TECH TOPIC – #5 Piktochart

I was introduced to Piktochart, an online website where users can create infographics in Grade 12 for Social Studies. We were told to use infographics as a presentation tool for a group project about social injustice (mainly holocaust) in history. The topic that my partner and I were working on was the Nanjing Holocaust. And …

TECH TOPIC – #4 Reflection on Video Editing

I have done a unit about video editing in middle school and I didn't really enjoy it. I found it very difficult to understand and I just had no clue where every button that I had to click was. The unit was taught in a teacher-center command style which means that the teacher would model …

TECH TOPIC – #3 Minecraft

I have recently discovered a new hobby which is gaming (OVERWATCH!) and I was so excited knowing that we are playing Minecraft in class. I have never thought a video game can be a learning tool. Many teachers and parents are strongly against their students/ children playing video games as they claim that gaming has a …

TECH TOPIC – #2 Micro:bits

I have learned some basic programming/ coding in middle school, but I was never a fan of it. I remember that we were taught to simply type in whatever said in the textbook. It makes me perceive coding as a tedious task; I, as a child, just felt like I had to copy a bunch of …

TECH TOPIC – #1 Internet Safety

We had a guest speaker coming to talk about internet safety in one of the class. When I was in elementary school, it was never a topic addressed officially in class and it was brought up only a few times in middle school during assemblies. I originally thought that internet safety was nothing more than "stranger danger" or …