Week #3 Reflection

Hi Digital Learners,

Are you starting to feel more comfortable navigating the web? I certainly am :) I finally feel relaxed and content adding slides and playing around with Powtoon. This week we watched a TedTalk video by Sugata Mitra that educated us about the child-driven education and brought us around the world to see different kids self-supervised access to the web and showed results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching. We also watched a insightful and inspiring video on assessment by Mr.D.

Today in class we were given the opportunity to do some research regarding out genius hour question. Much of my research is very psychology based since it has to do with how our minds work! With today research, I was able to find out that Elizabeth Loftus, has identified four major reasons why people forget. They are: retrieval failure, interferences, failure to store and motivated forgetting. I still have a lot of research to do within the next coming weeks so stay tuned!

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Copyright

Hello Again Fellow Digital Learners,

I want to share with you what I learned in todays session regarding the concept of copyright. According to the Candice (2013) article, basic copyright law means that all rights are reserved. It is important to teach students that copying, distributing, performing, displaying or the adapting of digital media found online is not allowed. If we take any information from the internet we must cite to give proper credit to the original publisher.

As a future educator, I want to allow my students to create, revise and generate media. I think it is a fantastic way to encourage deeper learning and media literacy. But we as teachers need to focus on the one issue that complicates digital freedom of expression, which is the notion surrounding copyright law. It is critical that teenagers and kids have a basic understanding of what’s legal and ethical while playing with other people’s intellectual opinions. In my future classroom, I want to promote digital learning. With copyright being a serious topic I want to educate my students and support and guide their learning when understanding all the necessary aspects of copyright.

(2011, April 8th). The Vision Therapy Centre. All rights reserved (online image) retrieved from: http://www.thevisiontherapycenter.com/discovering-vision-therapy

 J.Higham (2015, Sept 15th). Nourishing Obscurity. All rights reserved (online image) retrieved from: http://www.nourishingobscurity.com/2015/09/

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Hi Everyone!

I am beyond excited to be a teacher candidate in the 21st century. It is quite evident and exciting to think that technology will soon shape our education.

As a teacher candidate I think it is extremely important for student to be able to share their passions and have time to use their imaginations. Today we learned that teachers give students a time during the day where they can explore their own passions. Personally, I think this is a great educational tool because it is a place and time where students want to participate and express their ideas. As a 21st century teacher I want my classroom to be a place where students want to come and learn. Genius hour is great addition to students' daily routine that promotes engagement, creativity and imagination. Genius hour is a great way to allow students to drive their own personalized instruction.

GENIUS HOUR- where passion comes alive!