Alex Facciponte's EDU Technology Blog

Week 2 Blog Post There can be many perspectives on the dividing factors for my specific community. In Wilmon Brown’s work, he mentions how there can be limited technology due to costs (Brown, 2020). For my particular community, there have been issues with students receiving proper and updated technology for their schooling efforts. While we are ahead other districts nationwide by providing students directly with laptops, these laptops are incredibly outdated. Students, as well as teachers, are finding difficulty keeping up due to this lack of resources. Students have to endure the most struggle. Students are expected to use the same laptop they received from elementary school through high school graduation. When I heard this, I could not believe it was real. There needs to be a better system in place to give students more updated technology so they can utilize it as best as possible. Another issue students of mine could potentially run into is internet access at home. Brown’s work also...

  Introduce Myself Hello everyone! My name is Alex Facciponte. I am from Long Island, New York. I graduated this past May from a small private university called St. Joseph’s University. It was a quick and convenient commute. My degree is in history adolescent education. I have been working as a permanent substitute at South Ocean Middle School this year. This school is located within the Patchogue-Medford school district. I wanted to get valuable experience substituting while working on my master's in the meantime. However, I have gotten more than I bargained for. I have basically walked into a leave replacement position as a special education English teacher. Although I feel severely underqualified, I am doing my best and learning a lot daily. It gives me more confidence that if I can do a good job in this role, I could only imagine the possibilities if I taught my subject area of expertise. I look forward to getting to know and working with you all in this course!  Insights/...