Blog 5

 My experiences using Twitter have been rather pleasant. As compared to using Twitter for personal use and all that nonsense, using it for this class has been much more civil and friendly. The app has a lot of VERY opinionated people and they will let you know that, but when it is focused solely on objective based statistics and education there is less bias and online rage from people. This is not to say it is obsolete of this behavior as it has sadly creeped in under every known Twitter account, including our Department of Education.

The digital divide greatly affects student success in schools, while it was much less prominent when I was in grade school I believe it has a greater emphasis now. One of the best examples of this is COVID, if you were a student in a low-income area where the school district could not supply students with desktops and computers for zoom, chances are you are left behind compared to students who had access to this. Causes of the digital divide are largely socio-economic, but also include factors such as school zoning. As a teacher, I may experience a student who can not submit an essay online due to them not having readily available access to a computer, this is something that has to be taken into consideration.

I really do enjoy Canvas, and that is not just because it is the standard for FSU. I think the application runs very well for the amount of traffic it experiences on a daily basis, and it is incredibly easy to navigate. I have never seen the teacher view but I assume that it must not be too hard given how easy the layout is for students. As for myself though, I only ever experienced it in college, my schools were all paper and pencil so Canvas was my first introduction to an application that runs an entire classroom.

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