Blog Post #1

 I want to say my main goal for this course is to learn if I like teaching or not. My grandfather was a teacher, my uncle was a teacher, my dad almost became a teacher so needless to say this is like in my genes. At the same time I used to be a tutor for geometry and an assistant teacher for a couple gifted kids so I know I'm at least capable. If I hate this class, it means I know my heart isn't in teaching and it's a lesson learned with three more credit hours under my belt but if I like it then this becomes something I actually might pursue.

As for if I use tech in education the answer was generally no. When I was teaching gifted kids I was making my own worksheets by hand making my own questions with no computer involved. But as for when I did geometry tutoring the tech was much more involved. Most notably I used Math Papa and Desmos. You don't have to know what those are but in short I effectively used the tools to show the people I was teaching the underlying concepts they were learning which in my experience produced the best results of who actually passed that class.

One thing I was learning about and really into for a bit there was geopolitics. I actually at one pointed wanted to minor in that but for reasons I won't go into that idea went down the gutter. But when I was into that there were a couple places I got my info from which included my class on International relations where because the class was so big it was mostly Canvas posted lectures that I learned through. I also had things like social media, and YouTube channels, and even I think watching the chaos of online debates was fun and at rare time educational to geopolitics I suppose. So I would say that was my kind of Personal Learning Network for that interest in particular.