Within the last few years’ technology devices have nearly flooded schools with new software and handheld devices. Walking into an upper-middle class suburban school district, you will find students working on Chromebooks, iPads, working on projects on GoogleClassroom, SMARTboards in every classroom and more. Meanwhile, in the same state just a 20-minute drive away you can walk into an inner-city school and would be lucky to even see at least two computers in the back of the classroom. Our worlds future is slowly revolving around technology more and more, but is it meeting the needs for our diverse learners? We need to prepare students for the 21 st century and incorporate technology in the everyday classroom. As current and future teachers, we have so many options ahead of us to include technology to ensure a bright future for our students. It is not just bringing the latest and great...
There's a new man in town. Actually there's a new man, and a new woman, a few new dogs, mermaids and mermans, unicorns, a whole species of monkeys, and Santas of every ethnicity ALL in this town. This town is not a place too far from me and you, and we probably visit this place fifty percent of the time we unlock our smartphones. Well, if you haven't already guessed it, this town is known as the emoji keyboard. As we know, the term "text" embodies so much more than just the written word. It encompasses symbols, lines, speech, sounds, images, videos, gifs, and of course, emoticons. It's no surprise that emojis are a form of text, especially since it seems that these icons alone can practically replace communication with the written word all together. An experiment was done by Caroline Moss, technology reporter for Business Insider , where she communicated via iMessage by using ONLY emoticons for five days. That means that every time someone sent her a te...