Firstly, I want to start by talking about the format I chose to use to do my multimedia reflection on the Technologist Module because it was very frustrating, and I need to get it off my chest. I decided to do a video because it seemed to me that it would be straight forward, and it shouldn’t be too hard to find a software that will give me what I want. Four programs later and I managed to get as close as I could to what I envisioned, with a huge watermark across my video to not have to pay for the program… but let’s not talk about that… Go figure, the only good program is a freemium platform! It also took me several takes for every clip that I have. Having recently had my wisdom teeth removed and losing sensation in half my tongue, as a result of the surgery, it’s hard to properly articulate words. To add onto that, I really didn’t know what to say, so that affected how many takes I had to do. Thankfully we don’t have any more multimedia reflections to do, but I would not do a video again. It was definitely more of a headache than anticipated.
That brings us to a point I mentioned in my video that I want to further talk about now that I’ve struggled to create my video. That point is the one I made about the lengthy process prototyping might be. I felt this while creating my video. It was an extremely lengthy process, and I didn’t even have to continue to change it to accommodate learners. I must say, I don’t have a great deal of digital literacy, as I had mentioned in my first blackboard post, but I do feel I have enough to work my way around certain programs, it just takes me a little longer because I have to research how to achieve certain aspects. I believe it would be absolutely exhausting attempting to continuously work on the prototype to make it perfect, only to have to work on it again with another group of learners. I do realize that even without using technology, as mentioned in my video, that differentiated instruction is important, and that you should constantly be reflecting on your lessons and updating them; however, the incorporation of technology in this process would make it very difficult. And as I mentioned a few times, you have to find the right technology for your classroom for it to work and be appropriate and accommodating.
I do believe that incorporating technology in the classroom is very important to keep students engaged and in the future I will try my best to ensure that I follow the design-thinking, in more than just the incorporation of technology in the classroom, since it’s a good approach to follow for every aspect of teaching.