I’ve been using Twitter for awhile now and as I mentioned in one of my earlier posts I use it as a primary news source. I mentioned in one of my earlier posts that I may need to rethink this since the Elon Musk takeover. However I haven’t noticed a huge difference in my feed … Continue reading "Time for Twitter!"

Will, Catrina, Mike, and I thought we would love to work together to demonstrate our learnings this semester. Please enjoy our Guardians of the Galaxy inspired project. We had a ton of fun making it; many laughs were had!

Ok, so as Will, Mike, Catrina and I were filming our superhero summary of learning this past week, I asked one of my students to pretend she was cheating via ChatGPT, and then I, ala ChatWoman, would obviously swoop in and deter her from this choice. When I asked her to do this, one of … Continue reading "“It feels like … cheating”"

Exploring the world of social justice and social media… In the article Amanda & Jacquie shared, Scherman and Rivera suggest that “citizens’ political participation stands at the “heart of democracy” (Verba et al., 1995, p. 1).” And, in one of the articles Alec shared, Benjamin Doxtdator argues that “our schools are not neutral contexts and … Continue reading "If social justice doesn’t happen on social media, did it happen at all?"

This week’s debate: “Educators and schools have a responsibility to help their students develop a digital footprint.” Ultimately I understand the arguments that the “disagree” side was making: teachers are not fully equipped to teach about digital citizenship, and the responsibility should ultimately lie with parents. As well, the responsibility of teaching this adds more … Continue reading "Digital Citizenship… to teach or not to teach?"