How should we treat each other? That’s the guiding question for the course, and an important one (though seemingly innocuous at first) for an educator. And as a feminist, it’s something that needs to be really fully analyzed. I call myself a feminist for a variety of reasons, but the biggest one is for advocation. Being an advocate for others is a large part of the ethic of care, and part of the reason the ethic of care is tied so closely with the feminist movement as I see it. The more case studies that […]
Discovering a New Talent: Food
I have been cooking for myself too long. And by “cooking” I actually mean shopping for cheap frozen dinners and microwaving them. Yes, I have a pretty good handle on the quickest, cheapest, and most delicious (in my opinion, anyway) of the food. The last time I had to cook for more than myself, I wasn’t very creative about it and determined that I must lack said skill of coming up with dinners. So when I went on my last grocery shopping trip, I was pretty sure I was going to fail at that one […]
EDU-5041: Promoting Inventive Thinking
“Guiding Question: How do contemporary definitions of literacy liberate educators to empower students’ inventive thinking?” One of the greatest things about literacy in the digital age is its diversity. It is more readily accepted that literacy is not simply the ability to read and write. It is the ability to communicate in meaningful ways. And yes, a huge part of that is digital literacy. Everything is online now. Finding information can take mere seconds. It’s understanding what information is relevant and useful, what sources you can use and what should be looked out for, that […]
Thoughts: NHD and Feedback, Feedback, Feedback!!!
My copy of Teaching the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework: Exploring Inquiry-based Instruction in Social Studies came in the mail today. As I’m still a student in my education program, I get very excited whenever I get mail from the National Council for the Social Studies. It makes me feel more like a professional. At the same time, I have a habit of bringing the latest mail from them to class and showing it to the only other social studies content area person in my class. I was just as excited to see […]
Girls CAN Code and I am Proof
I always think it’s weird that more girls aren’t encouraged to go into STEAM careers. And then I remembered the fact that I grew up in a very different household from most of the other girls in my generation. I put emphasis on STEAM and not STEM because that is the kind of household we had. STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts and Math) is a much more “Renaissance” way of looking at it. It’s well-rounded. So well-rounded in fact that the phrase “Renaissance Woman” was used in every single one of my college recommendation letters. […]
Living with Kosmimaphobia
When I first looked it up, it was listed several places as “gemnophobia”, so the first most common reaction I would get when I told people I had gemnophobia was, “Oh, so do you Lysol your entire house?” Ah… So I guess I should explain… “Not germophobia, gemnophobia. I have no trouble with germs. I actually think germs help you stay healthy.” “What is gemnophobia?” Well, it’s not actually gemnophobia. I have kosmimaphobia. A fear so weird and unheard of that it was possible to actually get an inaccurate result for what it was called on […]
Things I’m Thankful For
I was nominated by my aunt to do one of those things that you have to do continually for a week. This one is to post three things you are thankful for every day for a week. As usual, I decided against posting (most of it) on Facebook. Why post on Facebook over the course of a week (inevitably annoying those people you are thankful for when you know you have a bad habit of continually posting to Facebook once you get going in a 24 hour span), when you can just get it all […]
Books That Have Influenced Me
Here’s another list of ten books – yet again inspired by a Facebook pass-it-along type game. However, this one asked for a reason that the book influenced you, and it wasn’t restricted to childhood books, so I figured it was time to put up another list. So here goes:
EDU-5320: Technology in Education
Reflection on website designed for course. http://robindonovan.wix.com/edutechjsc