Category: Weekly reflections

Today in class we talked in depth about privacy through FOIPPA which stands for Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. I think this made me reflect on my future practice as a teacher and how important it is preserve my students personal privacy. I really appreciated being introduced to many different resources such as Openverse, Unsplash, Pexels, Flaticon, and OER Commons. When exploring the Pexels resource, as a geologist, I could not help myself to search geology related photos. I found this incredible photo taken by Soran Ali of a malachite rich stockwork that is cross-cutting what looks like either quartz or calcite veins and a fine grained dark colored peridotite with olivine. I see that this reliable photo bank resource will be very useful for making lesson plans of all sorts and during activities with my students.

Today we had our first “Technology and Innovation in Education” which is exciting because times are changing and we are in the thrust of Artificial Intelligence. I am really looking forward to acquiring a wide range of reliable resources that I will be able to fallback on during practicum and then once I am done my teaching degree. I found it interesting that we have the chance to create a website on which we can explore a a free inquiry project. I would not say that I gravitate towards technology as a person, I tend to prefer pen and paper, hands on learning, learning in the outdoors, learning through experiences etc. I hope that this class opens my eyes to the potential positives of technology use in the classroom and I become more comfortable with technology overall.