My Journey Has Ended… At Least This Part of It

The major project component of EC&I 832 that I chose was Option 2: Personal Journey into Media. Of the different avenues to travel for this assignment, this particular option seemed to be the most relatable for me. Gaining a solid understanding of the digital world and of the apps and programs that our students use regularly is something that I consider and undervalued element of digital citizenship and media literacy. What are the students (including my own children in the…

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THE Summary of Learning

CHALLENGE: Comb over three months, get it down to as close to 5 minutes as possible Not necessarily an easy task. I know that I did not do justice to all of the content, presenters, Dr. Couros, and the great work of all of my EC&I 832 classmates. In no particular order, here are some aspects of this activity that I really enjoyed: review of the content – so many interesting and important things to consider; readjusting my lens –…

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Permission Does Not Mean Obligation

I would like to start by giving credit to Dr. Paul Clarke for the title. Not that EDL 819 hasn’t stuck with me, but te phrase that he used has been applicable so many times since hearing it. What comes to mind when you think of ethics? For me, the first choice is the culminating event of Billy Madison’s academic decathlon where he must outperform is nemesis Eric for control of Madison Hotels. Obviously, and not just in part to…

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TikTok. Who’s there? Me. Kind of.

Getting into TikTok has been a slow moving process. I cannot stick a pin in the exact reason of my hesitancy towards the app, but I have some ideas… preconceived thought that TikTok is for young people; another excuse to be engaged with my phone – I am not actually looking for more reasons; not really interested in creating content, which limits the function of the app; the lack of digital literacy instruction in the classroom (so far) making me…

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How do you know so much? Easy. I’m a teacher and a dad.

Thinking back ten years, I had taken the torch of my father and his father. I was a proud third-generation watcher of the news at supper! I would scan the newspapers while waiting in line at the grocery store. News talk radio was thumping in my car, no matter how far away my destination was. That was then, this is now. The early morning news is the last chance that I will have over the next fifteen hours to where…

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