Google Suite is Sweet!

 I have always been a big fan of Google's applications ever since I was in middle school and my assignments started to be based around them. Now, almost all of my assignments involve at least one of Google's awesome applications. As a future math teacher, I think that all of the application's in Google Suite can be very useful for my students learning experience. For example, since my content area is math, I will be able to use spreadsheets a lot in my classroom when it comes to many topics such as business math, interest growth, etc. and use them for  group and individual projects. With Google slides and presentations, I can have my students make a doc or presentation on many different things thing as the steps to solve something or have them present projects as well using these formats.  Growing up in the digital has been very different from what my mother talks about in her "back in my day" stories, but I wouldn't change a thing. The future is bright with Google Suite for Education.



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