Because of the current pandemic, instructors are facing the challenging task of making their courses both accessible and applicable to learners. Professors are expected to tailor their content and pedagogical practices to address their students’ preferred learning styles. As us students (or most of us, at least) are forced to …
Why couldn’t the programmer dance to the song? Because he didn’t get the algo-rhythm… hehehe CodeAcademy is a great way to get your feet wet and figure out if coding is something you’d like to progress further in. It’s doing a great job at keeping me motivated, teaching me …
In recent years we have moved to a media-rich world where there has been a growing interest in the use of multimedia throughout education. Today, we live in a world in which digital technology is part of our everyday lives. Technology is a powerful tool that offers extensive opportunities for …
Hi folks, my second inquiry post is a little delayed… it’s been a hectic week to say the least. My journey to mastering the art of coding has officially begun. I’m using the website Codeacademy right now that I found on google to begin my quest… so far so good. …
My experiences in English Language Arts classrooms have been stimulating, inspiring, demanding, and rewarding all at once. I have always enjoyed my English classes, no matter what. I could have had the most boring teacher, or no friends in class at all, yet I still found myself enjoying it. Why …
If you’re a doctor who doesn’t follow privacy laws… does that make you a FIPPAcrite? It’s interesting to consider how it is that we are to maintain our privacy. How it is that we consider and assess our own perceptions of privacy. It’s crazy that we have to determine our …
What does it mean to own music? Brett Gaylor’s “open-source documentary” RiP: A Remix Manifesto (2009) is an attack on corporate culture for using copyright laws to silence freedoms of expression. Gaylor explores the flaws of copyright in the information age, suggesting that copyright laws need to make sense for …
Today’s classrooms are structured to fit into a rigid system that leaves essentially no room for one to be creative. Creativity simply does not comply with the rules of standardized education and are generally seen as a practice saved for your own free time. Throughout the documentary Most Likely to …
I am interested in learning about what is going on behind my screen. Coding is used to program the websites, apps, and other technologies we connect with daily. I know what coding is used for, but how does it work? How does coding create websites and apps? What is going …
