I chose to read “Digital Ghosts in the Modern Classroom” by Ashley Hinck and decided to use Twitter for my reflection. I thought Twitter would offer a nice template (character limit) while allowing for some freedom of creativity (the tweets themselves, GIFS, images, etc).
While going through the article it allowed me to reflect on many past projects between the faculty of education, faculty of human kinetics, high school and elementary school which were very template oriented focused mainly on the drag and drop aspect as mentioned in the article.
There are so many useful tools and resources on the world wide web. And there are many platforms which allow for open-ended learning and exploration, but the expectations and assumptions of templates linger in the classroom. These template platforms set the tone for another way that students “try to get the right answers”. But the question is, are the students learning anything from these platforms? The notion that students find trial and error as a failure is baffling to me, I think that students have such a fear of failure that they look for the simple, straight shot answer. Using shortcut template platforms resonate with today’s society of getting to the destination as quick and as easy as possible – students often use these platforms as a scapegoat to try and please their teachers by doing what they think their teacher is expecting and wants.
Below are some screenshots from my Twitter thread, and the link to my thread is right here –> https://twitter.com/guchimane1/status/1046273261972201472
