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  1. Jan 2022
    1. This particular property of construction systems (such as programming languages) is both a powerful advantage and a diffi-culty. It is powerful because the complex-ity of an idea often inheres in the way it is represented, but that representation is not just in the program code.

      I believe this is the same when it is applied to content knowledge. When we know what we are teaching our presentation of our lessons becomes more engaging. When the content knowledge is lacking, the lesson becomes less engaging. Students become disinterested and soon they don't come to class or they becomes disruptive in class.

    2. designing learning environments that integrate digital tech-nologies, one needs to recognise that the tools made available shape the activity in ways that to some extent are predictable but in some are not.

      With all the different learning environments such Google Classroom, Schoology, etc. All educators need to recognize the tools and become familiar with each one of them so that teaching will be simple and smooth. Right now most educators are only familiar with the basic tools and their teaching is really not interactive. Once we learn all the tools, the lessons will become interactive.

    3. building a model, reflect-ing on it, debugging and sharing.

      This reminds me of Dine College's Educational Philosophy with is Sa'ah Naaghai Bik'eh Hozhoo which has to do with thinking or goal setting, planning or plan ahead, living or have a satisfactoring academic progress and finally assuring or preparing for future success.

      This philosophy has helped me with my educational journey, because I have always followed this outline when I first enrolled with Navajo Technical University back in the Fall of 2015.