https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8 Let's use this space to start organizing our thinking on Critical Perspectives. I've started us with a few quotes pulled from the discussion that it might be helpful to react to and rearrange as we process. Let's connect posts, move them, and really map out our understanding! What do we still have questions about? What challenges us about this topic? en-us 2020-04-22 21:26:33 UTC 2020-04-27 18:00:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2049.png abrake2 https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530274188 When she struggled on tasks, the feedback was clear and consistent. ]]> 2020-04-25 17:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530274188 abrake2 https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530274637  I agree with their assessment that the vast majority of educational apps indeed are just interactive workbooks with cute graphics and addicting sound effects.]]> 2020-04-25 17:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530274637 abrake2 https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530275261 The new media provide opportunity to enhance various forms of understanding, knowing, expressing, and critiquing.]]> 2020-04-25 17:50:28 UTC https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530275261 abrake2 https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530275626 Godwin-Jones (2011) believes most mobile-assisted language learning applications are in a behaviorist approach and are lack of the innovation.]]> 2020-04-25 17:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530275626 abrake2 https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530276158 If educators can explore new possibilities to teach language by the new media instead of following the traditional linguistic approach (usually behaviorist approach in today's apps), the new era of language learning will come.]]> 2020-04-25 17:51:30 UTC https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530276158 abrake2 https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530277331  Although not impossible, I think that an individual teacher, or a small cohort of teachers in a school district, would have a more difficult time adopting and implementing a deep constructivist pedagogy than would an entire district committed to the same goal. ]]> 2020-04-25 17:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530277331 abrake2 https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530277924 Quoting Becker they said that “Computer use in low-SES schools often involved traditional practices and beliefs about student learning, whereas computer use in high-SES schools often reflected more constructivist and innovative teaching strategies.” ]]> 2020-04-25 17:53:24 UTC https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530277924 abrake2 https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530278524 Gardner's (2013) article on apps reveals the potential of apps as enablers, so is it possible to use these apps as methods of scaffolding to students who lack that support in their homes?]]> 2020-04-25 17:54:01 UTC https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530278524 abrake2 https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530279049 This phenomenon of 'social envelope', how due to a lack of appropriate adult supervision, and the attitude towards technology at home, these kids ended up wasting more time on the computer instead of learning or even offline studying.]]> 2020-04-25 17:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530279049 abrake2 https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530279617 Even after controlling for individual, parental, and family characteristics, it was found that the difference between the graduation rate for those who owned a computer home vs those that did not was 6 to 8 percentage points.]]> 2020-04-25 17:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530279617 abrake2 https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530280011 In an environment like this, I felt that there was no possible way to succeed if you did not have a personal laptop.]]> 2020-04-25 17:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/abrake2/pr7f0vylq5s3ixj8/wish/530280011