Prompt #4

To apply the current role of technology into my classroom, I am going to make a Facebook page for the students, their parents and myself. I first thought of this idea because my cousin has one for her class and talks about it often and says how great it is. After learning all the information that ETE 100 has taught me so far, I have came up with many ideas for how I am going to manage a Facebook page. I think a Facebook page for my students and I to communicate through would definitely achieve the 6 standards. Creativity and innovation would be shown through different projects and assignments that I could have the students post. Communication and collaboration would be reached through a Facebook page and be beneficial for both the students and their parents because they could easily communicate with me and work together with their students. Other classmates can post any type of research help they have found dealing with any given assignment, that would meet the research and information fluency standard. Critical thinking, problem solving and decision making would be seen through this page because classmates could share their ideas and work together to make the right decisions and solve the problems they might have. The last two standards, digital citizenship and technology operations would be met just by having the Facebook page in general. Every student and their parent would have the opportunity to be a part of this social networking site and learn how to understand how it all works, while learning at the same time.

Reflection
I have been thinking about having a classroom Facebook page for quite some time now. I am positive I want to have that, if the children are too young for Facebook, at least I could have one with the parents if they wanted to. I think that would be a great way to stay in touch and answer any questions that needed to be asked. I think it is important to have some type of technological way of communicating with your classroom, especially in this digital world we're living in today.