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I realized I submitted my Inquiry in my weekly dropbox. So this will be my Weekly reflection here. Sorry!

This week I worked with my group to get our project done. We are pretty close to finishing up, but there is a few more final touches left. I found it interesting learning about the dangers of social media especially on young kids. It is crazy how much social media has taken over out everyday lives, me included and it really makes you think about how harmful it is when you take a minute to just think about the impacts it has on us. I enjoyed our previous class, it was laid back and we spent time collaborating with our peers and talking about how technology is incoorperated into our pracitcum schools. Being in Tanzania for my practicum, it has been difficult trying to gather information about my school. However, it seems as though we will be very limited on resources, including all form of technology. I have been informed by staff the only materials we are given while being their is chalk and a chalk board. I am excited to see how creative I will get while teaching there!

This week I polished up a bit of my song, trying to make it sound smoother and flow better. The last bit of the song I haven’t filmed yet, I am still trying to catch up that part with the rest of cords. I am proud of my progress and find myself getting better and better each day. I am a little frustrated though because everytime I went to film myself playing this song, I kept messing up. I think it took about 20 tries before I could get one mediocre clip. So I do feel that this video does not represent the progress i have made so far, but it does show a bit of an imporvement from the last clip I attached.

This week I caught back up on my work for this class and spent some time organizing my work load. I found the guest lecture super helpful, the ways you can incorperate minecraft into lessons is so interesting and something I can totally see students loving. As someone who grew up playing Minecraft I would have loved to do a lesson on it in class. Minecraft allows students to be creative and can easily be incorperated into many lessons. There were even preprepared lessons available for teachers access that they can use anytime.

This week I was a little stressed with school, which caused me to fall a bit off track in my other classes. However, I really enjoyed Friday’s class, especially the activity where we got to work with our peers and create alternate lesson plan. I feel like my group worked really well together and we created a lesson that followed the SMAR criteria perfectly. This is definetly something I would like to introduce into my future classes one day.

We had a bit of a different class this week, but I honestly enjoyed it. The content was very interesting and it opened by eyes to some new resources and perspectives. I am looking forward to Friday’s class where we will participating in Pro-D lectures. This week I spent some time going over my piano music and making some adjustments. I had a heavy workload this week, so although I didn’t spend as much time as I would like to on piano, I have all reading break to practice!