Weekly Reflections

For week 8, we had a short group presentation to give an overview of our POD assignments. For my group we chose to focus on the impact of social media on transgender students. We felt that this isn’t something that is talked about enough and is very important due to recent events in Tumbler Ridge….

For week 6 we had to choose two online seminars to watch. The second seminar I watched was Live IT! Bilingual Place-based Learning K-7. The Live It earth website is such a cool resource for teachers to use with their students. It has a ton of videos on places, animals and plants from all over…

In week 5 we had a guest speaker from SD62, Ana Galac, who talked to us about the different technologies that they have to support their students and how they handle AI in their schools. The most basic thing was how teachers all get a district email. This is the email you must use when…

This week we went to the coolest high school I’ve ever been to! Pacific School of Innovation & Inquiry lets the student take learning into their own hands. They decide what they want to learn and how in depth. They choose a topic they want to learn about and while researching, would go to specific…

Week two focused on AI and we also got a look at a tool called padlet. Ai I really appreciated that we are discussing AI in schools and how to use it responsibly. I, like most of my class, are very worried about what AI is and will do in the future, but I also…

The first week of our tech class was mostly an overview of the course with some great tips on privacy and anonymity. One of the main ways was through the use of bitmoji’s or other animated versions of ourselves. I quite enjoyed the process of making a new bitmoji as it has been a few…