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Technology in classrooms is a tool used almost all around the U.S and is vastly growing and improving daily. Teachers are influenced to use technology in the classrooms for multiple reasons. Communication in the classroom and throughout the schools administration is important for a teachers' career. Keeping up with the latest technology makes it easier for a teacher to communicate efficiently to his or her students. There are certain standards teachers are supposed to follow in the digital world and teaching technology is apart of most curriculum and it makes it better when the teacher is following along with the advances. Teaching students with technology allows students to be challenged intellectually and creates an effective way to create student growth in multiple areas. Using smart boards or power-point presentations to teach students keeps them the digital natives they are. Because technology is advancing everyday, it is important for students to learn about these advances because when they are grown up and entering the real world they will be expected to use these technologies in their every day careers.  

The ISTE standards for students are a list of skills expected for a student to learn and understand with technology. I reflect the most on the "Digital Citizen" standard because it explains that students are familiar with the digital world in all the ways that are protected and ethical. When using certain online websites, I ensure that the photos, comments, or language I use is appropriate because I understand that what goes onto the internet never leaves. I make sure to maintain my personal data in a way that is safe and only I can access my own information. I was always taught to never go on risky websites and to frequently erase my computers history in case of any not seen viruses. The skill that isn't in my understanding is the "Computational Thinker." It uses algorithmic thinking to solve abstract models and data analysis. Students formulate different technological methods and I haven't fully learned how to use these skills but I'm interested to study the steps. 

To be a digital native you would have to be born during the time of digital technology and is fully aware of computers and its abilities. I agree with this term for today's youth because as time goes on, technology advances. When I was young half of the technology was not fully advance, therefore I learned as it progressed. Today's youth is first introduced to its latest technology which is as advanced as it gets. I've seen differences between the way teachers (digital immigrants) and students use technology. I believe that since professors were grown up almost never using technology, they have not learned the full content of it. When us students grew up, technology was getting started and that is what we were introduced to and obsessed over. I don't think it impacted my learning experience because the teachers knew what I knew to teach me the material. I think that as technology advances I will be caught up and count on using it with my future students to keep them the digital natives they will be.