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 I enjoy blogging more than I thought I would initially. I think it’s a great way to reflect on the concepts of the week and think about how I can potentially use these concepts and skills later in life. I like that there is a great deal of freedom with blogging and that I can talk about my own experiences how I choose. I prefer this kind of assignment to test my knowledge over discussion boards because it has more leeway and can be more personal. Since I’ve started blogging in this class, I’ve improved on my understanding of the technological skills we have learned.


A Web 2.0 tool that I would like to use in my future teaching is Wikis. Wikis provide a collaborative approach to receiving and sharing information, and I do not feel like they are utilized in an educational setting enough. Though wikis’ reliability have been criticized due to anyone’s ability to make changes, I believe it is still important for students to learn from these sites. They can learn how to be critical of information and to do extra research to confirm the potentially tampered results.


I really enjoyed my experience using generative AI because I haven’t used it in the past. It really showed me the power of AI in the context of teaching. For the generative AI assignment, I thought about a potential lesson plan for students to analyze and discuss a piece of literature each week. I love the way we use blogs each week, and feel that it can facilitate learning and reflection for high schoolers reading a difficult text. AI gave me an expansive overview of multiple weeks worth of lessons for this potential lesson plan. I used AI to expand on the lesson plan and it gave me much more than I expected. Overall, generative AI worked great for me.


In the future, I definitely see myself using generative AI to expand my ideas and fill in the cracks of my lesson plans. It showed me a glimpse of how beneficial AI can be, especially in teaching. AI gave me a plethora of ideas to reflect on, including objectives and learning outcomes. I feel that this can be useful in plenty of other ways as a teacher too, including feedback on lesson plans and grading rubrics. Though there is an ethical concern to using generative AI, I think that a specific conversation with students about how to use it properly and morally could teach them the usefulness of AI. It is important to point out how beneficial it can be without using it to explicitly cheat, and the best way to do that is by showing its benefits in my own teaching. Examples in class and discussion about ethical concerns of using AI can show students the right ways to use it to their benefits.


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