Most Likely to Succeed… at Trello

Alright, week two, here we go. For homework before this class, we were told to watch the documentary “Most Likely to Succeed,” which follows human creativity in high school. This documentary started with how artificial intelligence has developed over the past decades to be better at chess and Jeopardy than a human being.

They also talked about how many jobs will disappear over the next few years, regular workers being replaced with computers/robots. In my opinion, I believe this is not the whole story, as jobs are disappearing, but new ones are being created at the same time. John Oliver does a great video on the topic here.

But I’m getting off-topic. Today in class, we started setting up our Trello account. From my understanding thus far, Trello is a task organizing tool. Trello seems quite easy to set-up and use; however, it does seem like just another step or chore that must be completed.

For people who would prefer to go mainly digital in their planning (or lifestyle), Trello seems like a great option for general organization and group project planning.

New Blog?

Hello!

This is my first blog post on my new site. I have made a blog on WordPress before however, this set-up was much easier. Maybe because I have gotten older and wiser (but not by much). We were given a list of instructions in order to complete our set-up which made it a lot easier. I am excited to have an electronic database to record my knowledge and create a history of my learning. I look forward to sharing ideas on bringing technology into the classroom.

I believe blogs help students (as well as adults) track their learning and growth, as they can identify where their abilities started and how they have developed. Although, blogs and technology in general, are not always accessible to students in public schools. So it would be interesting to see how educators could take this digital platform and transfer it to traditional teaching methods.