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TASK 1
CINDY SAID: Hi Charmi! The use of the OSMO within classrooms honestly sounds like a great idea! I definitely agree with you about how the OSMO can stimulate students lateral thinking. It does certainly look like it would be quite entertaining to the classroom. Although it does sound like a great emerging technology to use in the classroom, have you thought about what could be a negative to using this in the classroom other than the cost factor such as classroom management or instructional issues with the students? I feel like it does seem pretty straight forward but I just wondered if you did have any ideas along with your review! Still loved your post!
CINDY WROTE: Hello! I loved you idea of using Illustrator for a math classroom! I personally have some experience with Photoshop and Illustrator and I personally never really thought about using the rulers, rotation tools and angles to make something that shows maths creatively. Really enjoyed your thoughts on this!
CINDY SAID: Hi Rebecca. Great to see your own personal experience in using the headset. It sounded like a great time. I really do like your point that it is important for the teacher to consider how exactly technologies fit into their KLA and the syllabus outcomes. That is definitely important to remember. Awesome post!
CINDY COMMENTED: Hi Angus. Wasn’t expecting a space related technology to be reviewed but I do really like the idea of using this piece of technology within the classroom. I can see how it will get the students engaged with their learning. I like your idea of having open-ended goals for the students to obtain using stimulation technology. Would be curious to know how you would use SpaceEngine within other disciplines other than science.
WEEK 3
CINDY COMMENTED: Hey Ben, I am quite pleasantly surprised by your creative take on SketchUp especially within an English classroom. I personally would have not thought about that myself, but your idea I could imagine would get so many kids engaged with the topic and bring to life another aspect of Shakespeare into the classroom. An overall great informative post about SketchUp though it would be great if there was some references to Design Thinking and how exactly Design Thinking in general is used within the Education system.
CINDY SAID: Hi Angus, Loved reading about your experience in Design Thinking especially in the little project of the watering system. Your visual cues are also quite cute and entertaining themselves. You mention some risks and success when it comes to the process of design activities, how would you as a teacher try and overcome these risks and what would you as a teacher, the role would be in order for your students to obtain success in these design activities? Overall, great post!
CINDY WROTE: Hi Alayna, it was great reading your perspective on how 3D printing can help foster creativity especially with the concepts of design thinking. Your little 3D quote by Berman et al. was a cute little touch. Something I would love to know maybe for future posts is possible examples of how you personally would wanna try and implement 3D printing or future technologies into your classroom in order to foster creativity. Other than that, great post!
WEEK 4
CINDY SAID: Hey Patrick. Great post about computational thinking. I really like how you broke down the different stages of computational thinking into a table and how to connected CT to different pedagogies. Really a great point you made which is something I will definitely consider when approaching CT within my own classrooms. You mentioned how tools such as Blockly could be used within the classroom but I would also like to know how you would use the Microbit within your classroom and your KLA. Keen to see your future posts!
CINDY WROTE: Hello Samara. I enjoyed reading your little blog post about CT and I think it is great that you mentioned the issues of implementing CT within the classroom. It is important for us to remember that as educators we still need to be providing guidance to the students. Great reference of Mishra & Yadav within your blog post. It would also be great to see how you would implement CT within your own KLA or classroom.
WEEK 5
CINDY COMMENTED: Hey Alayna! It was a great read to see all of your different experiences with AR apps and tools within the classroom. I really liked your own little demonstration of ZapWorks. It was very adorable. I would like to know, out of all of the AR tools that you mentioned, which one do you reckon is the most effective? And which one you would personally integrate into your future classrooms?
CINDY SAID: Hey there Patrick. What an interesting read on your perspective of AR. I loved seeing all of the different interactions that you had with AR tools and apps throughout your post. Something I would critique on is, how exactly would you use AR to help foster creativity within your students? The post you present is great with information and diagrams but I would like to know how you personally would try and use it.
CINDY SAID: Hello! I really loved reading about your comparison and experience using Geogebra AR. I think it was great that you really interacted with the tool and compared to other tools alike in order to present the best one. I also really liked your idea of trying to integrate Geogebra into a lesson that isn’t completely boring and make it more engaging with the students in order to promote divergent thinking. Great post!!
WEEK 6
CINDY COMMENTED: Hello Rebecca! Wow! Your table comparison on the Google Cardbox and the Oculus is a really great feature within your post! I actually really appreciated how you took the time to break both tools down and list out both the advantages and disadvantages. Well done! It was also great to see your own opinion on how VR would be used to help foster creativity within students.
CINDY WROTE: Hello Samara. I really enjoyed reading your blog post about your own personal experience with VR. I really liked your point about a possible introductory lesson for using CoSpaces. I agree with you that it is really important for teachers to be informed about technology especially something like CoSpaces that do require coding knowledge. I would’ve liked to see how you personally would utilise something like CoSpaces into your own classroom.
Overall, great post!
WEEK 10
CINDY SAID: Hello Deveree! Interesting post that you written about digital gaming within the classroom. It is great to know that researchers have proven the positive aspects of gaming towards student education but how would you use gaming in the classroom? Or would you actually even consider to use gaming within the classroom, despite the benefits that researchers have found?
WEEK 11
CINDY SAID: Hello Charmi! I liked reading your post about using robotics within the classroom. I personally thought that robotics was only really useful for STEM subjects. I liked hearing your opinion about using robotics within other KLAs. I might take your opinions into consideration for my own future classes!! However, it would’ve been great to see a little bit more explanation of how you would use Blue-Bot within the English/Literacy KLA more.
WEEK 12
CINDY WROTE: Hey Ben! I really enjoyed reading your post. The table that you presented within your post about the differences between traditional and constructivist classroom was really eye opening. A very easy read and it really made me think about how I could possibly change little bits of my own future classrooms. This concept of the “makers movement” seems really interested and I loved reading your own opinion on it.
CINDY TYPED: Hello Alex! Your post about constructivism within the classroom and it’s connection to the makers movement is great! I really liked Halverson & Sheridan referenced you used within your post about how constructionism and the makers movement doesn’t have to solely rely on technology in order to work! It really does put thinks into perspectives when trying to utilise technology in order to foster creativity. Great work
CINDY COMMENTED: Hello Deveree! It was a very quick read of your blog post but I did enjoy your thoughts and opinions on constructionism within the classroom. I do agree with your point that constructionism does seem to be a best fit for STEM subjects however I would’ve liked to know how exactly would you try and fit constructionism into the Arts and Humanities subjects. Even just some elements of constructionism being implemented within the classroom!
Digital Creativity & Learning 