I found a lot of similarities between my own usage and things that Sophy brought up in her first few paragraphs and then she brought up some very cool technologies that I would be potentially interested in learning more about. While I was reading Sophy’s post, one thing that came to mind as a large difference between English and Chinese is that there is something far more satisfying about writing characters and the work that goes into them compared to typing them, and I just don’t feel that same difference between hand-written and typed English.
And I want to show my gratitude in her for introducing this technology – risograph printing – to us, though I still don’t fully understand it, but I can kind of get the idea. The technique of using a piece of paper on top of a lit-up screen is a technique that I see the students use a lot.
Though I haven’t mastered the skill of drawing not to mentioned on a tablet. But I totally get the frustration of enjoying the easy modification the digital writing/drawing brought us meanwhile suffering the agony of different layers and the technical issues it bring along with it. Compares to that, pencils seems a lot more lovely sometimes. Just like many educational technologies we have now. We know they can help us and do things in a more efficient way if we know how to use it properly, however, often enough that we don’t really want to spend so much time to learn how to do that. And more and more I feel like I’m trapped in tech debt, which is something I don’t want to see for the future of ed-tech however I don’t know how to change it.
Maybe together we’ll just have to do many trials and errors to customize our edtech ecosystem.