Blog Post #9

 “The Flipped Classroom” is basically the opposite of the typical common structural approach. Instead of teachers teaching their lessons in classrooms and giving out interactive activities/assignments. Some educators take the pre-work or for example a chapter that they assign the students to read and answer questions for before they come into class. This way the student will be prepared to learn the material that has been given to them before the actual lecture.

The "Digital Divide" is the gap between demographics and certain areas that have easy access to technology(cell phones, computers, tablets, etc.) versus those regions that do not including the more rural or urban area. This has an immediate impact on student success in school because students are now limited in their education with a gap on access to technology or not. Some of the causes of the digital divide include lack of access, information, knowledge, and skills. Experiencing this in the classroom would give an impact on the way I would have to teach lessons but I personally would not let that affect the way I teach my children. Instead, I will use resources from books, writing, stories, and try to work on the student as an individual versus a class as a whole.

I enjoyed the Powerpoint project, I find it interesting on creating my own lesson plan draft and recording my own presentation to criticize how exactly I speak and go on how I read things off the slides. This taught me how to screen record my presentation on a MacBook, which I also found it is harder and more steps on a Mac than completing it on Microsoft Office on a PC. I genuinely enjoyed this assignment and the only issue I had was uploading to canvas and simulating a screen record while also recording my audio on a Macbook.

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