Technology can be amazing. I have come to lean on technology on the daily. Amazon is a friend, and I love online shopping. However, I still have my hesitations. I am a millennial who has deleted both her Facebook and Instagram accounts. It has been a weird adjustment and people cannot believe it. I love not being able to be reached all the time. However, I love listening to music almost 24/7, I cannot navigate without google maps, would not have made it through my undergrad without google docs or Google itself.
My classes had class simulation done on Facebook which I hated being forced to use social media for a class, but it makes communication so easy. Job shifts for work and work updates for one of my jobs were posted on Facebook. I have seen technology work wonders and today kids do not know a time when it wasn't around. We as teachers need to kids at a place where they are comfortable at and technology can ease our workload as teachers as well.
The one thing that concerns me is cheating. While I was in high school I know kids sent each other pictures of the quizzes and quiz answers and the teacher never found out. It will be a balancing act to use technology for good in a classroom, but also to prevent misuse of technology.
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