This is the category to apply to your Weekly Reflection posts from the course.
Here is the sketchnote I made to reflect my learning and big takeaways from this course. I enjoyed learning more about how to ethically incorporate technology into my future classroom as well as some tools that could be useful to use in my teachings. Thank you for a great course, I hope you have a…
A topic that we discussed this week which I think is very important is digital footprints. In class, we did an activity where we googled ourselves to see what would come up. I have done this activity before and found that there were very few things about me online which I was glad about, I…
This week we talked about EdCamps and participated in one as a class. The EdCamp that I took part in discussed building student skills. What I found interesting about the concept of EdCamp is the method in which the sessions are approached. I think that allowing people to choose what they want to learn about…
This week we looked at the concept of coding and gaming and how they can be embedded into the classroom. I very much enjoyed doing the coding activity as it is something I remember doing when I was in my Grade 12 Physics class. I find coding to be a great way for students to…
This week I partook in the field trip to the Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry. I found this field trip to be very exciting and I found that it was an environment that I would love to teach in for multiple reasons. At this school, students are in charge of their own learning and…
The Pro-D Day presentation I wanted to attend this week was the session discussing how National Film Board of Canada films can be used in the classroom for various age groups. While I had technical difficulties and was not able to actually attend the session, I did receive the resource that was offered from the…
This week I was interested in the Google tools which were discussed, Google Keep and Google Classroom. While I do not see myself using Google Keep as a tool very much as I already have a service I use for taking notes, I could see it being useful to introduce to students. I also am…
Some of the biggest limitations to GenAI that I consider to be critical, especially in the field of education, are the limitations of critical thinking, creativity, and judgement. Critical thinking is a skill that is exceptionally important for all people to have, especially in the world we live in today where it is so easy…
Video and audio are very useful tools for my teachable area of music, specifically in high school music classes. Within music there is a lot of room for students to learn how to record themselves as they play and how to achieve the best sound on their instrument for recording purposes. Using video and audio…
Do we need to reimagine education? Education needs to be reimagined to a certain extent. While there have been many good changes within the realm of education done over the last few decades, there is still much room for growth towards a world where education is more conducive to our changing world and therefore our…