Category: education
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Learning designer, not just a teacher
In 2019 I got ruffled at a colleague for saying educator was pretentious. I wasn’t sure why it rubbed me off the wrong way, but it did. But I got why he was wary – “educators” had a bad rep then as the Ted-Talk wannabes bordering on EduTech salespeople. Teachers were the ideal, the surrogate…
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Learner Support: Making an effective online classroom
Even before we ended up in the worst disaster movie nobody asked for I was frustrated at how the social noise surrounding blended and online learning were from a for-profit standpoint and made in developed world contexts. I found myself further working around it using tools that were free or at least kinder on my…
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[Portfolio] Fanfiction in the Classroom: Field Notes from a Fanfic Author turned Educator
I am still in utter disbelief that I had a basis for writing this. Fan fiction was like admitting that we read a novel’s “good parts” over and over again, and it’s a rabbit hole from there once you find it. I found a teacher’s lesson plan about fan fiction to a sheltered 7th grader…
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Summer 2017: Doing More
I was recently scandalized by two other people before who made awful well-meaning jokes about not being able to earn off teaching. I knew that teaching would not pay as well as corporate, and it won’t allow me to be a stereotypical millennial by way of traveling wherever or buying really nice things, but it would…