My assignment is on the article “Digital Ghosts in the Modern Classroom” by Ashley Hinck. With that in mind, I presented my multimedia reflection in the format of a Twitter essay due to the fact that I have little experience with the platform and I wish to be able to increase my knowledge on it. The reason for this primarily is that I feel it might be a good way in the future to connect with fellow people in the education field.
Interestingly enough I chose to do this article over the podcast because I was rather taken aback by the central message of it that these “create your own website” websites are not that creative and I had to dig deeper. Upon reading the article a few times I came to agree with Hinck due in part to her compelling arguments, and in part to my own experiences in the classroom as a student. To be specific. within my robotics class in high school we were taught how to do things such as both physically build the robot, and write the program for it. Although the building aspect required little trial and error, the digital aspect of it seemed more error than trial. This however was not a bad aspect of the class as it showed us that it is okay to fail, because through failure one can learn from their mistakes and then take that knowledge on to the next try at it. After reading Hink’s article, I do not believe that the same sort of experience and knowledge could have been gained without this sort of learning through failure. I honestly believe that no matter the discipline that is being taught, the ideas presented in the article such as there not being a necessarily “right” answer and that failure can be good if something can come out of it, are paramount in developing the creative minds of students.
