks have a good day.

- Max Cherry