Thank you Monday morning guest!

It is always hard to get back into university life after having a long break, in this case our three week practicum, then you add to it being 9am on a cold Monday and well it wasn't looking good.  Then our guest lecturer began to speak and the morning got a little brighter!  I am not writing this post to suck up (grin) but merely to highlight the fact that if you have an interested teacher standing out front who is engaging you in conversation then you are going to learn.


In class on Monday, we looked at the concept of the digital divide - what is a digital divide? The class brainstormed and came up with the following ideas just to name a few...

• have versus have not 
• understand versus no idea
• face 2 face versus digital
• innovators versus resistors 
• boy versus girl

It was interesting to think about my practicum school in light of these issues but also think about my children's school.  Where do they fit in this comparison and where do I fit in - am I a resistor?  I hope not, I hope that my practicum experience will spur me on to learn more, not only more tools but more ways to utilise them and to enhance the learning experience of my future students.
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