Al Carmichael – What’s in the bag? (Task #1) Al and I both have a coaching perspective. I discussed (more briefly) in my Task 1 that in having a volleyball line up card in my bag, it shows that I am physically literate enough to teach physical skills to others. Al went into more detail […]
Speculative Futures September 2040: This will be my first year piloting the new differentiation robot: Eddie. Eddie was designed as an AI teacher’s assistant with a specific focus on identifying learning needs in individual students and outputting resources at each of their levels. Eddie can quickly draft up a report on where each student is […]
Attention Economy I related a lot to this week’s topic. I often find myself wasting what could be, very useful time on social media thanks to the autoplay feature and it was interesting to listen to both Harris and Tufecki dissect and present arguments on how dangerous features like autoplay can be. What really stood […]
WEEK 3 LANGUAGE AS TECHNOLOGY: WRITTEN LANGUAGE What effects has writing has on human thought processes? As Gnanadesikan (2011) discusses, writing was ultimately invented to help humans remember information. Because of this, thought processes were able to gain in complexity as individuals no longer had to hold everything inside their brains. They were able […]
WEEK 2 LANGUAGE AS TECHNOLOGY: SPOKEN LANGUAGE As a French immersion teacher, the hardest part of my job is getting my students to speak the their second language with one another. Because of this, I was really looking forward to Module 2. One of the things that Boroditsky (June 2017) discusses in her presentation is […]