Reflection # 2

People always make decisions on what they eat, wear or use for their daily living. And those decisions are made through filtering what is good for consumption and what is not.  I was taken aback during this week’s lesson when I was required to make such decision on the website I intend to have my students use for lesson activities.  This activity has taken me through the process of weighing what is factual against what is not. Knowing what I know now about dangers of just consuming unfiltered or verified web information, especially, the thought that information can be weaponized, I gladly took this activity to heart. Another lesson I learned was that there are a million of internet tools one can utilize to make a lesson fun and manageable. Even though we have such manifold of tools to use, we must always remember that not all tools are equal. We should therefore choose carefully which tools to use for what purpose. One of the things that came to mind as I was evaluation this website was the question of the tools appropriateness, relevance and ability to meet my students needs and goals.  I am concerned on how these tools will impact my student population. I am constantly reminded that while we have all these wonderful arrays of diverse tools, their impact in their use is as good as their appropriateness and relevance to the student who uses them. So as a teacher, I am constantly made aware of the fact that the tool I use is as good as its ability to make teaching and learning easy and fun for all of us in the classroom.