Session 4 Reflections

I'm a victim of Cyberbullying

Over the weekend, in a pocket of 20 mins that i was playing my World Of Warcraft character in my desperate attempts to reach the highest level, i was Cyberbullied. Now this just brings to mind our session 2 weeks ago with regards to mind-mapping the Cyberbully concept, so i've decided to put my thoughts down here as well.

I was just minding my own business, when a player (real life) from an opposing faction decided to camp himself on top of a tall structure and casted DOTS (Damage over time) spells on me. Despite my attempts to self heal, i died. So i resurrected my character and was just about to mind my own business again, when he struck again and killed me. (He was of a higher level too.) So he kept at it for a span of 10 minutes non-stop. He camped me and other players and just consistently annihilated us. After which in my disgust i quit and just went to do something else.

As an adult, i'm able to handle all this emotionally, as for me it's not really a matter of life and death. For the impressionable youngster however, such repeated onslaughts of cyberbullying might cause some trauma or psychological distress to a youth. We must educate our youths on how to handle cyberbullying so that it does not distract them from the real world or cause them to bring their baggage to real life.

Session 4's thoughts...

3 things i've learnt

In today's session,1) i've learnt what's pertinent in a Lesson Plan, and how i should structure a lesson plan such that it's comprehensive and relevant.2) This means using suitable verbs to describe the objectives to be achieved and ultimately the goal of the lesson. 3) I've also learnt how we should be able to sit back and critique on our own lesson plans (in today's session however we critiqued another group's).

2 things i've applied
1) During yesterday's session for our TEL group's lesson plan, we used suitable verbs to bring across what we wanted to communicate and to make sure that what we have outlined in our objectives were pertinent and clear.

2) We also made sure the ICT we've incorporated supports our lesson objectives and that we did not work our lesson plan around the use of the technology.

1 thing i want to know more about
(Still reflecting upon this, i will update this soon..)