Final Reflection

As a final reflection of 495ESM, i want to start off saying how much I appreciated this class. I enjoyed the hands-off teaching that our professor employed. It allowed for us to form our own thoughts and values about what was being taught. The fact that the "lessons" were left open-ended allowed us to ponder about the topics and really consider what was being presented. This was an excellent approach for this class as the class provides students with knowledge and tips to bring with them in their teaching career. It opened up the opportunity to either take the lesson or choose to reject it. I loved this!

Because technology is becoming such an important part of everyone's life and it is growing and changing so quickly, it was such a great idea to bring this up in a classroom in preparation to teach in a technically advanced world. It is an excellent idea to get teachers to stop combatting students knowledge and use of technology in class and, instead, use it to our and our students' advantage. Learning about all the various mediums that are in arm's reach to teachers will provide a more exciting, relatable teaching time. With these skills, it allows for teachers to be up to date and using all that they can to reach students and encourage learning in any aspect. By using varying resources it also opens the student up to constant learning. Before, separating technology as merely a distraction instead of a tool was doing the student an incredible disservice. By showing them how to use more than just books and papers in order to educate themselves, opens up the entire world for learning opportunities.


By opening up the world like this also allows them to appreciate all form of life, culture, and identity. It allows for learning of people and in turn, they can gain respect and value in things and people foreign to them. This truly was a eye-opening class that filled my heart with much hope and encouragement. Of course I am to naive in thinking this can fix the world's prejudices. However, this is one step further than before. It allows for more conversations to level the playing field. I am so grateful I took this class.