Is AI The Future Of Teaching?
This week, I had a fun time exploring the AI tool for teachers called “Magic School.” I was amazed with the number of tools that are available to use on this website. I tried out a few of them: Youtube question Generator, Teacher Joke Generator, Lesson Plan Generator, and the Social Story Generator. For all…
EDTC 300 Summary Of Learning
Here is my Summary of Learning for EDTC 300! The tool I used to create this video only allows videos of 3 minutes, so I split my video into two different parts. I had an amazing semester learning about educational media and technology!
Common Phrases in ASL
This week, I decided to learn some common phrases in ASL. As I have mostly been focusing on learning single words, this was a challenge for myself this week. Some of the phrases such as “my name is…” were tricky as there were three different parts to the sign. Memorizing these signs was definitely an…
Digital Literacy in the Primary Grades
As I am an early elementary teacher, I will have the important task of introducing students to digital literacy and laying the framework for being safe and productive while using digital technologies. Teaching digital literacy at this age will include lots of preemptive class conversations about technology and media. When beginning to teach digital literacy,…
Coding a Dance Party
For class this week, I chose to try one of the activities on the “Hour of Code” website. When I interned in the fall of 2021, my cooperating teacher had our students try out one of the activities on this site and they absolutely loved it! I was really impressed with how well they did…
Pinterest 101
Hi everyone! To start my post this week I want to share a bulletin board display that I noticed at one of the schools I was subbing at this week. Now that I am learning ASL, I am definitely more aware when I see it displayed in schools! I thought this was a great way…
Using Signs in the Classroom
Recently, I have been hearing about more and more about teachers using sign language in the classroom and the benefits that come along with this. First, I love the inclusion piece it brings into the classroom by valuing a different type of language and introducing students to the deaf and hard of hearing community. Second,…
Staying Safe in a Digital World
Digital Safety In school, I remember a few instances that digital citizenship/cyber safety was brought up. In grade 7, (11 years ago) I remember having our school resource officer come and do a presentation on cyber bullying. Although I learned a lot, it seemed very negative. It focused entirely on what not to do…
An “Aha!” Moment
For my learning project this week I decided to learn the signs for colours! I found these signs to be quite fun to learn. They were kind of tricky though because they were all very different from each other, rather than variations of a similar sign. I did notice a connection between some of the…
Media and Technology: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Participation in technology and media has evolved a substantial amount during the just over two decades that I have been alive. During my pre-teen/teen years I saw and participated in the beginning of social media and posting aspects of your life online. When apps like Instagram were first introduced, posting felt very casual. You could…