When I watched the video it made sense that technology generations were split in 20’s. As I read on to the articles and thought about my students and my experience with technology, it stopped making sense to split the groups in 20’s. I say this because I been teaching for 4/ 5 years, I also have cousins that are in their young teen years and even among them I see a technology gaps. Today’s teens grew up with desktops and seeing their parents text and on the phone--all day. Preteens grew up seeing their parents in their smartphone--mini computer and their parents gave them a table to play with, instead of a Fisher Price Game. My main point is that with the speed of technology we will need to change the way we split technology groups. It will help us understand them better. As a teacher I can not say that my 5th graders when I started knew as much on how to use an iPad as my 5th graders today. Again, I only been teaching for a little over 4 years.
Another topic I looked for in the articles and I could not find, was the effect of social economic status in students tech life. Some parents can get their kids up to three devices, other can not even get a house tech device. I always knew that but it hit me hard this year when I tried to flip my class by assigning mini-videos to watch at home for class the next day.. Despite me teaching in a wealthy area there are still those students whose parents cannot supply their kids with a tech device. I had a mom explain to me that she moved to the area to get her kids a good education, but in reality she only works to pay the bills and feed her kids. I then assigned videos as optional.
