Learning the ABCs for ASL was a little difficult for my brain and fingers to move in ways they have not before. I have never had to think of using my hands and gestures for communication. It took my brain a couple attempts to move the way I wanted them to. I had 0 experience when it came to ASL. I tried using Signschool for my ABCs but I did not enjoy the interface of the app as much as I had hoped for the ABCs. A lot of the future learning I will need to know was blocked by paywalls and I am unsure of how much I want…
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Teaching in the Digital Age: Embracing Connectivity, Building Community
Michael Wesch’s presentation on the history of YouTube had a major theme to me. Community. YouTube has created a global community consisting of millions of people. Wesch talks about the “global connections” YouTube, and now every social media platform, that can create “unimaginable possibilities”. Social media and YouTube have evolved over the years and more people are connected than ever before, but somehow still, people feel alone or isolated. In an article by Forbes, multiple studies have been done as to why people feel alone despite the global connectedness of social media. Kids today spend less time socializing in person with one another than kids from the 90s, 80s and…