Crae's ENG-235 Blog

Video games, virtual reality, and other online spaces are not only beneficial for entertainment, but if used in the right way, can be extremely beneficial for educational purposes as well. Implementing this into the classroom can open new accessibility options, improve student engagement, and amplify student voices. To begin, an online space that I was/am really unfamiliar with is Book-Tok. I really only see Tik Tok as an entertainment platform, which could be caused by my toxic sludge FYP, but I was extremely hesitant when beginning to read. In the class reading, Book Tok 101 , I was really surprised to see an educator named Trevor including TikTok within his classroom since 2018. Not only has he seen TikTok allow students to actively engage in variations of creative writing, visual storytelling, and culture sharing, but it also built numerous skills such as communication, digital, social, and emotional (Jerasa and Boffone 224). All of these skills are beneficial especially for studen...

 As time moves on how will we, as future educators, combat unstoppable, evolving technology? With Unit 3 revolving around social media, it was an eye-opening lesson that introduced how this emerging literature composition will inevitably be implemented into the classroom, but also highlights the negative impacts it will have/currently has on students worldwide. In the reading, Unearthing the Problem: Social Emotional Learning in the High School English Classroom  by Julie Harding, she provides her student's electronic usage, but also introduces the negative impacts it brings. To begin, Harding allowed her students to set their own goals for lowering their electronic usage, and eventually, reflected on their findings over the course of two weeks. At first, they were seeing near 100+ pickups per day with the average being 47. The students were in agreement that their usage should be brought down, and they did bring it down for other important tasks. To see that  Hardin...