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…
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Summary of learning
Above is my summary of learning, sorry if I’m too bad at drawing, I thought it would be an interesting and fun way to wrap up this semester. Also, I blame my tools, I did this only with the mouse pad. But it’s cute give it a go!
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Almost there
This week I finally continued a song, the Spirited Away theme. I found it difficult to learn both hands for the second part of the song so I opted for a new strategy. I learned the first part of the song with both hands and for the sound part, I focused only on the right hand. I feel like I need to practice more but because of school, I haven’t had a lot of time. I don´t want to be left behind so I’m planning on adding more study hours to my piano project. I found that this ability needs a lot of practice and maybe it’s a bit late…
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Coding….
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…
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Piano pedal and the Studio Ghibli
This week I had a moment of epiphany. I was listening to this playlist on Spotify because, honestly I wasn’t feeling motivated to look for a song to play on the piano. I was feeling frustrated because there are a lot of songs I would like to play but they are too difficult. While I was listening to the songs a new one started and since the first note was played I knew right away which song it was. It is called One Summer Day and it is from the soundtrack of the movie Spirited Away. This is one of my favorite movies so I knew I had to at…
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Are we into Pop now?
For this week I was thinking about which song should go next. With the previous ones I get somewhere good and then I move into the next song but this time I tried to pick one that wasn’t so easy. I love Olivia Rodrigo’s songs, I love to sing, I’m terrible at it but I love to do it. Olivia is one of my favorite female singers and she’s so talented on the piano too. Her new song, Vampire, is a masterpiece. I always sing it like I’m heartbroken even if I’m not, is such a great song, and recently I watched on Tiktok this guy dressed as Michael Myers…
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Are we safe on the Internet?
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…
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Was I doing it wrong?
While analyzing my previous video I could tell that I’m not even doing a proper hand posture. I think it’s something really important to fix as a beginner because those bad habits could be difficult to fix later at a more advanced level. I could feel in some songs my hand is not big enough but I could find videos and articles talking about how to improve your hand posture. One of the videos I found the most helpful was this one This channel has a lot of useful tips for beginners and with practice, I was somehow able to fix that mistake but sometimes I forgot and I started…
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The internet
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…
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Getting somewhere
For this week I tried a new online resource. It’s a webpage where you can find lots of music sheets for beginners The bad thing is that you have to pay to get the music sheets. But you can print a sample (it only gives you 1 page free) and that’s what I did! So instead of getting 2 pages, I got 1 for free, so it’s okay because I’m still learning. I think it’s a great resource for the future because there are a lot of songs to choose from, even the newest ones! So later would be a great investment. This week I’m learning the Halloween Theme…