In my opinion, I believe that ubiquitous access should impact teaching and learning. Without immediate access to the internet, we are limiting our ability to learn new things and broaden the way we both teach and learn. Giving the students the ability to use the internet in class and have ubiquitous access can help them to understand certain things better and have more fun with what they are doing. Completing activities the same way every school day and doing homework, all the same, would get boring. As would listening to a teacher lecture all day long. With access to the internet and all the great things that it encompasses, students have the ability to learn, complete and think a completely different way than they did before. There are a ton of platforms that are useful in school. For example, when I was in middle school I did not have a teacher teach me math. I learned and completed all of my math homework and tests on an app called Aleks. It was a whole new way of learning and...
The four C's for 21st-century skills are Creativity, Collaboration, Critical thinking, and Communication. Integrating technology into all of these skills will help with making these a lot easier to accomplish. The student as an innovative designer basically involves using technology to solve problems, which goes right along with thinking critically. If for example, a student has a particular idea but can't showcase it on their own, they can use the help of technology to explain it. Perhaps they are doing a science project and need to demonstrate how they would accomplish what they want to do, the student can use a designing website to draw out and animate the experiment to explain how it will be completed. Using technology such as google docs to collaborate helps to give students the freedom to complete their project whenever without necessarily being there with the person they are collaborating with. With Google docs, you have the option of working o...