Student Post: Hailey Berrigan

Working in schools now is so different than when I was in school even just five years ago. Technology is used even more in the classroom than it was in 2020 and then Kahoot was still the big thing and no one had a clue Google Classroom existed until March of 2020. However, I did find the video about learning and testing through games quite interesting, in high school, specifically in Spanish class I remember that we had to play board games often where we would roll a die, move spaces, and then have to conjugate a word properly, define a vocabulary work, or say a sentence in the correct era in order to move forward and you were held accountable by your peers who you were playing with. Although we never made out own board games which could have been useful too.

I do not recall my teachers in elementary school through high school communicating with one another through any sort of social media platform and even though we were on the same curriculum in the same district ideas were never shared, not even from classroom to classroom. Twitter was used primarily for the superintendent and her messages and announcements, like if there was a snow day :) but besides that, Twitter was never really discussed. And besides the school websites parents were really directed to go anywhere else for information and neither were students.

Nowadays, especially since the pandemic has come and gone, TikTok is the new social media for teachers to communicate with one another and it is an awesome platform to come up with quick ideas for a lesson or theme day when in a time crunch. And ever since I have been on it I have found my community of fellow teaching students where they film, Day in the Lifes, how to answer interview questions, how to study for the MTCC exams or exams in general, and much more.