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  Digital technology literacy skills will need to continue to develop to keep up with our students on a regular basis. Boyd urges and advises us to continue to learn about Digital technology as consumers and as teachers so that we can properly teach our students without making assumptions about their abilities, strengths, or weaknesses. Keeping a good balance in our classrooms will be always challenging because Youth want to always be with smartphones, and laptops, or have access to use technology without being timed or having any limitations. We must always be interested in and provide access to digital technology to those who do not have it within their reach and advocate for them to have the right to free public education including the technological tools for their learning. Chapter 7 of Boyd helps us to reflect and see the reality of things that have to do with technology and social media. We must be aware that young people have more power, performance, and capacity than we cou...

  The explanation and the point of view that Mr. Ken Robinson has regarding the educational system in modern times: "How to escape the valley of death of education" is very interesting. Mr. Robinson, through his talk, helps us open our eyes to the reality of why the educational system has its failures despite the constant adjustments and updates to improve the quality of the curricula to improve teaching and learning. What strikes me a lot about this talk is that he is very open, convincing, and objective when talking about "Common Core" educational policies with his standards. I was surprised that he spoke openly and was direct in criticizing education in the United States, which is far from reality to encouraging academic unification. Mr. Ken Robinson emphasized his views and arguments that clearly go against the American education system. His main criticism is quite accurate since, as he mentioned, the statute of "No Child Left Behind" is ironic. Becaus...

 My name is Linda, I will soon graduate in December 2023 as a World Language Spanish teacher. My summer 2023 is going very well, although a bit busy taking summer classes and working full-time. I think these last two years have been a bit overwhelming because I've been so busy with classes and work. But I am excited that I will be traveling to Cancun Mexico for two weeks in August with my family.