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Hi Everyone,

I can’t find the roses or thorn but I’ll report that my ASYN students seem nonchalant about their upcoming Padlet assignment to prepare for their teaching demos…

Hi,

I’m Elise Langan in the Education Dept. @ BCC. I’m not the most tech savvy person (fortunately, I have friends who are) but hope to become familiar with (among others) Padlet since I think it could be very useful in my classes.

I thought there were a lot of interesting and useful notions about how teacher candidates feel empowered and disempowered by technology.

I was struck by how one teacher learned to use Scratch so she could teach her students to use it. I will need to do a video to instruct my students on how to use Padlet after I learn its intricacies which will…[Read more]

In reading through the CS4 Imitative, I was glad to see that Gloria Ladsen-Billings was cited since I have long been an admirer of her work on Culturally Relevant Pedagogy.

I was struck by the emphasis on the “4I’s” which help teachers understand and develop strategies to mitigate social oppression and disadvantage; however, I think this could be…[Read more]

I think creating an artifact using Padlet would be very useful for my EDU 40 students since it lends itself to k-12 implementation. I’m thinking about how I can create a Padlet prototype based on a required lesson plan and teaching demo for fall, 2023. Elise Langan

Hello,

The cards that I kept were: 5, 18, 22, 31, 40 for many of the reasons that my colleague, Dr. Powers, has articulated. The foremost reason is closing the “digital divide” since many of our students @ BCC don’t have sufficient access and resources to close the gap.

I feel strongly that we need to train pre-service teachers in digital…[Read more]