Digital Learning Philosophy
My path to education started during the pandemic when the world was forced to quarantine and students attempted to continue their education online. In this day and age, the task did not seem particularly daunting for me or my family, but unfortunately, that was not the case for many families in my small border town of Eagle Pass, Tx. What I was ignorant of was the fact that the MAJORITY of early childhood students in my district were Spanish-speaking or bilingual students who did not have the resources at home to successfully complete their assignments. While my kindergartener and I got along just fine following vague instructions from teachers, many of her classmates found it impossible. This is when I volunteered to help other parents from her class navigate and translate google classroom in order to help their students succeed. That is how my appreciation and curiosity about digital literacy and online tools began to grow. It became very obvious that digital literacy would be vita