This is confirming for me. I have heard in some of my other classes that these all bring their own strengths to learners to the table. I think while different it is kind of similar to multiple modes of learning in the sense that these are all important but can coincide with one another. And I think when these are present it will be more beneficial to learners and help them have a growth mindset.

I actually first learned about this style of teaching a few semesters ago in a different education class I took. I think this style has a lot of upsides from student engagement to problem solving to collaboration etc... I have explored some of this with my own projects for teaching in education 524 where I had a project to design a lesson plan and focus on learner engagement. This is a strategy I will be implementing in my own classroom one day.

Are these educational companies that track student data for-profit companies? I have to imagine so if they are tracking data to make sales that almost seems counterintuitive to them benefitting schools or learning in any way. I wonder if these companies care about their products at all or literally just exist for profit margins which they grow by tracking students data.

This to me is probably the most underrated of the 6 principles. I think this compared to some of the others is done in such subliminal ways that if it's done well it can go undetected by an audience. I know for me some of the best media I like really pulls at all the emotions from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows, like star wars.

I was not always a fan of these types of seminars although I do understand the purpose of them. I feel there are other ways of achieving the same results of asking and answering questions based on the previous question but the author's point of fostering learning through collaboration is super necessary to helping all students learn the curriculam

I think this is a seriously underrated and underappreciated point in schools. Too many times kids are made to feel bad about something that happened that teachers or even their peers don't understand. You can't be a successful educator until you take a step back and look at issues from your student's perspectives. after all, we all went to school too and know what it's like

I'm not sure if i am interpreting this concept correctly but it sounds to me like a very radical change to shake up the system and ways we learn but also how we live our lives too. I think this could be a great idea in solving some of the issues we have with our education system today especially because of how webbed and connected the internet is and how that can very much reflect the connectivism ideology.

I've never heard of connectivism as a theory before but this sounds pretty interesting. I like how it's out of the control of the learning. It's pretty much what ever happens happens and that's how you learn. this might be a bad analogy but it sounds like what happens in space in the cosmos. Its so out of our control and we never know what will happen but we are constantly learning and exploring.

This is pretty relatable. Especially to college work. Most Moodle assignments and assignments I've had are blog or feed style assignments where you post to a forum. I think this eliminates a lot of wasted paper too. Online forums are a major tool utilized at UMass and I think will go more mainstream too very soon.

I think this is a very under-appreciated point. So often teachers show their class educational videos on YouTube. This is such a new utilized in the classroom too. I think it may be one of the best online tools and it's certainly a great example of new technology in schools.

I personally think this was the biggest turning point in the history of the American education system. for widespread computer usage to now be accessible to children, it changes the way we teach and learn fundamentally. think about how much time a teacher could save in class throwing up a slide show on a projector as opposed to painstakingly writing out all the lectures material on a chalk board. teaching became more efficient and that would be a huge benefit to students who could have more time to ask questions and understand the material they were learning about.