So far my experience with twitter for thus class has been fairly good. I haven't really interacted with anyone in particular more so just using the class hashtag (hoping that I don't forget it.). I have found it useful to get information about technology uses that the university uses or is trying to implement throughout the university. In the future I think twitter could be useful in the teacher side of things to relay information but I don't see myself using it in an elementary classroom setting.
Digital divide is something that I think is affecting kids more today then when I was in school simply because of the variety of technology. I think that it can be hard to make sure all the kids have the same knowledge and skills because kids may have all different types of technology access. It can also be hard for students who's parents strictly limit their screen time or the websites they can be on. I feel like if teachers require technology uses then teachers need to provide the materials needed to complete the task. Along with teacher all students hot to use the technology.
Personally I want to teach in an elementary school so for my classroom I would anticipate only using technology in the classroom for centers or small group activities. I think that using online resources at this age can be hard for them so to have a program like Alexia or Type to Learn would be the most effective in the classroom. I would expect that in primary education that i would be the one who uses most of the software when creating activities for the class and give the kids more pen and paper type of activities. However the software that I would expect to use the least is administration software since I am "old fashion" I like to use excel for grades and just good old pen and paper.
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