Bianca

As I created my collage, I wanted to find a strong symbolic image that I felt represented my growth not only throughout this course but also my growth as an educator in 2020. I selected a Sunflower because I felt the symbolism of it sprouting out of the ground and taking up space spoke to my experience in this course starting off with quite honestly very limited knowledge around CALL and ICT and now at the end of this course, confidently taking up space as I am able to express the knowledge I have received regarding the use of various technologies within the classroom. I started off my collage by stating the 3 key ideas and questions I entered the course with, as an educator during the Covid-19 pandemic I have had to become a virtual educator relatively quickly and without much preparation. These questions have guided me throughout my experience in this course and helped me to ground the foundational knowledge we received in my personal practice. I included a diagram in my collage that helped me to visually present my flow of thoughts and the various intersectional issues that have come up as I have navigated the course. As we move up the sunflower, I explain my beginning thoughts as the course began, and then how the issues of interconnection came up as I navigated both digital learning and teaching. I then began to consider how notions of unpredictability came up specifically as my group and I cultivated our product for our Technology Integration Project. I then discussed the lingering concerns I still have at the end of the semester and finally, contextualized the information and foundational knowledge from the course into how it will be actively applied in my personal classroom.
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