Haylee Cannon's Educational Technology Blog

  Working Project Plan: Digitial Storytelling Week 3     The story I’d like to explore is the negative impact book banning is having on the empathy and core knowledge of society. The impact of this story should emphasize the importance of the lessons learned through these classic novels. Ohler notes that a story arc map, “describes how the overarching story core plays out throughout the entire book, movie, or story” (Ohler, 2013). I'm using this map to include the elements of problem, question, solution, and response. The problem is that books are being banned, which creates a lack of knowledge about real world issues. The question explores how to bring these books back, and the solution is that reading and teaching these books will help educate society about very important issues. Our response should be that books should be used to help us prevent injustice and unfair treatment by showing us what happens when these injustices take place. Using these elements from Ohl...

  Hello all,       For my blog this week, I chose to focus on the Inequality is Real interactive presentation. I was so impressed by how they made it engaging and tailored to me as the viewer. The questions and activities allowed me to see how inequality was present for my individual situation. The interactive website was very informative and very personal. It showed me things about the world’s inequality through my unique perspective. The website actually created a very powerful story through its presentation of how inequality is real, personal, and fixable. This platform really spoke to you as a member of society and an individual consumer. The animations and interactions took me through an educational and informative journey by asking me questions to show me how I was a victim of inequality based on gender, education level, and salary range. It then gave solutions to fix the inequality issue through trade, employment, and financial regulation. By making this ...

Hello all,  My name is Haylee Cannon, and I have the ever-entertaining career of teaching 8th grade English in North Texas. I love my job because I am continuously impressed by my students and their ability to bring joy and laughter into any situation. As a teacher, my main job is to help students think critically and emphatically about their world and to replace their empty mind with an open one.  Because one of my main goals is to help students think critically, I am particularly heartbroken, frustrated, and confused about the book banning agenda that is developing within our country. I firmly believe that books teach us some of the greatest lessons we can ever learn, even when those lessons are hard to hear. It’s baffling that we are trying to get rid of these books because they may act as a social or political critique. Being difficult to hear does not mean it shouldn’t be heard. Oscar Wilde explains, “The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the ...