Blog Post #8

For my website design, I did my best to utilize all of the design principles. For example, I made sure to use contrasting colors on all of my backgrounds and text so that it was easy to read. One of my pages had a beige background, so the text I put on it was dark grey. Also, to utilize repetition, I kept the font the same for all headers/paragraphs and the same color text as well. I found aligning my designs to be difficult sometimes because of the way the website has you put certain things in certain areas and it was frustrating at the beginning, but once I got the hang of it I was able to utilize the alignment principle well. Overall, I liked this assignment because it allowed me to act as if I was a teacher and I think it will prepare me for the future. One thing that I disliked however is that Weebly does not have an undo button, so if you delete something there is no way of recovering it. This made me nervous while I was designing my website because I did not want to accidentally delete my work. 

I think a good and fun way to integrate QR codes into the classroom is to do an activity where students use them. This could be like having stations where they are doing research or playing games online. Each station would have a QR code they have to scan to access the website they are intending to use. Another way to use QR codes is to have students create one themselves. Students could use them in their projects to share links that they want people to use, maybe on something like a digital poster using Canva.

Case: An ethical problem you might encounter when using ChatGPT to create lesson plans for kindergarten science could revolve around the accuracy and appropriateness of the content for young children. Since ChatGPT generates responses based on vast amounts of data, there's a risk that it might provide information that is either too complex for the age group, culturally insensitive, or even factually incorrect in some cases. For example, ChatGPT might generate a lesson plan that includes concepts or language that are not developmentally appropriate for young children, or it might suggest science experiments that could be unsafe without proper adult supervision. 

Solution: The way that I would address this ethical issue is to look over any lesson plan that I had ChatGPT generate for me. I would ensure that the information is not only factually correct but also age appropriate. As of right now, I could only see myself using AI for inspiration as how to structure a lesson rather than strictly using the information generated by AI. This is because what AI generates might not align with the curriculum that I am supposed to teach. I believe it is completely unethical to use AI to create a lesson plan and then to use it without looking over it or putting any thought into it because our job is to teach to the needs of our students, not to just read off what a computer told us to say.