what is this blog for? {entry #1}

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The purpose of creating this blog is to meet the course requirements of Education 422 that I am taking at Cal State University San Marcos. Hopefully while still completing blog assignments, I also hope to create an interactive outlet for myself in terms of education. I am on the path of becoming an elementary school teacher one day, (hopefully either 3rd or 2nd grade). What I would like to discuss in this blog is anything that involve education but with a multicultural perspective. I recently finished a course that concentrated on diversity in education and after completing the course, I am a strong believer in a multicultural education. I will be looking for projects, trends, inspirations, ideas, current events, and anything involving education in our society with a multicultural point of view to post on this blog.

My technology experience hasn't been that great but it is improving. I find myself fascinated more and more each day. I don't know if this is a good or bad thing. I consider myself to be more of a hands on kind of person. I like to do things up front and interactive with people in person. But more and more, I see myself sucked in to this virtual reality that our society is becoming obsessed with. Whatever happened to writing each other hand written letters and mailing them? Or a simple phone call to say hello or happy birthday? Everything is done through cyber space or via telephone. I see myself turning into one of those people that text's happy birthday through their telephone and I use to be one of those people that criticize people for not being more personal and depending on technology to get in touch with people. But in this case, it's society growing and our culture expanding. You can't stop a culture from maturing, you can only go along with it. But what helps is keeping in touch with your past, and remembering to always ying out and yang. 

My previous experience with education has been pretty active up until graduating from college. I went into a field that was more of a corporate environment and never really truly enjoyed it, except for the money aspect of it. But money can only go so far. I came to realize that this was not the career both that I wanted to continue on and that I wanted to pursue my aspirations that I had upon graduating form SFSU. Education, working with kids has always brought me joy and satisfaction. During college, I had the opportunity to working with an under privilege elementary school for 8 weeks. It was an experience of a lifetime and it was something, and still is, that I carry on today. After that experience I knew that I wanted to pursue a career as a teacher. 

I want to be a great teacher. I want to make a difference in a child's life. I want to have that feeling, that at the end of each school year, I felt like I did all that I could do to enrich my students with an equal opportunity of education and that I taught each child that best that I could. If this course will help me achieve that goal, then I am looking forward to Education 422.