Hello folks, for this week’s multimedia assignment I chose to review Ashley Hinck’s article “Digital Ghosts in the Modern Classroom.” The original article can be find here: http://hybridpedagogy.org/digital-ghosts-modern-classroom/
https://create.piktochart.com/output/33034323-digital-ghosts-critique
Hinck’s article covered a unique subject, the influence of template based software on education. Her stance led me to create an infographic, which I used to break down her argument into small statements and then reflect or respond accordingly. Overall, I found her article fascinating but limited to her field of study in post-secondary. In my opinion, the basis for her argument assumes that students are capable of creating digital content without any templates, yet this is impractical for a non-digital media based course. This is extremely limiting in a K-12 environment, where students may encounter issues using the simpler templates. In my own experience using Piktochart, a simple template platform according to Hinck, I encountered a major issue resulting in the link to my artifact not being usable. Similarly, various colleagues of mine struggled uploading images to WordPress with the proper resolution.
Adam Drouillard