Over the last week I was able to get my website up and running and we had a great class learning about Most Likely to Succeed, FIPPA and Open Education.
The film, Most Likely to Succeed was super interesting to me. What I loved most about it was the ability to create a great sense of belonging for these students and to watch them succeed and feel a sense of accomplishment at school was something I think we all strive for as educators. It really got me thinking…is our current education system allowing our students to thrive? Are they happy? Do they feel successful at the end of the day, month, year? And as educators, are we preparing them for the future that lays ahead? I realize that there may be no perfect answers to these questions and I also realize that not all learners would thrive in an inquiry based education system but I can’t help but feel it may be better then what they are doing now.
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I do believe that we are slowly heading in the right direction and that our education system is slowly changing and I can only hope that as a teacher candidate myself, that I can become part of the solution (not the problem)!
In speaking about FIPPA this week, learning my role as an individual and as an educator was very interesting. The world of technology including information sharing, images, videos and AI are blowing up quicker than I can keep up. This was a great overview and a reminder for me about how to progress responsibly. I also think this is a great time for educators to be constantly teaching and reminding our students about privacy, information and how to protect themselves within the use of technology and social media as well.
Photo by Sergey Zolkin on Unsplash
Lastly, discussing Open Education for me this week was great!! I felt way more supported coming out of class knowing about more resources I could access and feeling more confident in how to use images and link in material into my website or my future classroom properly. I had never heard of Pexels and Unsplash before. After checking these out, I’m not sure I will ever use a random Google image again. The quality was great and now knowing these are sharable images and I can give thanks back to the creator is great. I also did a quick check of the OER Commons for curriculum materials and I’m excited to go back and take a deeper look into that resource. I can see it being extremely useful during practicum.