Thanks to you all! This will be the last post of the course! I had a really good time seeing everyone’s progress and thanks to you for commenting and cheering me up with my learning project as well! you can see the slides to some screenshots of my contributions here 

I’ve tried the AI app Grammarly and I think it could be used in the classroom by the teacher or students by working as a writing assistant, but I wouldn’t use it from the first stage of the writing. I would let the students work on their own and paste it on Grammarly so they can reflect on their grammar, spelling, and writing styles. It can help teachers time to revise the grammar and focus more on the writing goals, such as the message of the writing. It can help students engage because they would have immediate feedback so they can move on to other goals. It can help different…

Increasing our collective digital literacy to combat fake news and dangers and to teach them in my field which is English for teenagers would be difficult for me because back in México we don’t see that as teachers. Now that I see this information in this course I had to re-evaluate and it’s something I found interesting and it’s important to improve our capacity to locate and analyze the digital sources we use as teachers. I think we already try to do that in our daily lives because now technology is an aspect that has monopolized many aspects of our lives and fake news in México is something really common…

This week I tried coding for the first time, I used Scratch because a friend told me it was easier. To be honest I was super confused, I have never coded anything and I didn’t really know the theory behind it. Luckily the platform had video tutorials I followed and I think I could make something good out of it. I think it’s a great beginner-friendly platform because everything seems simple, you don’t have a lot of things that can make the process overwhelming so I liked that because I truly didn’t know anything about coding. Even if it seems like it has simple blocks, it still has options such…

What I recall of cyber safety was maybe all the grades before high school. I remember when I was little, working in the computer lab and with my friends trying to log into online games or Facebook but they were blocked. After that, I remember having small talks about how people can create fake accounts on Facebook to get your information, and you were supposed to avoid publishing your location, the school you attended, and so on. Then in high school and University in Mexico, you are supposed to bring your own devices so there were no blocks on mine. But we had the common sense of not posting anything…

The internet certainly brought thousands of changes to society in general. But those changes were also reflected in the classroom. I cannot imagine teachers at that time suddenly being filled with new references to what was happening with the internet. It’s something that has never stopped evolving.  As the video “An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube” shows us, the group ages who are most active on the internet are the 18 to 24 group, followed by the 12 to 17. This means most of our students are the generational group who are more active on the internet, which means they will have a different perception of reality than adults, for example.  Nowadays the…

Most of my apps are used for social interaction. I really like Instagram, WhatsApp, and TikTok. As it is my first time living in a different country to avoid being Homesick, I stay in touch with my family and friends through WhatsApp. It is amazing how technology brought people together. Instagram is the one in which I share my special moments and, as a fan of taking pictures, I’m really active there. Even tho I like to stay organized, I haven’t downloaded a specific one to organize. I’m more traditional in that sense and I just write the weekly assignments I need to do in my notebook. But the UofR…

Hello! I’m Fer, from Mexico :). To talk about my experience with educational technology would be for me to tell you about my little obsessions since I was a kid. I’ve always wanted to learn something new. I had many hobbies and it’s all thanks to YouTube. I spent a lot of time watching videos looking for my next little obsession.   I would do a lot of DIYs, I learned how to bake and decorate cakes which I took to the next level and improved my skills over time and started a business and Instagram page,  I learned how to crochet (which I also found to be a great…