Remixing Technology and Curriculum

For this canvas remix, I tried to mesh the lesson plan of “Bad Case of Bullying” with “The Changing Ideologies of Race, Culture and Demographics”. I felt these two meshed because they sometimes go together. It seemed that the lesson plan of race, culture and demographics, went well with bullying because sometimes in school student will face not only bullying but racial bullying. I felt these two would mesh well, so I decided to remix our canvases together. While I did take out some widgets from the previous canvas, not because I didn’t like them, it was strictly because the canvas kept warping and movie and it was very difficult to work with. So I eliminated two of the “more information” widgets and the video widget, because they were making it difficult to work with. I felt that the rest of the information would be able to stay to get the point of racial bullying across.

Here is the link to the remixed canvas

Social Media and Technology in English Education

Would involving technology in the English classroom make plagiarism easier? If a student is writing on their laptop, tablet, whatever they are using, would it be easier to just copy and paste something from the internet and use it as their own? Of course, in recent times, students would be able to copy and paste information and change some sentences and claim it as their own. But are we allowing that to happen? I would like to think that everyone is an honest writer, but what if you have other work to do, and an essay just slipped your mind. Now you have to do it at two o’clock in the morning. So wouldn’t it just be easier to copy and paste something? Do we have the technology to stop this from happening? Is the internet marring students from writing proper essays?

                I wrote in a previous post that one of my college professor was telling us how to write proper essays. Not you use “u” in place of “you” and such, so if the internet harming our writing and reading skills? Is it making it too easy to cut corners when writing and reading? Is the internet, social media, and our texting going to hurt the future generations? If so, how do we stop this? Do we even stop this or become accustomed to it? Is this what we have to look forward as English teachers of the new generation? It worries me that children are constantly on their phones, on the computers, shortening their writing just so they could type faster. But in reality it is going to harm them when they don’t know what proper “to” and “too” to use.

Sorry for so many questions, this has just been boggling my mind for a bit, and I wanted to see what you thought about this situation.