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Mission Accomplished
For my learning project I decided to try to learn how to bake. I never really liked baking because I would usually get stressed out if what I made did not come out perfect. However, after giving it a shot over the past few weeks I have learnt to like it. Week One In the first week, my goal was to accurately gage where my baking skills were at. So, I decided to bake something with an experienced baker, and…
Semester Wrap-Up
This Spring, my EDTC 300 class was one of the most challenging classes I have taken in University so far. It was not challenging like a typical University class is, but it was challenging in the way it changed my perspective of technology. In this class, I was pushed out of my comfort zone and forced to face my fear of Social Media and online strangers. I was re-introduced to Social Media in a professional manner and was able to…
Teaching Digital Literacy in a Digital World
The internet is an interesting place where we compile unfiltered information and discuss this information to no end. I was first introduced to the internet in first grade. My teacher had rented the single cart of MacBooks the school had and sent us to exploring the internet. She wrote a link on the white board to type into the search bar, and I was completely lost. As I grew older, computers and the internet became a larger part of my…
Is Coding our Future?
The world is in a state of constant digitization, and with that comes many changes. We refer to the modern age as the digital age, a age in which we live in a virtual world. In the past, when we move from one age to another, new jobs arise. Similar to the industrial age, new types of professions arise as technology advances. As technology continues to advance in the modern age, it is expected that Computer Programmers/Scientists will be in…
Being Aware of Digital Identity
So, you met someone new and you really liked them. You thought, “I could be friends with this person.”, and when you go home you look them up on social media. From doing so, you are able to discover their hobbies, work experience, family members, and political views. By doing this, you are cyber sleuthing, whether you know it or not. In the digital age, it is normal for people to feel as if they have instant access to information….
Teacher Responsibility: Being an Active Citizen
Educators are asked to fill a very large role in society. They are expected to be leaders, caring, diplomatic, and intelligent. However, there are also unspoken expectations as well. Teachers are expected to please many people simultaneously, despite what they think is best. Teachers often live in fear of backlash from their communities for advocating social justice. However, I believe that teachers have a responsibility to be advocates of social change. Active Citizenship in Digital Spaces as a Teacher Teachers…
Baking with Adobe Premiere Rush
This week I decided to document my learning project by video taping it. I knew that to do this I would need to find a video editing website or app, so, I searched on google “Best free video editing apps”. After a bit of trial and error I came across Adobe Premiere Rush. Getting Started My first task was to decide what I wanted to bake and video tape myself baking it. I decided that I wanted to try making…
How Can Teachers Capitalize Off of Participatory Culture?
If you were to walk into a grade 8 classroom today, you would be greeted with thirty pre-teens doing TikTok dances at what seems to be random and inappropriate moments. What you might not know is that this is a product of participatory culture. As a result of the internet becoming a central component of our lives, a new type of culture has arisen: participatory culture. In Michael Welsch’s lecture, “An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube”, Wesch discusses how instead of…
Challenge Accepted
This week I wanted to bake something that was beyond my skill set. After some internet searching, I came across this video on how to make a checkerboard cake. I decided to take some liberty in a few things in order to work with the ingredients I already had. Recipe Cake I used Duncan Hines French Vanilla Cake Mix. I only used one box. Ingredients 1 Cup Water (I used almond milk instead because my mother-in-law said it tastes really…