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Are we giving social media too much agency in framing it as a thief of childhood? Have you ever been so excited for something that you don’t even consider the potential drawbacks of what you are excited for?  It is my belief that this is what happened with society and social media. It was at the kitchen table in my childhood home where I convinced my mom to let me commit my first act of identity fraud and lie about…

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In my first EC&I 830 post, I confessed that my teaching life is largely held together by an unreasonable number of browser tabs. In other words, move over Red Green and your duct tape, here’s Mr. Sharp and his brower tabs! *That reference might be too old for some of my classmates, which also makesContinue reading “More Tabs, More Learning? Protecting the Sacred Space of the Classroom”

After a great discussion within our class, I remain in agreeance that social media is ruining childhoods. I do not want to get caught up on the word “ruin”, as I am taking it from the perspective of negatively impacting and affecting adolescents’ childhood. To clarify, being against social media does not equate to being […]

After a very engaging debate and reading/viewing the literature provided by the debate facilitators. I have affirmed my initial belief and believe that this statement is true. Technology is more than screens and computers. Technology in education expands to a plethora of tools and devices we use within our school walls. Within the classroom, as […]

Finding a balance between starving ourselves of and binging on technology in education. I wanted to continue with the food metaphors that were used in the first debate today, and I thought that it naturally paired perfectly with the following idiom (or maybe even existential question): Can we have our cake and eat it too when it comes to utilizing technology in education? The spices and cooking metaphor really sent me down a path of reflection and consideration that I…

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When I take a moment to try to define my philosophy regarding technology in education, I often end up fearing that I am showing students “the steep and thorny way to heaven” while “reck[ing] [my] own rede” (Shakespeare, 1992, I. III. 49-51).  Although Shakespeare says it much more eloquently, at the end of the day I find myself being a hypocrite regarding technology. Despite telling my students that they should not use technology for things that they can do on…

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This year, at a humourous student-voted teacher awards ceremony at an assembly, I was given the title of “Teacher with Most Tabs Open.” In a high school with over 50 other teachers, I am choosing to see this as a professional distinction rather than a cry for help. It was, however, perceptive. And accurate. OnContinue reading “My Teaching Life, as Told by Browser Tabs”

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