Jesse Miller 

  • What did you find most interesting?
    • Talk made us a bit anxious about the potential lack of control of what goes on online. Sometimes you don’t have control over what other people post and it’s easy for things to be taken out of context.
    • Lots of teachers do post pictures of their students online on their social media – important to reflect on what the purpose of this is… your students’ and their family’s privacy takes precedence over your desire to share your life online.
  • What ideas did you find the most challenging?
    • Implications of technology use
      • Facial recognition can be used in ways we are unaware of and don’t support. Important to keep this in mind when taking photos of ourselves and others and putting them online.
      • Google maps timeline: shows you where you’ve been for as long as it’s been enabled.
  • Did you take any actions as a result of the talk?
    • I made my Instagram private and tried to look through any photos on Facebook, Instagram etc. that could look bad out of context or contained content I wouldn’t want to discuss with my students or their families.

PSII 

  • Thoughts and what we noticed
    • What about when students aren’t interested in a particular topic, how do they go about “nudging” students, how organised are they in knowing which students are where?
      • Student experience: hadn’t completed English 12 by his grade 12 year, but had finished everything else because his natural inquiries led him everywhere else.
    • Our cohort generally had a positive experience when visiting, but a secondary ed program at UBC didn’t enjoy learning about inquiry-based schools as much.
      • Could have something to do with what education programs are teaching – a lot of our classes still require grades, but there is a general message that we should be moving away from prescribed learning, letter grades and percentages.

Negotiate and Explore Trello 

  • In order to make Trello useful, you need to use it actively and not as an after thought.
  • Download app so it’s easier to add tasks on the go when you think of them.