Quite a week for me personally in this class. Jessica, James, and me had a very tough time figuring out the Guided Practice assignment so I did some "old fashioned" note-taking with a pen and paper while re-listening to the recording of the class and we got it figured out. I do appreciate the assignment offering practical scenarios as one of the big problems I had with mathematics growing up was that the teachers I had rarely integrated practical uses of what I was learning. This definitely goes hand-in-hand with the idea of authentic learning. I am a history teacher and sometimes it can be difficult to make the content extremely relevant and authentic to the kids but exercises like the guided practice make me realize how important it is to constantly do that.
Watching the Bill Tancer video scared me a bit. Although he is obviously a brilliant man the whole idea of data collection and the potential risks of companies keeping digital footprints in some sort of database makes me nervous and wonders what it could do to our privacy. I hope the day never comes when using a computer for a lot of different tasks (which I currently do) makes it okay for my online activities to be registered and monitored.
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