This is very interesting, but I hesitate to say it's a method schools should take up because I really believe lectures should be done within class time and free time should be real free time. I think it's counterproductive to take some of the school experience and make learners do it at home and then still have to go to school, it seems like double the work.

I think this is a great plan of action for schools. I never experienced activities that promoted individual learning while I was growing up. The instruction was directed at the entire class as a whole, so that all students were receiving the same instruction. I think if we treat all children as the same the learning environment will not be as productive, because no two students are the same.

This reminds me of how in school, I would never want to read books that were assigned and I was essentially being forced to read. When we were given the option to choose a book to read, I would read it all the way through and enjoy it. Autonomy is essential in fostering a comfortable learning environment.

I think this is great. All companies and schools should add time in the week for intrinsically motivating projects. Creativity is an incredibly powerful tool and expressing yourself in your work results in the best work you can do. If you only do work that doesn't inspire you, you will not feel fulfilled.

I agree that there is a critical need to foster creative thinking in today's students. I don't think this happens enough though. As I've seen from lot of other material in this course, the arts are still the first to go if schools lack budget. School is still largely analytical and numerical instead of creative.

I agree that technology can enhance planning and support teaching. I do think technology can impact assessment in a negative way if not done correctly though. I have had experiences where technology was used for assessment and the software was not very good and progress was not saved. This was very frustrating but if these problems are fixed, then it's okay.

This is a very important point. Oftentimes people will forget to include everyone and make things accessible. TikTok has now added a feature where instead of having to manually implement closed captioning of what you're saying, it will automatically do it for you immediately, so every video possible has a transcribed version of what is being said. While it is not always accurate, I think it is a step in the right direction.

I agree that sometimes visuals can be more memorable than words. Sometimes seeing something can impact you more than having to read it, and there is much more freedom to express your point when you're displaying it rather than writing it. It is easier to appeal to emotion with something you can see, For example, the sick and abused animals advertisement we watched in class.

In my communications class, we actually discussed statistics similar to this. Everyone expected young people and teenagers to have the highest screen time out of all of the demographics, but elderly people were actually the highest. This is because they may be retired while younger people go to work and school, so elderly people have more free time to consume media.

This made me think of what we usually gather data through, and I was thinking sight, as in reading. But listening is just as important. If someone in your group has something to share, we should all listen, as everyone has helpful insights that will assist us in collaborating.

In group work, I think thinking independently is still very important. You're not truly collaborating if you're letting someone else do the work. It should be equally distributed between all parties of the group. Thinking independently also ensures that you will actually learn and grow and challenge yourself.

I agree. Just because you're talking to someone doesn't necessarily mean you're collaborating. During online learning, I think it is hard to collaborate truly. Nothing compares to actually sitting next to someone and working with them.

I think this is the problem with schools today. Performance is needed in the absence of complete understanding. I feel like this is sometimes why people cheat on tests. Getting a bad grade is worse than not understanding the material. Instead of trying to understand it, because that doesn't matter, they cheat because they know they need to perform well. This prevents students from actually learning because they're so concerned about grades.

I agree that learning has a lot to do with interacting with the world. Everything is a learning experience and you really do learn something new everyday. I'm not sure I agree that learning is an increase in potential. I think we all have a lot of potential to begin with. Before knowledge, all you have is potential. I think learning is making your potential into skills.

I read online somewhere that humans were originally only supposed to live in small groups of 25 people or less, and that we are not built to handle the thousands of people we see on social media in a day. I do not know if the first part is accurate, but I believe we are no meant to see as much as we do. While we can interact much more than just face to face allows, we don't need to, and it may be too much. The amount of tragedy we witness everyday online certainly isn't healthy and I don't think our brains are supposed to handle all of that at once. So I agree that access to a larger society is definitely a double-edged sword.

This is an interesting point. Since technology has been such a a large part of my generation's lives, I have been informed about my digital footprint since I was 10 years old. We always were told that anything you post online can be seen by future employers or schools and that you should not post anything you wouldn't want your grandma to see. While we do try to stress the importance of technology and how it can be helpful in our everyday lives, it can of course still get us into trouble. The original purpose of social media is to share your personal life with others, not necessarily business matters.

Social media can be used in a variety of professional ways. Some apps even have business settings, where you can create pages for your business to promote it. In terms of using social media to stay informed about your career, I have seen multiple early childhood teachers use Pinterest to get ideas for activities for the children. Social media plays are large roll in teaching too.

I have witnessed this in school myself. One of the only things I remember from middle school science is how my teachers would show us amoeba sisters videos. They were YouTube videos explaining science concepts in understandable and fun ways, as the ones explaining the concepts were two animated amoeba girls. The fact that this is one of the things I remember most goes to show how powerful a learning tool technology is.

I remember from my time in high school when we had to shut down for covid, we were completely school free for about 4 weeks while the administration and teachers had to figure out how to move forward. One class I was in I actually had not completed a test yet and the teacher told me I could just let it slide because it would have been too difficult for me to have completed the test given our circumstances. It would have been easier in college with the use of moodle, but my high school had nothing in place for things like this, causing us to take a full break from learning.

This is a very interesting point. I have never heard of gamification. When we first started using technology in my schools, games were strictly off limits. Teachers believed they were distractions from learning, and if you were caught gaming, your device could be taken away. It's great that some schools were taking the positives of gaming and making their students more engaged and entertained.

This is still a problem today. In my education 101 class, we spoke about different philosophies when it comes to teaching and curriculum, but only a couple of them include the students thoughts on their own education. One of the philosophies is to keep things as they have always been and make no changes, which will never be beneficial for any student. I believe learning should be centered around the student because it is them who will be learning.

I feel like anytime a new piece of technology is introduced into society our first thoughts are that it will be harmful for children. My middle school implemented iPad's in 2012 and I used them until I graduated high school. Even since preschool I always had technology in the room. It is very interesting to think about how fast technology develops. In this study, people were reluctant to add TV's into school, and now TV's are rarely seen in classrooms because they are no longer needed.