The topic of online learning is one that is fairly near and dear to my heart. As a mother of two small kids, there is nothing I love more then organizing childcare for an hour and a half while I zip downstairs to my basement to attend class, rather then organizing childcare for 3 or… Read More »
The video assigned for this week’s blog prompt was a humorous way to describe the distractibility that children and adults face due to the accessibility of technology. When posed with the question, “Is the Internet really a productivity tool or merely an endless series of distractions?,” I have to argue that it is dependent on the… Read More »
One of the tasks of this week’s blog was to unpack Neil Postman’s quote, “… We now know that “Sesame Street” encourages children to love school only if school is like “Sesame Street.” In a failed attempt to find this exact quote, I uncovered an interview Postman gave in 1989. Postman expressed similar views to… Read More »
Part of this week’s task was to familiarize ourselves with a Logo emulator by using tasks outlined in this Logo Workbook. Like Brooke, this was also my first experience using computer codes to generate images. Perhaps my first observation of this coding program was how useful it would be in a mathematics class for students learning concepts such… Read More »