Weekly Reflections

I really enjoyed the topic this week even though, I have to admit, I thought it might be a bit of a dud. Thankfully, I was pleasantly surprised and found a handful of pieces particularly interesting, all of them themed around privacy. I’ll jump in with the first thing… Lovepreet‘s article and presentation this week […]

For someone who has a relatively limited online presence, I spend a lot of time online. Obviously my work requires a substantial amount of computer time, but I spend a decent amount of time outside of work scrolling. According to my screentime tracker, I spend anywhere from 3 to 4 hours using my phone in […]

Life has thrown me a few curve balls lately, so I’m still behind in my blog posts – but this is the week for me to catch up! I’m going all the way back to what it means to be literate today and I wanted to talk about this topic from the viewpoint of the […]

I’m a week behind in our blog posts, so I’m actually reaching back to last week when we were asked to reflect on digital citizenship in our schools and what the teacher’s role is in this process. I have to be honest, I’m still having mixed feelings on this topic and how it should/could be […]

I have mentioned quite a few times already that up until this class I have had very little activity online personally, although I do use some digital strategies in my classroom. I keep a few social media accounts but very rarely actually post on them. A small part of my resistance has to do with […]

It’s probably an understatement to say that the education system has been rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic and that many changes have been ushered in during the last few years, however I would argue that many of these changes were already starting and that the pandemic just worked to accelerate them. Take a look at […]