I am going to go off the record with my response before answering the questions for this forum because I feel it was this moment that I understood CITE more tangible and what these artifacts and experiences could look like! This was my ‘aha’ moment if you will, I was so fascinated with the introductory video by Professor Tom Liam Lynch, I thi…[Read more]

At first glance and review, I felt the visual resource for teacher candidates was a very welcoming and approachable aid. And while reading, I appreciated the flow and organization of thought throughout which made the resource digestible. I also liked the different perspectives on experiences that were presented which can resonate with many…[Read more]

One thing I really value about the equity approach being taken in CITE and this experience as a whole, is that it is one that is unafraid to explore certain realities/topics in experience in the world of tech. As someone who graduated college in the last decade and has topics of equity around women in STEM/Tech and other intersectional ways in…[Read more]

I appreciated this approach to an activity we engaged with to support our students with their own.

It was interesting to see how ideas came to me as well as I reviewed my colleagues but also thought of connections to things we are using as well. Check mine out!

The rationale cards I kept until the very end are the following:

#20 – … it will help teacher candidates promote systems thinking – the ability to understand the dynamics of and how to intervene in complex systems that are ubiquitous in our world.

#34 – … it will help teachers to meet the needs of all learners, and build on learners’ diver…[Read more]

Greetings all – you may know me as Christopher Aviles but my preferred names are either “Christie” or “Chris” and my pronouns are they/them. Full-time, I am a PreK teacher at a charter school in East Harlem, and am part-time lecturing at BMCC and Hunter College.

When it comes to the platforms, I have used Padlet for an art class I took during the…[Read more]