Blog 8

Chapter 12 refers to open content is the biggest advancement and holds the biggest promise. I think this because it uses social media to help integrate things. This could be utilized by kids because now social media is very predominant in young people now a day and using technology and social media as a form of learning would really reach students and allow them to grow in ways familiar to them.

Digital divide is the gap between demographics and regions and have access to technology that do or don't have limited access. I am on the side of the divide that doesn't have limited access to technology. I think it will affect my classroom because my class will be split about what side of the divide they're on and it will be challenging to help students on both sides and split time evenly. 

I learned a lot of new skills by working on my Powerpoint presentation. Before this class I had only done the very basic powerpoint skills; adding slides and typing on them. What I liked was getting to learn totally new things that are so helpful to me and my future career. I will use it in my future career to teach my class certain lessons and also do powerpoints with substitutes so my class can hear my voice while listening to the presentation even though I am absent and the class is listening to a substitute.