Blog Post #1

   In this class I hope to learn how educators use technology to make educating students more accessible and how it can enhance the learning experience. While I do not think technology has been implemented appropriately from my experience, outside of Canvas. I do think there is room for it to develop a huger role in the classroom and hopefully become more accessible to those of a lower socioeconomic status. I'm too sure on the idea of becoming a teacher, but it can never hurt to learn.

In my middle school during like 7th grade, my school got access to Surface Pro tablets for academic use. Of course, that was the last thing anyone really did with them and most people I knew were running Halo or emulating old Nintendo games on those suckers day one to play during class. It was a distraction, but could sometimes be a useful tool to reduce waste in classrooms. Teachers could send assignments to students without having print a billion copies, some classwork could be submitted through the tablets, and many other things. I can't exactly remember personally using my tablet too much though.

I could say I love learning about literature, which I do. That answer would be untruthful, but mostly true. A good bit of my entire life has been learning about fighting games. I would watch Youtube videos, rewatch pro tournaments for them, and ask friend for help with executing other things. While I'm terribly mid at most of the games I play due to lack of practice, I feel confident to say I can have a high level of understanding about what happens in most games. Obviously, general knowledge is not really enough to carry yourself to fully understand a game without bashing your head against a wall for 3000+ hours.