I feel that this is true. In my experience, I noticed most of the educators and parents of wealthier white students that I grew up with focused on the imaginative play and importance of video games and television as a sense of expanding their creativity. However, parents and educators of children of color that I grew up and volunteered with were focused on their futures, the attention during class, and their academic scores. I feel this could be largely due to the high expectations society places on children of color to perform at exceeding rates.

I remember watching a video that emphasizes the importance of accessibility in everyday life. For example, ramps are beneficial for not just the physically disabled, but also for pedestrians on bicycles, families with strollers, or in order to protect people from tripping. accessibility is a win for everyone, not just one set group of people. I feel that this applies to virtual technology as well.

I feel that this is the most successful way of evaluating students. By allowing them to choose a method of evaluation based upon their comfort, interests, and strengths, students are more likely to perform better and with more confidence. I personally wish that I had this while growing up because I was always forced to present a verbal presentation in front of the class despite experiencing extreme social anxiety. I feel that If this model could allow for certain students that need more disability services or accessibilities to have a more fair method of evaluation.

I personally do not like this method of learning because I feel that it taught me during my education to "make the external stimulus stop". For example, during a Kahoot game, I would quickly scan the room before answering in order to make sure I choose the most popular answer in order to prevent me from a glowing red screen within the classroom.

"If you do not pay for the product then you are the product"

This personally feels very sketchy to me. When is it "no longer necessary?" and when is their information needed for a time period after the child is not longer a user?

I feel that this has to do with student's "Fear of Missing Out" that explicitly occurs throughout childhood and early adulthood. We often do not understand the legal jargon within terms or service as a young individual and therefore want to quickly join the platform or application before they miss out socially on more.

I had a classmate in my k-12 education who was color-blind. When we had papers with multi-color fonts or images, he was always given a color-sensitive copy on paper of a different color, or marked in the corner. This was he was able to have some more accessibility

I feel that this applies to any marginalized community. Whether it be people of color, or people with different abilities, when multiple people of multiple backgrounds come together, we are gifted with the ability to understand a different culture and background, which allows us to all win.

I remember during my junior year of high school, I had a teacher who assigned a project on one of these free trial websites. She gave us 2 weeks to do the assignment, but the free trial expired just in time for our presentations. She did not think the plan through thoroughly and therefore everyone in the class had wasted 2 weeks on a project that would never be graded.

During my Sophomore year of High School, my grade used TinkerCad to 3-D print designs. It was a good concept, but I feel that we lacked enough time to understand and be taught how to use the website in our 40-minute classes. I feel that ease of use also comes with time to learn the platform.

I feel that as a student there is a lot of intimidation surrounding joining and creating a PLN. As an individual, I feel that this next step will bring a lot of different perspectives that I had not thought of to the table and I am excited to participate