# 4 The Digital Divide...dun dun dun

Paragraph 1: My early experience with twitter within the course has honestly been slow but I have been able to utilize it more and more as we go on. I do love the ability it has to connect my peers and I along with seeing how teachers that I follow interact with one another. I have been primarily interacting with the EME page and going off of that and with my peers. It has been very helpful with the reminder to post and retweet each week and keeping me up to date with my assignments. In the future I think twitter will be a great tool to use when it comes to new ideas in the classroom and with education in the nation.
Paragraph 2: When it comes to the digital divide depending on which side you are on it can really affect how students advance in technology and learning In the podcast where two situations of students were compared, one with a dad in IT with plenty of technology access and one child in another family with no technology access at home. A student without a computer at home will most likely be at a disadvantage and a different level of knowledge when it comes to technology as a whole therefor less likely to go into a field of technology. Along with this when it comes to using any kind of Microsoft software from Word to PowerPoint the child with limited technology experience will be less likely to be able to navigate these tools that will prepare them in high school and into college. Also other software’s of application and active learning, tutorials, educational games and stimulations all of these help better the child in different ways to help them comprehend the material and present it too them in a different way. These have become essential to the new way we use technology in learning and would be very difficult without them.
Paragraph 3: Specifically there are five points when it comes to evaluating a website and those are...

A: Author "credentials, can you contact the author?"
B: Bias "is the resource neutral or biased toward the topic?"
C: Content " Is it appropriate for student-aged viewers, accurate with spelling and grammar?"
D: Design 'is it visibly pleasing/Are the images clear'
T: Technical elements 'is it easy to navigate, quick to load/ are all parts functioning?'

When I was younger and we first started using technology in the classroom my teacher told us what one of the most important points to keep in mind when doing research and that it to always look at the URL. Whether it is .com, .edu, .org or .gov, each one of them tells you something specific about the website and its credibility and it is very important.