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Resources At No Cost- Final Project

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  Title - Providing Resources at No cost My presentation will be following Simon Sinek’s, “The Golden Circle” approach by first addressing my why, preceding with the how, and finalizing with the what. My own experience of becoming a bilingual speaker is what drives my educational “why.” Living in a new country presents new beginnings and also its challenges. Twenty-five years ago my parents made the decision to use the very little they had to immigrate to this nation. They did it to give me and my siblings a better future. I share these parts of my history because they have been my motivation to overcome all challenges and stereotypes during my public schooling. For example, I witnessed teachers not giving me the opportunity to try things because they already had it in their mind that just because I lived in a low-income neighborhood I did not have it in me to perform at their standards. Through middle and high school, I was always placed in English as a second language classes bec...
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Disney's Moana

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(NOTES) Before reading Christensen’s “Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us,” I had some understanding of the negative connotations Disney movies portrayed against people of color and women and how it glorified white men. That being said, I had been watching Disney movies with a critical lens. One thing that I did enjoy about Christensen’s article was the fact that she encouraged students to do more than just criticizing the roles being portrayed in Disney movies. In her words, “Turning off the cartoons doesn’t stop the sexism and racism” (p. 183). Reading the roles her students took to stop others from participating from watching Disney movies was inspiring. However, Disney movies have created generations of “secret education” with misleading personifications of people of color and women. Disney has played a major role in popular culture and they should always be seen with a critical lens.  Knowing of the frameworks Disney uses with people of color and women, it was a relief to not ha...
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The Truth About Helen Keller

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The article was written by Ruth Shagoury, “The Truth About Helen Keller” stood out to me because there are many times we all fall to read books with the lense of vagueness and simple representations of the biography of many important people that lived their life to fight against the status quo. To begin, I consider myself a life learner and this was a great opportunity for me to learn the real-life story of Helen Keller. The main purpose of the article can be summarized in one simple quote in the article, “Like other people with disabilities, Helen Keller deserves to be known for herself and not defined by her blindness or her deafness” (p. 96). Similar to the articles found in Part 2, “Politics, Violence, and Sanitized History”, teachers and students must know the real-life story and not the washed down version.  Most children's books about Helen Keller focus on her childhood years and rarely past her teenage years. It is a shame most of the books only focus on the “American- ‘can...
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Liveworksheets-Tutorial 📲

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  Want to turn your PDFs, JPGs, or PNGs into interactive activities? Here is a tutorial I put together on how you can use a pdf creating two different types of interactive activities that could be used with your students. Liveworksheets is a platform in which teachers can use create a pdf, jpg, or png and turn it into an interactive worksheet. There are many interactive activities you can do with Liveworksheets and today I have showed you only two, DRAG and DROP and FILL in the BLANK.  Remember Create an account if you want to create your own content Upload your pdf, jpg, or png Use the plus sign (+) to make boxes Write in the commands for the type of activity you want Check your work Publish it Share it Here is a link to a video that highlights all the things you can do with Liveworksheets.   
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Project-Brainstorm

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  My narrative will begin by explaining who I am:  Prior to the beginning of this course, I only thought of two concepts of the three discussed the entire two weeks. Education and Youth were the two and although I had been implementing technology in my lessons I had very little concept of the power it holds. Before we move forward, I would like to give a small summary of my relationship with technology. The first time I ever had a computer was in the early 200’s. My parents had saved up money and decided to buy me and my siblings a computer. It was a big deal! The computer in the living room was very similar to Sugata Mitra’s experiment of putting a “hole on the wall” which was a computer for kids of the slums to learn from. It was a machine that no one in my family knew how to use, but it was something that caught my attention and led me to become what Scott Noon would describe in his 4-tier “Model of Teacher Training in Technology” a technocrat at the age of 13. I can vividl...
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Whole On the Wall 🖥

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  Sugata Mitra’s, “Build a School in the Cloud” was very inspirational in many ways. His experiments of putting computers or as he called them “whole in the walls” for children to see, feel, touch, read, and observe was genius on so many levels. Mitra gives us some historical context and that reminds me that humans have the fundamental learning gene, we all have it! His experiments touch on Sir Ken Robinson’s “curiosity and creativity” as two forces that lead to better learning. It also connects to Michael Wesch’s concept of learning being a fundamental human trait.  My role as an educator with young people in an online environment is similar to Danah Boyd’s central point of digital literacy between a student and a teacher, we can both learn together. With the vast amounts of technological tools out there, there are many opportunities to experiment. As mentioned before, with experimentation comes curiosity and creativity and when you have both in place you have learning happe...
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iEducation, iMedia, iYouth

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Technology is playing an integral part in the history of humanity. Sherry Turkle's TED talk “Connected, but Alone?” speaks of the psychological changes technology is causing on humans. No matter the age, more and more people are getting “plugging-in” and according to Turkle, it is “changing who we are”. Technology seems to be replacing human-to-human conversations.  Michael Wesch writes in his article “Anti-teaching: Confronting the Crisis of Significance” how teaching needs to be reshaped and restructured. He calls his teaching “anti-teaching,” which is an approach that is the polar opposite of what your traditional teaching model is. With the use of questions, he asks his students to think of the significance they have in shaping the future. Such a question gives students a sense of significance along with the implementation of students doing their own research and doing collaborative work to find the answers to the history of humanity and where it is leading. Just how are these...
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