Reflection

In order to teach my students how to be digitally literate and filter through misinformation, disinformation, and reality online I would start by teaching about their own biases. For instance, cognitive bias is the umbrella term for what our brains do in their default setting. For example, one type of cognitive bias is when you agree with something because everybody else is agreeing with it—it’s the desire to fit in and survive. Where as conformation bias is when we believe things that confirm what we already believe. For instance, if you were politically liberal you would be more likely to believe liberal news sources than conservative ones, purely because you for the most part agree with them. Another way I would teach my students to be politically literate is to teach them that they do not control their own media searches. While they are the ones typing in the search, the media and advertising often controls which searches you see when and what pops up most often. This means that the most reliable sources cannot be found on the first couple pages of a media search. Often times the unbiased factual information is buried under loads of biased and media dominated information. This is all information that I would use to teach middle and high school students. However, in an early childhood classroom I would begin this discussion by covering how to safely search the internet, and how to safely interact with others online. I believe this is the first step in building lifelong digital literacy.

This workshop was very helpful in learning that I need to prepare my student to determine useful resources. It is important that students know how to successfully research and understand what is a real or fake resources. Teaching digital literacy can allow for students to learn more about the environment of the internet and that it not always so trustful. Students cannot rely on everything they read or see on social media, and should not depend on just one source for information. Teaching and understanding digital literacy will help my students be more successful in their future with technology. 

This technology was very helpful. I can realistically see myself using this in my future classroom. I like how it puts important classroom items on one platform online. It allows for students and the teacher to stay in contact and always be in connection with the class whether at home or at school. I could see myself making a different google classroom for all my classes to organize my classes in an online setting. 

Google Classroom is definitely relative to my future classroom. It is actually one of the most applicable applications relative to my future secondary social studies class that I have become acquainted with throughout this course. If my school did not provide its own interactive whiteboard such as canvas or d2l, I would without a doubt use google classroom. Its a great platform not only for discussion and reminders, but to post class resource files such as the syllabus and scholastic readings. The digital classroom definitely inspires students to adapt to a more digital world.

First I want to say this was a great webinar if you are already familiar with inquiry learning and flip grid. However if you are not familiar with flip grid I wouldn't recommend watching this until you were. I was a little disappointed it didn't talk more about flip grid and specific ways to use it or helping me use it, but it was a great way to give examples on how you can use flip grid and inquiry learning at any grade level and for professional development. I also liked how they gave resources to their sketch notes that were super cool and a great refresher of inquiry based learning. I really want to use inquiry based learning and flip grid in my class so I liked how they showed how you can use them together. Its always great to hear from other educators in different grade levels coming together and showing how they use flip grid in their classroom. Students seem to be motivated and more engaged when they have more control over their learning and flip grid allows them to do that in some ways. In all my favorite part was when one teacher talked about how she uses flip grid in kindergarten which was something I had never thought about and would love to try in my future classroom.

Pear Deck can be used to present new or old information to my classroom in a manner where my students can interact with the presentation. They are able to answer multiple choice questions, write short response answers, and even draw their answers which accommodates many learning styles. I can use this in my current classes to make presentations more interactive to my audience as well. I chose Facilitator as my standard because Pear Deck makes it easier for students to answer questions without having to shout out answers and they are able to interact with the class without leaving their seat. Also, for me as a teacher, I am able to record the data from discussions and answers to questions through Pear Deck. Overall, this is a very useful program that I will be implementing in my classroom as well as in my current coursework.

This is relevant to my future classroom because this is one of the most important aspects to incorporate into the classroom for students. Teaching digital literacy is important because my future students need to know how to work and use technology properly and efficiently as it continues to evolve. Learning about how to teach digital literacy is important as an educator because it is up to us to teach students all the important aspects that go into this. 

I really enjoyed using peardeck. I feel that this is an app that I might use in the future for my classroom. I like the part of being in charge of the students iPad through this because I feel it will help me to manage the classroom. Because of this, the students will be able to stay on task and get our day to move on in a positive way. My favorite part about the app was how interactive it was. When doing stuff where a student just watches a PowerPoint, they most always get bored and lose interest. By using pear deck they will be able to apply the skills that we are working on gaining while not losing interest.

I found this workshop useful for my future workshop. We worked with iMovie. I plan to teach social studies and iMovie can be used to create video projects. Social Studies encompasses history, so iMovie can be used for my students to create a re-enactment of a historical event, or my students can use this instead of having to present in class. I believe this will also be useful if I have a substitute teacher, I can have a video ready for my class. iMovie seems like a good tool for my future classroom. 

This is relevant to my future classroom because it will help me reach the needs of all my students and accommodate in different way to make sure they are benefiting from their education. I could use tools that I learned about in the book we went over to meet the needs of students and meet them where they are at. Allow them to use IPad functions to help them learn and display their knowledge to their full ability. This could mean having the text read to them, speaking their text, using the zoom option, or even  having inverted colors. Each accessibility should be used for all the students in the class. It is to help each individual student in a certain way. It will help them become better learners and if I have the opportunity to be at a school with technology accessibly is something that I will utilize accordingly and often. Since we just learned and tried out different accessibility options, we did not create anything. We just used our Ipad and did hands on activities that helped us where to find and how to use the different features. 

I enjoyed learning about Google Classroom. In the future, I can see myself utilizing it in my classroom. There are a variety ways that I could use it. For example, I post all of my powerpoints, class notes and assignments for students to go back over. I could also use surveys as quizzes or actual surveys. At the beginning of the year, I can create a get to know you survey for my students to take. This way, I have all their data in a quick and easy way. Organization is important to me so I really liked that you were able to organize your Google Classroom in a way that makes the most sense for you.