EME2040 Class Blog

          So I'm going to keep it absolutely 100 with you - I despise using twitter. This is mainly because of my personal twitter, but twitter as a platform annoys me. Even within the sphere of education, it's mainly a cesspool of people all believing that they're right and you're wrong. I remember my professor last semester had a common habit of showing us terrible twitter takes before class - this is all of twitter. Every teacher thinks they're an angel who runs the best classroom that has absolutely zero issues and if you don't do what they say to do then you're a terrible teacher who's ruining lives... yeah, I don't like twitter.          I think digital divide is a difficult thing to solve in classrooms - particularly because schools don't receive a lot of funding for extra things like computers. Ideally, with America heading towards a more STEM-focused education, the government will be more likely to aid in providing electronics f...

       I'll be honest - I was surprised just how much 8th graders are expected to know, technology wise.  Recollecting, I also don't believe I've ever had a teacher teach me how to do anything tech related, we were just expected to know how to do it or get our parents to help us. In terms of the precise standards, I feel like it's fairly accurate, though I will say I'm not sure how well 8th graders would be able to properly "mind-map", regardless of their understanding of the tech behind that. I do believe I could properly teach any of these tech concepts; the concepts are fairly straightforward.      One of the standards that I found that I saw implemented in my own high school was the music standard, "Record your way to better sight reading." To be frank - my orchestra was terrible at sight reading, so, since it's an important skill for a musician to have, and because it was on our MPAs, we often practiced it. Our director would record us w...