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I really liked the introduction activity to this presentation, as the class filled in we all had a sticky note resting on our tables. majority of these were pink apples, there were a handful of orange ones and only a couple green ones. Once everyone was settled and ready the presenter told us everyone with a pink note was able to stay, people with orange ones must leave in half an hour and the select few with green ones had to leave. It was a good way to show how unfair things can be and how certain people may feel, or have felt.

Another topic we spoke about with todays guest was inclusion of everyone. One of the main points was about field trips and their experience with their son. she gave us a true example that had happened to her son last year at school where the class went on a field trip and the bus that came for the class wasn’t suited for handicap people. She ended up having to leave work to come drive her son to the field trip. She spoke a lot about the importance of making everything inclusive and if a field trip isn’t going to be possible for everyone to participate in then the class shouldn’t be going.

In todays class we had a guest speaker who works with Science Venture. They are a youth camp/workshop group who puts on summer camps that brings science experiments and lab days into the summer camp setting. They offer jobs to students like myself throughout the summer as well to go work with these youth and teach them a lot of great things. It is a good group that helps teach youth with STEM.

We then looked at AI (Artificial Intelligence), we spoke about how common it is now days and how you can nearly find it everywhere. places like SIRI in your phone to Microsoft Words grammar checker to your navigation on your phone. It’s absolutely everywhere and isn’t going anywhere soon. therefore we talked about some of its uses and why it is an industry that is becoming very popular so quickly. Michael showed us a source that most people are familiar with by now called Chat-GPT (Chat for short). Chat is a AI which once given a prompt from a user searches through thousands of online sources and data bases to produce an answer. we looked at some prompts that we could give it and I really enjoyed playing with it a bit. I’ve never personally used Chat before today and I found it interesting the responses it gave. at first I was giving it funny prompts that I maybe didn’t know anything about and it gave me reasonable answers. But once I started asking it questions that I have a lot of knowledge about that’s when things got funny. I found that its main points are great, If I needed the headlines to a slideshow presentation this would by far give me the best titles for those slides. but once it started to dive into detail I found it to be both off in its information a little bit and it’s way of representing that info was very abrupt and choppy. You can easily tell that an AI wrote it, not a human.

This weeks class we were finally with Michael again! good to have you back…

we went over some more multi-media possibilities and learned some really cool photo editing features through Microsoft PowerPoint. this included how we can crop the background out of images, how to make moving or 3D slides, how to integrate icons. All of these are useful to better engage students in a slideshow presentation, or even get to know them better and share a bit about you. I really liked how easy and accessible this was to use and create your own image. I was given the opportunity to mess around with it for roughly 15 minutes and i came up with this atrocious creation…..

none the less I did manage to create something from scratch which I have never been able to do and all in all I am proud of whatever this might be called. aside from the odd water mark of course I think it is a master piece!

no its not that good just messing around again. It was just great to see how easily you can create something and its something you could have students do to tell a story or improve their slides.

This week we had Kristen join us as a guest speaker. She spoke with us about ways we can integrate outdoor education within our classroom. One topic she covered very early in her presentation was “Place Based Learning”. She explained this to us as giving students the opportunity to learn about the nature around them. Local plants, animals even cultures. I really like this form of learning and personally had this all around me growing up. I very strongly remember in grade 4 my teacher signed up to have salmon fry in our classroom. We watched the salmon hatch from their eggs and grow into fry. Once they grew to the right size we went into Goldstream river and released them with a local indigenous chief. I remember him speaking about the importance of the salmon returning every year and how people can help their population with things like hatchery’s and even smaller things like our classroom tank. I found this to be a great learning experience even in my young age which proves how important brining our local nature into the classroom can be.

We did an activity outside and she showed us a couple online apps and sources we could use within the class like plant & rock identifiers. there was a super cool editing app she shared where you could add voice overs onto your photos. she explained you can take a photo of a plant or animal and have a voice over explaining what the photo was about. I also really liked the Minecraft example where she had a couple students make a Minecraft landform and present it to her. I found that to be a cool way to have kids do something they like doing.