Looking through the Lens of a Teacher
We live in an interesting time right now. In my fourth-grade placement classroom, a nine-year-old asked me what kind of phone I had, to which he responded he had the latest one. We live in a time where seven-year-olds are growing up on the internet. Where babies are attracted to phone screens, and toddlers can work the screens without error. The world is connected completely. The people are connected completely. Social media is a lens into everyone's lives; hear people's thoughts, see screenshots into their life, communicate with those around the world in seconds. It is both the scariest thing we do each day and the greatest. Because of social media, because of technology, I am able to communicate with educators in my class and around the world. In a way, the lens into their lives gives me a new reality that I would not have otherwise. Just the other day I said to a friend that this professional twitter that I had created was both the best and worst thing for my teaching ...