Hi Aislinn! Thank you for thinking on multitasking and making us think about it, as well.
I would argue that along the line of Negin and Stephanie expressed. It is really related to how you define a task. For sure, people can dance while listening to music as dancing requires a different kind of focus. I don’t think that I think it is hard for many people to study while listening to music or while others are talking in the same room. Multitasking has been hard for me for years maybe that’s why I am thinking in this way. Many thanks again for pushing us to think!

I appreciate your post, Stephanie. When I was reading your post, I really hear you, especially what you wrote “as an educator, at first, I just wanted to survive in the class, so opted for mindlessness and just heavily relied on my lesson plan.” This is my first semester in teaching, I felt the same. But at the same time, I wouldn’t say this is a mindless way of teaching, don’t you think that it is also about feeling insecure particularly in our first times of teaching, given that we have less experience…

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Hi Ratshara, I appreciate your post and particularly making some self-reflection!
In one of my posts, I questioned myself as being obsessed with the ranking system, benchmarks, and focusing more on tests, as you said, rather than the actual learning. However, unfortunately, I really believe that this is the system which makes us like this. I can’t stop thinking about the video of Dr. Michael Wesch’s TED-talks that we watched. While we are more than scores and we are going to school to “learn,” it is the system that confined us to a box, not also technology, as you debated. I totally agree with you. Thanks for debating that.

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