Blog Post #8

  I learned a lot of skills from the website design assignment. I made a website during my freshman year of high school, but it was primarily pre-made and I just used it to upload photos for my photography class. This assignment was a lot more in depth and required me to learn a lot of new skills such as how to embed videos and images, and how to change the format to fit my vision. I also had to take into consideration the principles of design when making my website. Most of the principles were easy to incorporate, such as repetition and alignment. The website themes were preformatted to use the same fonts and have alignment that made sense. Contrast was a little harder. The banner I used for the headers and background was a little harder to have contrast on since there were a lot of lighter colors. There were different shapes and colors that I had to figure out where to position so they wouldn't clash with the words that are important. 

QR codes are a great tool for classrooms. They can be used in so many different ways for learning, sharing information, surveys, and more. In lower elementary grades, some grades may be equipped with iPads that students can use to scan QR codes if teachers wanted to include them in the lesson. They can also be used to get information to parents quickly; just send home a paper QR or put it outside the pickup door and parents can scan it quickly and automatically see whatever information they need. In higher levels of education, where students may have a phone that they can use for scanning QR codes. Teachers can use them for videos relevant to the lesson, surveys or exit tickets to gauge student understanding, information for students, and more. There are so many ways to use a QR code in the classroom.

In the ethical scenario I am choosing, an 8th grade English teacher uses AI to write 3 short stories that students can use as an outline to write their own. The teacher allows students to use AI for brainstorming and helping with specific sections they are struggling with. When grading he realizes that some of his students' stories are identical to the outlines AI gave them, however the school does not have a policy about AI. As a teacher, I would use this as a teachable moment. I wouldn’t grade the assignments, instead I would bring the dilemma up to the class. I would explain to them the dangers of AI, and I would also explain why I want to hear their original thoughts rather than an AI generated story. Then, since the school doesn't have an AI policy, I would work with my class to make our own AI policy for our class. I would give them another chance to redo the assignment, and if I saw them using AI for it I would refer back to whatever we had decided in our class policy. This is a great teaching moment that holds students accountable.