Personal Reflection
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During the website building task as part of assessment two, my understanding of technical web design skills developed immensely. It was a great opportunity to apply some educational theories learned throughout the course into a practical and functional element. I was able to creatively construct the website via various tools, giving me great insight into what it might take to be digitally fluent in collaboration with my future pedagogy (Howell, 2013 p.13,).
Through constant critical reflection during the process, I made decisions that affected the end product. For example, I started the task using wordpress.com and struggled with the lack of features I was looking to utilise in the free version. I made a call to start my website from scratch with roughly a week to go using wix.com. The content delivered in the auditory summation could have been refined and questions rephrased to elicit longer and succinct answers from my guest.
The inclusion of many unfamiliar tools including RSS feeds for the dispersal of the podcast, customised animations and GIFs to create a personalised theme, vector art to add a creative and visually appealing notion and even the inclusion of HTML coding to achieve a nuanced design were all challenging to incorporate, yet rewarding and aided in the final result.
My thoughts resonated with Howell’s (2013) and Sparrow’s (2018) views that; the perception of educators has shifted from the traditional “all-knowledgeable” paradigm to one where teachers are now facilitators of learning by a multitude of means including ICT.
There are no denying future technological impacts on the workforce and economy will have changed throughout students’ schooling years. It is necessary, therefore, that educators have provision to encourage and aid in their overall digital fluency to put them in the best stead. That being said there is also a challenging aspect for governing bodies in that some students in Australia remain on the deficit side of the digital divide.
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References
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Image 1.2. Digital Divide Wordle. 2020. © Wordle Inc., 2020
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Image 2.1. Cyberbullying Banner (From left to right)
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Image 2.2. Cyberbullying Wordle. 2020. © Wordle Inc., 2020
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Image 3.1. Digital Divide Banner (From left to right)
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Image 4.1. Digital Fluency Banner (From left to right)
Monkey Business. (n.d). Female Student Building And Programming Robot Vehicle In After School Computer Coding Class
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