The idea that the pandemic was scary to just about everyone.  No one knew what to do.  All we knew was that we had to stay home.  It is never fun when you are stuck in the house.  Introverts through the pandemic, however, may have had an inherently different take on this.  They were in their element.  This is something that I can relate to a bit myself.  Sometimes, on the outside, I may seem as a fairly extroverted person, […]

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In this new world that we are living in, we are evolving and finding new ways for us to do things.  WIth this wave of online instruction in classrooms at all levels, we are seeing an emergence in all new types of technology.  Some of it is very useful and important to the classroom setting.  Other forms of technology leave some room for questions.  Specifically, I question the need and importance of proctoring technology in the context of online schooling.  […]

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I am going to be honest, I am very much looking forward to this week’s class to discuss the “Catching our Breath” reading, because I just did not understand it all that much.  I get that we are talking about race, but adding in the technology angle muddied things a little bit for me.   Just to briefly point out some things that stuck out to me, is this notion of technology being a metaphor for race.  It is just another […]

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The content for this week was interesting on so many different levels.  First, I want to touch on the TED talk regarding algorithms and Bias.  Dr. Zamora, Alan and Ryan would be the only ones to remember this, but I actually presented on this topic last year in this class.  I thoroughly enjoyed it because of all of the different rabbit holes, so to speak, that it allows us to go down.  The reason why this is so important is […]

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This week I am presenting the “On Being” podcast hosted by Krista Tippett.  Her guest in this particular episode was Danah Boyd, with the tagline “The internet of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”  I am so glad that I chose to present this work because I feel like there is so much that can be done with it.  I think because they covered so much, there are so many insightful discussions that we can have that I envision […]

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This reading was a great way for us to begin our journey. It, in my opinion, was able to tackle some major concepts early and I know we are going to do a much deeper dive off of this and go on some welcome tangents in order for us to see exactly how these things effect us today, especially in the connected world we live in. The gap between carers and non carers was something that I never explicitly thought […]

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