While listening to Hybrid Pod, Ep, 10 – Questioning Learning (see link to podcast here) with Janine DeBaise, I was seeing clear images in my head of things like robots, cookie cutters and fire as I was taking in what she had to say in regard to her style of responsive teaching and her thoughts on standardization. I incorporated key thoughts that I took from her discussion into my Piktochart, which you can find below. Overall, I agree with Janine that education should move towards a less standardized approach to teaching and learning to ultimately embrace individuality and allow for the the accommodation of the individual learning needs of our students. Some may argue that we have become robotic with our teaching style and this may be hindering the learning experience for students.
I decided to use Piktochart to make a poster reflecting her ideologies presented in the podcast. Since I already had a decent picture in my head of how I wanted my digital image to turn out, I decided to refrain from using any pre-set layouts and started with a blank canvas. I just realized as I’m writing this that that concept kind of ties into the other reading, Digital Ghosts in the Modern Classroom, associated with this multimedia reflection. Anyway, In the end I was really pleased I didn’t use any ‘ready to go’ layouts as I don’t think any of them would have accommodated the image I had in mind. I felt a real sense of achievement once I was finished and was pleasantly surprised that what I was picturing in my head actually came to technological life!
I found Piktochart super user friendly, and I really enjoyed scrolling through the seemingly endless choices of graphics available to incorporate into my design. Moving around text-boxes and images on my poster was incredibly easy (unlike trying to move anything around in word without ruining the format of your entire document). I would absolutely recommend Piktochart to everyone and encourage that you give it a try for one of your future reflections!
I hope you enjoy my robot poster, which I wouldn’t have been able to create without the help of the behind the scenes robots from Piktochart!
-Natalie Gagne
https://create.piktochart.com/output/32943865-by-standardized-did-you-mean-robotic
