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Week 13 intramurals

November 30, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Basketball: This was a fun week. This was the actual last game of the semester. That being said, almost no one showed up to the games. My team showed up, but the other team didnt. So, what we ended up doing was playing a rematch of last weeks game versus the team we lost by 4 to. A couple people who came for other games and shows team didnt show came and played for us. It was a hot game. Going into the final quarter, we were down 13 points. I rallied my team before the quarter and emphasized defense wins this. I was vocal and led my team to tying the game. We ended up winning in triple overtime. It was a rallying and immense effort. It felt great winning after such a hard fought game.

Moving forward to today. I find myself in the difficult position to reach out to some members of my team and telling them that I wont be inviting them for next semester. Im doing this because many didnt not show up or were inconsistent at best. So far they were receptive to this. One person seemed a bit upset but no conflict came from it. Im relieved for this. That being said, the core group of people is motivated for next semester and I look forward to it.

Week 13 reflection

November 29, 2023 / / 0 Comments
https://youtu.be/igzCUToSYHE?si=YPSyQoo689IoiUJK

This has been a fun week. In my groups presentation on a educational technology tool that us teacher candidates can use in the future, we chose to do ours on BandLab. We briefly spoke about what and how its used. This was kept short so that we can introduce the main event. My group have made, produced, filmed and edited a whole music video on AI in education. This video was fun to make and was fun presenting it to the class. I think it was safe to say that this was a hit. I personally didnt know much about BandLab before this project. However, I was able to help in ways that I could. I submitted the producer tags, adlibs and starred on the video. I have to give major props to Nishant who carried this project. His knowledge and expertise in audio creation was instrumental in this song.

Presentation link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iuE1e1FzZKiyipbmw7FYlAgLeuPLcX5p8YKSPWNEC6Y/edit?usp=sharing

Week 11 intramurals

November 24, 2023 / / 0 Comments

basketball: I’ll be using a speech to text for this format so I can be able to more naturally reflect upon how this week went how that was a decent week it was a very tight game it was a loss we lost about four points however this was probably 1 of our better showings as a team I thought we kind of played well overall we had one of my friends come in to kind of help alleviate the load he was very helpful when it comes to just bringing in a very positive atmosphere as he is a very positive person himself my team was pretty easy going now I made sure that before the game started that I spoke to everyone about you know thanking them for coming for throughout the semester and just thanking them generally for for playing it was it was a blast and I was trying to be my best to be a leader and to give some positive pointers on the game basically just kind of forgetting about the previous play this focus on the new one if calls don’t go our way ignore them just keep pushing I was decent at following my own mantra That being said in the last minute we were minute and 1/2 we were down 4 points and where I thought we had room to win my team was not putting pressure on the ball and the universal lack of efforts I think on the team’s part kind of got to me at that point and I was very much invested but maybe overly so and um I did curse out out loud not at someone but just generally and that was a theme that’s kind of come up throughout this semester and it’s something that I’m going to have to get better at because it’s something that I personally do not value I think it has its place but I think in an intramural context I believe it is out of place so that’s been something I’m going to reflect on and find a way to become better at is just kind of keeping my cool especially as things become frustrating at the end of games

Volleyball: This was a fun week for volleyball playoff started we ended up playing our first game against the number one seeded team which was confusing for how rankings worked on our league because it’s not based off of record it’s based off a sportsmanship point system which is kind of confusing to everyone but regardless we played our first game we played well overall I think myself I played well I think that finally figured out the positioning and where I need to be on the floor I do make the mistake every once in a while no but I think there’s been a lot of growth in the aspects I was kind of worried about at the beginning of the year that being said I also need to be able to work on my approach as my physical like jumping approach as I think that is the my biggest weak spot when it comes to volleyball I was speaking last week I believe about potentially playing for a different team one of my friends he’s making a volleyball team and I would like to play with him and some of my other friends instead of the team I’m currently playing with and that’s caused a bit of conflict amongst myself and my current captain for volleyball now everything went over well in person we had no no issues however there was still a bit of negative energy kind of going into this volleyball I think I can understand where that energy comes from because I bring a similar energy when I play basketball I think I just hold a lot more importance to basketball than I do the volleyball as in that is folly is just my fun sport but I do need to be able to reflect and shift my perspective on how I carry myself and how I express myself towards the team as I know that it affects everyone around me but no I’m looking forward to potentially playing volleyball again next semester I know where I improved I know where I’m lacking and I am excited to be able to continue the journey

Week 11 reflection

November 24, 2023 / / 0 Comments

No I believe an important part about preventing plagiarism with AI first of all just kind of comes down to awareness and education I think if we’re able to educate our students and being able to address the importance of academic integrity and consequences to the plagiarism that is one way we can kind of tackle it by preventing it in the 1st place also being strict on the guidelines of such there are some tools that we are able to leverage to detect plagiarism however that being said it’s not perfect there’s a lot of wiggle room and in the case where we are trying to be certain that one is plagiarism unfortunately our tools cannot perfect that for us I think another way we can kind of go about preventing plagiarism is honestly just making the assignments and topics much more personal or customized if we’re just asking them produce a very simple essay or topic that can easily be plagiarized by ai it kind of just invites that but if we make it a lot more personal or reflective then that’s one way we can avoid it and I think also just updating course material staying up to date mixing it up is also a good way to go about preventing plagiarism in this case

Week 9 reflection

November 20, 2023 / / 0 Comments

I will be using a speech to text for this reflection the topic at hand is my point of view on ai in education I think that this is a new and uncharted territory when it comes to all aspects of how we go about life and even education everything is evolving at a rapid pace at unpredictable events while we were talking about this in class we were talking about how we could use AI generated art or how we could use language models like chat gbt I think that these have value when approached at like a tool a comparison that I had made was how when the calculator was introduced the math Got harder now when it comes to Judge EBT one may use an unlimited sense as in please write me an essay for 200 words on whatever topic I think that is the wrong way to go about it I think like the example for the calculator in math I think we can use chat or language models in a similar fashion for example you could ask an ai model to make an essay and then your assignment is to analyze it and tell me how can you make this better where did this language model fail where is it lacking maybe it has some strengths point those out but I think we’re going to approach everything from a different maybe more critical lens with AI we spoke about the ethical aspects of using ai whether it is if it’s legitimate but also a lot of these am models don’t actually invent anything they simply pull information from the Internet itself and so someone still needs to be creating what these language models are based off of and we also have to be careful when it comes to privacy and with it language models because within those terms and services anything that you put into those language models can then be used as material or source for it but also with AI being a such an uncharted territory there’s a lot of volatility and it’s not established I think even just this week the CEO was fired from open AI the creators of chat GBT and they went to Microsoft instead as long with I think a significant amount of open AIS work force so we will see where chat gpt goes this might be the end for it we don’t know

Week 8 reflection

November 20, 2023 / / 0 Comments

I’m going to be using a speech to text for this reflection piece The topic for this week was gamified learning and I think that it has its place within education I think that incorporating game like aspects to education can help with the dullness or the repetitiveness potentially of teaching and learning however I think there is a fine line between making everything to a game I think it could potentially take away from the seriousness of it all and also from a lot of the game of fight aspects that we looked at in class a lot of them revolves around computer screens they think that a lot of students are a significant amount of students rather spend quite a bit of time on or in front of a computer or a screen and I think maybe introducing more of that in a classroom but have detrimental effects or effort learning another aspect that was brought up by Julia was that if you’re incorporating a game aspect to education then you also have to teach the proficiencies that come with said game for example if you’re going about it through minecraft you first have to assess whether or not students even know what minecraft is or even how to play a game and that is just an initial roadblock for those students to even be able to participate and even succeed in that activity it might help other students connect better but I think for a good majority of them it’s just not where we should be investing our time and energy

v.li.: Immanuel McElroy (Science City Jena, 23), Jerome Randle (Rockets, 9), Sava Lesic (Rockets, 15)

Almost there!

November 20, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Basketball: So for this inquiry post I’m going to be using speech to text again so I believe where I left off last time on this inquiry we were just about going into the playoffs so this was about two weeks ago now and what I thought was going to be an easy win turn out to be rather a challenge and I think we’re most that challenged end of happening is was because of people not showing up when the game started we only had four players one we needed 5 and the other team had 10 about halfway through the second quarter the fifth person showed up however by that point I think the game was kind of over yep I was getting frustrated I think with how the way I was playing and some of the ways that my team was playing I did get that that get the better me some moments but I think we still played basketball no by this coming week this is the last time we’re gonna be playing basketball this semester I’m looking forward to it I have one of my better friends he’s coming to join us and some of my players they said their friends might be interested so this time we might actually have over 8 players which is going to be huge at the ends of tomorrow’s game i’m gonna be doing a quick 5 minute meeting just to kind of see where everyone’s at assessing whether or not they wanna continue again for the next semester and kinda just thank everyone for playing

Volleyball: For this entry again I will also be using a speech to text volleyball’s been a bit hit or miss in the last couple of weeks on one hand I’m very happy and grateful to be playing volleyball on the other hand I do not like playing with my team I think overall they’re quite bitter and negative at what point they were complaining about sportsmanship points which is how we are ranked and when I asked one of my friends who’s A referee he said that the reason why we have such low sportsmanship points is because of my captain and a couple of other players to which in hindsight I can see why I would like to be able to play volleyball again next semester I do enjoy The sport however I think I’m going to be playing with a different team why don’t we have one more game maybe two this coming week we’ll see how those go and hopefully we can win and make it to the end other than that I’m going to have to see my captain to which I told her that I would unlikely be playing for them again next semester so we’ll see how that interaction plays out

Intramurals, Playoffs

November 6, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Basketball:

So playoffs are starting this week I’m looking forward to it coming this Tuesday we’re gonna be looking at a double header meaning that we have our first game at 7:00 o’clock if we win that game then we’ll play again at 8:00 o’clock the team that we play at 7 was the team that we ended up beating by 30 points just about a month ago I think if we keep the same game plan going into that week going to tomorrow I think we have a good real good chance of winning for our second game I think it’s just a guaranteed loss and considering they are going to be the number one seed in this in this bracket I don’t know I think I gotta go into this as from a leadership point of view as a leader point of view just one game at a time I think I got to approach this with my team saying hey we’re gonna play this first make sure we get water make sure you get snacks but we’re playing this we’re telling this game first and we’re gonna focus about the on the next point on the next goal throughout the first game and we gonna come our way with this win that being said I feel confident going into our first game but I can’t let that confidence turn into arrogance and then laziness I’m also looking into potentially coaching speaking with one of my colleagues in the PDP program she was mentioning how she used to coach but no longer anymore and I asked her like hey how do you actually get your foot through the door was that like I want to do it and she referred me to her 1 friend at Lansdowne I would love and cherish the opportunity to actually be able to coach and give back to the community I had tremendous coaches volunteer coaches throughout my athletic career and I would love to be able to get back

Volleyball:

Going into volleyball this week I think playoffs also start on that front however that being said we are very confused about how we actually get ranked or tiered in this system there is a new emphasis on what is called sportsmanship points which wasn’t ever elaborated to us nor do we actually understand what it means all that we know is that we are somehow bottom of our tier when it comes to these points there is zero transparency when it comes to this we don’t know why what the criterias are we have never fought or argued or whatever I thought we were being very sportsmanlike maybe we cheered a bit too hard when we got some points I don’t know that being said I think we’re all just trying to keep a good morale and a good attitude going into this week I personally am still learning i’m getting better when it comes to positioning and that was made evident last week when I believe I actually costed my team to win because I was out of position and they were expecting me to be able to fill that those gaps when I in fact wasn’t there to to cover it

Gamified Learning

November 1, 2023 / / 0 Comments

So last Tuesday we spoke about gamified learning I believe that gamified learning has its place within the classroom. I think that it is a good idea to make games or have game like elements into teaching and lessen plans in just various activities. I think it takes away maybe the more less interesting aspects of teaching or learning and ultimately just makes it more fun. I think one of the best ways in places that we do learn is when we are at play. I don’t think that having video games is the best way to go about education. I think like myself and a lot of other students we spend quite a bit of time already at home in front of the screen or playing games for whatever reason maybe and I think that introducing it within a classroom setting is just perpetrating a lifestyle or a way of doing that is just in front of a screen and that’s not even talking about the literacy aspect of teaching or learning through games. One person spoke I spoke about something that I consider is simple like minecraft, that they have no clue how to go about it. They say there not sure if they are just too old for it or if it’s just the literacy aspect as if they just can’t learn this there’s a lot of assumption based so I think if we go about it in the sense that we are all learning through video games or some very gamified version that some kids maybe my excel or do well but I think there’s gonna be more kids who are gonna fall through. I think it’s worth considering and in in a way gamification but I think that having it as a way of being is not but we should be doing.

Week 7 inquiry and sport dominance

October 29, 2023 / / 0 Comments

I’m gonna be using a speech to text for this blog entry has kind of introduced it this week for our reflection piece and what I’m finding is that it’s actually a lot easier to be able to just speak my ideas and having to just write them out especially in a inquiry part because I feel like when I type stuff out I filter everything that I’m trying to say whereas when I’m speaking it kind of comes out more naturally and I’m able to kind of say everything that kind of comes to mind not just what I think is most important

Basketball: This was an awesome week for basketball usually going into all the other weeks we’ve usually had some downs kind of the week before either that people maybe weren’t cooperating or talking or communicating rather basically just not meshing well on the court this week was potentially one of our best games yet this year we had a few absences one person was out for an anniversary the other person messed up their knee the other person was away I think on co-op so we were down a couple of people I think going into the game we actually only had four thankfully someone our 5th person showed up from their lab about five minutes late but you know we’ll take it this was a neck and neck game back and forth we were within one point within six points really the entire duration and being the captain I had to be able to find a way to motivate this team I had to find a way to promote and encourage and just get a good behavior going and leading by example I my other big man was out again for the co-op I played I think thirty-six thirty-seven minutes out of the 40 I was exhausted I was sprinting up and down the court I was matched up against the 300 pound unit on the other team that being said this game turned out to come down to the like the La Last shot we were down one point with 20 seconds left we got a play going our point guard cut to the corner drew the defender from the top of the key passed the tour or little guy this man has not hit a shot the entire semester but in that moments I could see it he knew he was ready check that ball shot it from the top of the top of the key all Nets we were so ecstatic and got to be honest I was not expecting anything out of him because again he had not hit a single shot all semester but it all came down to this one shot and he made it work all of us were so hyped in being able to get this man feeling good and getting the rest of us hyped up for this win it was a big moment

Volleyball: For volleyball it was an interesting week the last couple of entries I believe that I have been mentioning how a guy on the on our team has been causing some issues particularly when it comes down to him saying that he would rather play all the time and us lose than him having to sub and us win turns out after last week he actually decided just to drop himself from the team entirely which is what I told the captain she should do he said he would do it and I told her just let him follow through with what he said we had two games come Thursday our first game was it wasn’t a nail biter we lost the first set by a couple of points brought it back to size still be in the 2nd and ended up winning in overtime despite going about 10 minutes over our given time frame to actually do this this overtime because our two other sets just took forever to do as it was such neck and neck was such long rallies I’m so confused when it comes to rotations particularly like on the 5 1 rotation being a power sometimes I just don’t know where I’m supposed to be my teammates all they all seem to know where I should be and they tell me I wish I’m incredibly thankful for but you know I’m still learning i’m still trying to not mess up as much but no I got some my goal this week was to jump more for the longest time I just never jumped because I never could quite get the timing down we jumped and boy did we make it work surprisingly as well I did not miss a single serve this week which was crucial for my team being able to to succeed for the second game was more or less the same I think we just took that momentum and just dominated dominic’s a strong word we won by About 10 or 7 points again I think we were just feeling ourselves from you know getting rid of the drama and from a personal point of view I think I’m at my goals I think I jumped more I think I am slowly starting to figure out the rotations and I’m happy to hear it and I’m happy to see it work out

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