Week 3 Blog Reflection: Ipad Educators

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I read through the blog post called FEATURE: Don’t You Forget About Me, where fellow educators act as part of a character of the breakfast club and react to what technology they may have used if technology would have been used in the movie. The writer brings up many good points. All the characters in the movie are different just as our students will be different when they enter our classroom. As educators we should give them choices to produce projects that enlighten their point of views and creativity. For example, Brian, the brain would have started his own blog to express himself. Claire being the popular one would have had the Secret Diary app to express her daily activities and emptions with hashtags and pictures to place in her diary. Bender would have probably expressed himself through garageband with music or lyrics. The point is each student is different. As the blogger quotes Chris Lehmann, “If you assign a project and get back 30 of the exact same thing, then that’s a recipe not a project.” Educators must take a moment or two to get to know their student and understand technology to receive various forms of expression and creativity that can be channeled educationally.

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