EDTC 300

One of the biggest ways I learned this semester was through being able to communicate with my classmates on our blogs and through Discord. It truly created a classroom community, which is extremely important, especially in online classes because we don’t have that face to face connection. The main way that I was engaging in […]

For this blog post, I looked through many different AI tools, however most of the ones I looked at were extremely similar to Chat GPT, which I am familiar with and I wanted to try something different. I eventually landed on Magic School. This is an AI tool made for educators to make creating lessons […]

For this weeks blog post, I decided to do a Hour of Code option on Code.org. As soon as I got on the website, I saw the one I wanted to do which was creating my own dance party. I chose this because I knew it would be a very fun way to try out […]

Identifying fake news is not something that I would even think to address in grade 3 (which is my desired grade level) classroom, as they do not really seem like the type of age to be keeping up with the news. However, after exploring various headlines in class and looking at articles and identifying whether […]

I decided to take the cyber sleuthing route this week for my blog post and be an online sleuth for my best friend. She is fairly active on many social medias including Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and Tik Tok and they are all set to public. Beginning with her profession, you are immediately able to conclude […]

Digital citizenship is extremely important to teach in the classroom, especially in this day and age. Technology is continuously advancing as stated in Character Education for the Digital Age, “Our current technological trajectory promises unfathomable, roller coaster innovation with no braking system”. (Ohler, 2011). To ensure I am assisting my students in developing the skills to use […]

Looking at what we discussed in class, technology has grown substantially in the past years, and how it is used in schools. A lot of the technology we discussed in lecture, are not even used these days anymore. That only means that as I am beginning my career right now, in 5 or 10 years […]

To document my learning project progress this week, I decided to use an app that I use quite frequently in my everyday life… Tik Tok. I decided to use Tik Tok because it is a platform that I am already familiar with and that is very popular for people my age. Even though I already […]

My technology use on a day to day basis varies heavily on how busy I am during the day. I find on the days where I am sitting around doing nothing, I am endlessly scrolling on my phone. The apps that I use the most frequently are definitely Snapchat, Tiktok and Instagram. I go on […]