Reflecting on Blog Post 1

In blog post one we were asked to talk about the reasons for choosing our final project topic. In my response to this question I replied talking about how this topic seemed like it would be fairly easy to find information on. I had also talked about the information that I find being useful in the future and in hopes that it will help me as a future teacher. For the part that I talked about of my prior knowledge of technology I said how difficult it is for teachers to ensure that all of their students have the same access because of multiple reasons. From the results of what I had said from my first blog post to now as of being done with my final project I have to say that my position has not changed. I still agree with what I had said. It was fairly easy to find good and useful information on this topic. The information that I did find as well as solutions to these problems that were addressed through my final project will definitely help me as a future teacher. I also agree with what I had said of it being difficult for teachers to ensure all their students have the same access because of the information I found and information that was talked about, the majority of it backs up that statement completely.

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My newly acquired knowledge will help me with my future endeavors as a teacher because, like I said in the previous paragraph, the solutions I found to the problems that came up will help me as a future teacher when I have similar problems come up. This final project topic will also help me in the future because it gave me a better understanding of what accessibility is and showed me more in depth how not everyone's access is equal. As a future teacher if I have a student/s in my classroom that are not getting the amount of access to computers or internet that they should I now will know of some ideas and ways to help them with that. This final project topic also taught me more about how the school system works and ways that schools receive their funding. Going off of that it also taught me some good ideas of different ways that schools could get funding as well as technology. Although there are always pros and cons to each idea, the cons were mainly discussed. Overall this project taught me a lot more about accessibility than I had already knew. It also furthered my knowledge of solutions to these types of problems.