NOTE: This reflection was written during week one, however, it was not posted now due to technical difficulties.
Hi! Welcome to my blog! This will be the first in a series of weekly reflections that discuss some of the technologies and pedagogies covered in EDCI 336!
We‘ve just started, so I will be reflecting on what I hope to learn in this class.
Rather than set a goal of learning how to use a specific tool, my goal is to evaluate the technologies we are exposed to in class, how they can be accessible or inaccessible to different learners, and how I can possibly integrate these tools in an English Language Arts classroom. For me, setting a goal like “learn how to make video projects in iMovie” would not be an effective goal for me because it seems incomplete. I wouldn’t feel a sense of achievement, instead I would be wondering: what next? How will I integrate this into a classroom? What will I do with this? In this scenario, a more appropriate goal for myself would be to consider how iMovie could or could not be used (considering disabilities, student interest, and whether the school had devices that run on Mac OS), and to come up with a classroom activity students could complete.