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My name is Ian Lee. I work as a middle school math teacher at an independent school in West Vancouver, BC and have been working here for 6 years.<\/p>\n
For this exercise, I chose to reveal my work shoulder bag that I carry for work purposes. I also carry a second bag, but as it only serves as a lunch bag and overflow for assessments to be marked, I have decided to only focus on my shoulder bag primarily. This photo is taken on early January, 2021.<\/p>\n
In this bag, I hold my work essentials as a math teacher; my work computer (Surface hybrid tablet-computer) with paired stylus, agenda, student assessments, graphing calculator, and pencil case. There are several health-related items as well that I carry as necessities; my asthma puffer and aerochamber, hand sanitizer, eye-drops, a spare facemask, and over-the-counter pain medication for emergencies. An additional item unrelated to my work and health is a novel that I borrowed recently from the library, titled \u2018Andromeda Strain\u2019 by Michael Crichton.<\/p>\n
Of all my items from my bag, I use my work computer the most, agenda, followed by my graphing calculator and pencil case. Student assessments are non-daily but occur periodically throughout the academic year; this batch represents three classes of tests my students completed prior to the holidays. My health-related items serve only for emergencies; my hope is that I do not actually need to use them at all.<\/p>\n
Text Technologies: <\/strong><\/p>\n The text technologies of my bag show my engagement with both written text and digital text. As a math teacher, I still depend heavily on written assessments as student proof of understanding as opposed to digitally constructed answers. Among my stack of assessments, some student work is digital; these students completed their assessments at home, but still submitted their files electronically, and I printed them out to mark. My agenda is a reminder of my constant fluctuation between depending on my digital list and written list to organize my weeks. My calculator reveals my daily interaction with symbolic text with numbers, as I work with students in understanding and engaging with their curriculum. Finally, my book of written text is my getaway from the digital world.<\/p>\n The health contents of my bag are usually more private, as I hesitate to share any signs of weakness despite knowing that it is not really one at all. Even though I remind myself that each person has their own health profile of pains and ailments to varying degrees, I try to tuck such information away; after all, the pandemic has pushed the quality of health into the spotlight, and any identifying factors of risk such as asthma incurs a conversational \u201cuh-oh\u201d.<\/p>\n If I look back in time to 15 or 25 years ago, I was in school. My shoulder bag would have been a backpack, my lunch would have been the biggest thing I carried, and my health items replaced with textbooks and its pages. I still would have had a good book to read, calculator, pencil case, and agenda. Remarkably, most things would have stayed the same; just the health items would have been absent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My name is Ian Lee. I work as a middle school math teacher at an independent school in West Vancouver, BC and have been working here for 6 years. For this exercise, I chose to reveal my work shoulder bag that I carry for work purposes. I also carry a second bag, but as it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83724,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540ianlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540ianlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540ianlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540ianlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540ianlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540ianlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540ianlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540ianlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540ianlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540ianlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}