These are questions that I can definitely use in the future as a teacher to ensure I am able to question my use of technology. I particularly like the question "How will it transform learning?" , as if you can answer this question, it is likely that you have used technology correctly (or well)!

Different languages are key – helps ELL learners which is important in the US

This is key to online/remote teaching… and something that has definitely come out of Covid 19 – teachers should first send out a survey to students/parents, asking what they have available to them e.g. do they have wifi, access to computers etc.. after this happens, teachers can determine what they will use to support students who do not aforementioned tools available to them

Investment is crucial in this process a this is how these types of communities can become recognized and overcome inequities

When looking at design of technology and apps, it is crucial to think critically when looking for design justice, as it is often under the surface that you find the features that either exclude or exploit certain types of people or communities. I would be interested to see some examples of apps that specifically exploited certain people?

It can feel very invasive when you are taking an exam online and are being monitored – often this is stressful for the students and the worst part is that students cannot do anything to change this… students have to take the exam so they are compelled to being monitored

This grid is a great illustration of how transformation must occur for students in order for learning to occur. It’s not enough to just replace teaching with a given technology or app, they must be creative and interactive in order for learning to occur

This is really useful to link a digital tool to exactly how and what it will develop for students - in the past, my experience with teachers using tools has been more for the sake of using them, rather than actually enhancing learning so these are good examples of exactly how and what each tool is helping to learn.

Scratch is also another good tool that uses constructivism. It is a website that allows student to create games and learn how to code. It uses constructivist learning through students navigating the website and interacting with the different tools to create a game and thus learning to code. https://scratch.mit.edu/

This is very important to ensure that parents/guardians are aware of what and how data is being collected. However, in my opinion, I think that teachers must stress the importance for parents to actually read consent forms or terms and conditions as too many times, they sign it without knowing what it is they are signing for. This is evident with the average of most websites being less than 10 minutes for the time it takes people to read and sign the terms and conditions - this is a very low number considering there are usually over 1000 pages.

the selling of data is an increasing problem across the world as we can see from this chapter. I think it is fair to say that technology and social media specifically, is having a huge impact on our society both positively and negatively. A great documentary that hightlights some of these issues further is the Social Dilemma on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224 Trailer link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaC57tcci0

It is great that a definition of each disability is provided. I think it would be useful to ensure that when developers are creating a tool, they should be provided with definitions of each of the disabilities as well as the frameworks and models to ensure they know the full details of what and who they are catering for.

Social presence is very important in learning and it is great that this is part of the rubric! After studying learning theories, it is definitely evident that much of what we learn is a social process so we as educators should find as many ways as possible to students can interact with one another. This is especially important at the moment during covid, where much of the social part of the classroom is arguably lost due to many schools transitioning to remote learning.

This is really important and something that you can forget about - often you find a source and just because it has been published and it is on the internet, it is easy to think that it is a highly respected source when sometimes this is not the case! I think SIFT is a really useful acronym to put into practice when finding sources.