Throughout this course I was able to interact with my fellow peers online in more ways than one. Whether it be through discord, twitter, during our zoom calls, or through blog posts! To show my learnings from this semester I will post below my personal learning summary as well as link it here (just in case!) Digital CommunityI think that since we went online for schooling, and still continue to offer online courses EDTC 300 has become more relevant for everyone than ever! With the state of the pandemic in recent years and still having to worry about new strains of Covid-19 arising, I was and am still able to experience building a digital community. I haven’t met many of my classmates or mentors in person yet, but with various online platforms such as zoom, blogging, instagram, twitter and even URCourses, I have been able to connect with new friends, peers, and professors over the last 3 years in university! Learning virtually for so long can and will take a toll on the mental health of students and educators, which made social media and online communities such as the ones listed above a vital resource to everyone in recent years. I have learned about so many tech resources that I can use to teach students and build a digital community in my future classrooms. Social MediaSome apps I looked to throughout my university career and my time learning online were twitter, instagram and TikTok. I found so many friends on instagram, partially cause I would look up their names that I found on our class zoom calls and partially because they showed up in "people I may know" as they were already following my friends.
EDTC 300 allowed me to meet new friends who were also in education as well as some in-service teachers! We connected, shared, and helped each other online. Whether we shared our blog posts from class, or cool new lesson plan ideas, or even our successes and failures in the classroom, we connected with people, teachers, all over the world. TikTok is also full of young teachers sharing their classroom management ideas, their lesson ideas, or what their students did in class that day. Anything under the sun can be shared for others to see, and that's the most amazing part!
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AuthorHello! My name is Halle, and I am a third year B. ED student at the University of Regina! I am focusing my studies on teaching Pre-K to Grade 5 students while learning how to create a positive and safe classroom for all. |