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All three of the readings showed both sides of how important or “unimportant” for a personal relevant, retaining, and engaging education for students everywhere. In Ladson-Billings, “But That’s Just Good Teaching! The Case of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy”, she led a study where she examined how prepared or strong teachers acted in their classroom. Throughout herContinue reading “02/13 blog reflection”

To be honest, I haven’t really dove deep into the technology ages. I am only on the Bronze age, so I do not even know what the other ones are about. It does broaden my imagination but I wish there were different historical perspectives and/or lands. The color pallet is also a bit bland forContinue reading “02/06 (tech ages and continent map)”

I believe that an educational redesign of this game is that it needs more narratives than just the western European POV. I love how this game gives a historic perspective and does a good job at representing the European historic ways of “doing” but it is a bit narrow minded. If it gave a widerContinue reading “02/04 FoE (ed redesign and currencies)”

Although I am still getting used to this game, I can already see some of the educational opportunities it offers. It helps one to see growth and understanding that growth takes time and work. Here we are building civilizations, which indeed take work, but the message is that any type of building/growth does not happenContinue reading “01/30 FoE (ed and devices)”

I haven’t really dove too deep into the different avatars get. Still getting used to the game and figuring out how to use it and where everything is. I have noticed the many different ethnicities they offer for the avatars which I thought was awesome. Although there are many ethnicities, the white man still overContinue reading “01/28 FoE (avatars and GUI)”

This episode of NPR’s TED Radio Hour was focused on Manipulation, hence the title. No really,  this whole episode was based off of what manipulation that the media and technology does to us as human beings. Each of these speakers offered their opinions on how they think the social media and tech industries have changedContinue reading “02/06 blog reflection”

username: natnoel name of city: winter’s coming name of world: cirgard I am a bit lost in what this game is and what it does or even its purpose because I have been absent due to a medical emergency. Hoping to meet with the TA or Professor to get some clarification soon! 🙂 The setContinue reading “01/23: FoE set up”

In “How Disney Magic and the Corporate Media Shape Youth Identity in the Digital Age” by Giroux, the author discusses that children spend way too much of their day watching videos and/or television that exposes them to the consumer lifestyle. The media that Disney is promoting is specifically geared to catch the eyes of children;Continue reading “02/04 blog reflection”

In the article, Wearing, Thinking, and Moving: Testing the Feasibility of Fitness Tracking with Urban Youth, it focuses mainly on how underfunded/under resourced communities are the ones who face and experience the most health problems. The reason being that these urban communities lack resources and funding. The researchers provided Fitbit bracelets to underprivileged students toContinue reading “01/30 blog reflection”

In the article, “Critical Media Literacy is Not An Option” by Kellner and Share, both authors emphasize the dire need for change within literacy education and how to incorporate it in a more inclusive way. They talk about how we must introduce critical media and allow for students to be creative which can allow forContinue reading “01/28 blog reflection”