A couple of notes on this section of the course. When I was in High School, many of my classes implemented the Socratic method for promoting engagement in my education, a practice that certainly should be woven into post-secondary education, and yet has not. I believe my continuing to engage my students with questions, and developing answers as a whole, we are not only able to educate our students but better incorporate the 'self' as mentioned earlier.
We also can not reject the importance of social media in the use of education. Most of our students are learning not through traditional texts but through shortened, bits of information propagated through Twitter, Facebook (now Meta) and TikTok. While this has certainly heightened an individual's tendency toward reading it has simultaneously limited the amount of information that can be retained to shorter bytes (generated by the word limits). This is why I have continued to use shorter notation in class, as a way for students to still actively engage with content in the present then engaging with longer content in the future (textbook reading assignments).
