Over the past few weeks, I spent time exploring and playing with Makey Makey. Using Makey Makey kit, any object that conducts electricity such as fingers, Play-Doh, and bananas can be used as a keyboard. What’s more exciting is that anyone could easily make their own Makey Makey program on Scratch, a free education programming language, and an online community. One challenge I encountered was connecting the Makey Makey board to various objects for them to work as a keyboard. When I first tried to connect the alligator clips, I was disappointed and worried at the same time as my Makey Makey board would not light up. However, I was able to solve this problem with the help of some Youtube videos, including “Makey Makey - Solving Problems” and Makey Makey website. Here’s a short boomerang video of my innovative technology: Richard Culatta (2013), a Chief Executive Officer of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), mentioned in his TED talk that educators should use technology to reimagine learning and not to merely digitalize traditional learning practices. With this in mind, I designed an innovative learning experience incorporating Makey Makey into my English Language Learner (ELL) classroom. In this lesson, students will design and create an interactive presentation to share the short story they have written using Makey Makey and Scratch. This innovative learning experience would help my students develop not only their English proficiency but also 21st-century skills, including collaboration, creativity, and communication. Also, my students will be encouraged to take risks, try, test, and solve problems while working with their partners. Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay Another aspect that I explored this week was media consumption. According to Pariser (2011), people get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that contradicts their belief. Reviewing my Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking services I use to build my professional learning network (PLN), I noticed that I was also somehow trapped in a "filter bubble." This week, I intentionally followed people and read articles that have different viewpoints from what I believe in order to widen my perspectives. From this experience, I learned that we need to carefully consider and reflect on the way we use technologies to consume information, especially when this could influence our professional practices. Resources:
Culatta, R. [TEDx Talks]. (2013, Jan 10). Reimagining learning: Richard Culatta at TEDxBeaconStreet [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0uAuonMXrg Pariser, E. (2011, March). Beware online "filter bubbles" [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles Skitterian, R. & Skitterian, P. (2015, April 8). Yashica fliter camera vintage photography classic [image]. Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/photos/yashica-filter-camera-vintage-711794/ Unless otherwise noted, the video presented on this blog is the property of the blog owner.
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