{"id":17,"date":"2021-09-19T15:12:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/?p=17"},"modified":"2021-09-19T15:12:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:12:59","slug":"whats-in-your-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/2021\/09\/19\/whats-in-your-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s In Your Bag?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is Terri-Lynn McLeod.\u00a0 I teach senior high math, science, and a variety of CTS (career and technology) courses at a small junior\/senior high school in Wabasca, Alberta, about 350 km north of Edmonton.\u00a0 For this project, I chose the backpack that I take to work at school every day.\u00a0 The picture shows what I found in the one compartment of the bag.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As I emptied the bag, I found things that I use every day and things that I haven\u2019t used in some time, but are there \u201cjust in case.\u201d\u00a0 The pens and pencils are still used everyday even though we are progressing towards more digital technologies in our classes.\u00a0 Despite the abundance of technologies available, I still use pens and pencils to record attendance on paper, mark math workbooks, and make notes on planning for my classes.\u00a0 All of the pens and pencils have some text on them somewhere indicating at least the company that produced them.\u00a0 The sticky notes are used in conjunction with the pens to create a type of non-digital text message, possibly to myself, a student, or a colleague.\u00a0 Surprisingly, there was no text on the back of the pad.\u00a0 The highlighters are used less often to identify important information in written documents.\u00a0 I use the calculator on a daily basis as I teach math and physics.\u00a0 The face of the calculator is covered with a variety of text: numbers, symbols, operations, and functions.\u00a0 It does take some special training to be able to decode all of the text on the front of this calculator.\u00a0 For many of the buttons, the text is replicated on the screen.\u00a0 The ruler has mostly numerical text, especially on the front.\u00a0 On the back side, there is a conversion table from inches to millimetres.\u00a0 The flash drives and the portable SSD have very little text on their surfaces, but hold huge quantities of a variety of text in digital form, including books, documents such as tests, and photos.\u00a0 The presentation remote helps me to efficiently share many of the texts on the drives as well as text stored in my Google Drive with students in class.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the more random items in the bag are not directly related to my teaching, but may be helpful during the day: nail file, CPR mask keychain, business card, hand lotion, glasses cleaning kit, mints, and medications.\u00a0 All of them have some sort of text on them, many of the items have text in both English and French and the text is helpful in determining the proper use of the item.<\/span><\/p>\n

The items in my bag represent a variety of literacies.\u00a0 These literacies include mathematical\/numerical literacy, digital literacy, text\/reading and writing literacy, technological literacy, media literacy, and health\/medical literacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because this is a bag that I take to work and most of the items in the bag are used for my teaching job, the picture painted by the objects in the bag is not particularly private.\u00a0 The one exception is the medication in the bag.\u00a0 It is necessary for my overall well-being but not directly connected to my teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking back 20 years, the contents of my bag for work were not so different than they are today.\u00a0 There would have been no presentation remote, or portable SSD.\u00a0 The flash drive would have probably been 128 MB instead of 32GB.\u00a0 There would have been an older model of the calculator with no colour screen or rechargeable battery.\u00a0 I would have had pens and pencils, probably in a greater variety of colours.\u00a0 Many of the other random items would have been there as well, as some things don\u2019t change over the years.\u00a0 Looking forward, an archaeologist would look at my bag and see a time of transition.\u00a0 Look at a pencil beside a 1TB portable drive in the same bag.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Terri-Lynn McLeod.\u00a0 I teach senior high math, science, and a variety of CTS (career and technology) courses at a small junior\/senior high school in Wabasca, Alberta, about 350 km north of Edmonton.\u00a0 For this project, I chose the backpack that I take to work at school every day.\u00a0 The picture shows what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-tasks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tlmcleodetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}