Candice Hughes

  Hello everyone!!  I hope you all had a wonderful spring break. I enjoyed listening to everyone's presentation this week in class(:      According to Kalantzis & Cope, n.d. a knowledge process is an activity type which represents a distinct way of making knowledge and learning. I am excited to start the design unit plan assignment. I don't have many ideas just yet, but one idea I had relates to design in Math. (Geometry) The idea is for my students to find a real world object or thing and shrink it in size creating a model. (experiencing the new) For example students could model the Golden Gate Bridge, The Great Pyramids, etc. Once they have researched the object they would like to model, they will be expected to find the history, specs, an any other interesting information about their object/item. (conceptualizing by using theory) Students will then need to use the specs they have found and scale the item down based on a 1 to 1000 ratio beginning to build their design. (a

                                      Hello class,       Thanks again for visiting my blog site. This semester we have learned a lot about digitally-mediated teaching and learning approaches. We have learned how to blog, markup images, podcast, code, and much more. Everything we have learned this semester will benefit my future students. As future educators, we can use these learning approaches to develop our students in ways that I did not think about before taking this course. While I understood technology can develop young minds, I always disliked the idea of technology. Learning about technology at a young age, helps children grow and learn. Young learners can use technology to explore new worlds, make believe, and actively engage in fun and challenging activities. I can't wait to incorporate technology in my future classroom.      I n the Sawhney (2021) video we watched, she came up with the idea of a Janet. I had never heard of this term/character before this week. It was coo

 Hello class and welcome back!! This weeks class was intriguing. I enjoyed learning how to use technology in writing and my favorite part was learning how to code. What was yours?  The goal of our Design Unit Plan is to design a process mediated by digital technologies and to include an example of product of learning that students would create in the unit of instruction. Our unit plan is very similar to Project Based Learning. The tips proposed by Pappas (2015) were quite an interesting read. Project Based Learning is something we should all incorporate into our future classroom. This type of learning gives students the opportunity to develop skills through real world problems. Learners are able to conduct research, collaborate in group discussions, and share feedback. Several tips were given in the reading that relates well to our design unit plan. The first thing that stood out to me was real-problem simulation. Real world problems often tend to stick to our minds better than a lectu