Course Reflection
This semester, we have discussed many different topics from digital natives, to utilizing technology to enhance our learning experiences, to MOOCs, and finally for-profit educational institutions. My thinking has changed over the course of the term (as it should); I am not a digital native, but nor am I a digital immigrant. I sit, sometimes uncomfortably, in a position of knowing enough to be dangerous, to quote a very good friend. This last week, for instance, I started a new semester, and the computer was not working appropriately in the classroom. I knew how to fix the computer, but I was still struck by the “what if I’m wrong?” Thought process, so I still called IT. As we have merged through the semester, I have considered technology in new ways. My students consistently suggest using apps like ‘Remind’ in my courses for them to have reminders sent about homework due dates, etc. Prior to this class, I found it offensive that students would need hand holding to remind them t