Amy Tingstrom

I am an artist, designer, and teacher of both.

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@KaliMoran14 @Ms_Millar_ Is tech free, inexpensive, or expensive to purchase rights to use it? We need to think about all of our resources as teachers, (especially budget depending on where/what we teach). Would the same/better be achieved using low tech at lower monetary/time/landfill, etc. cost? #ed109

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@Ms_Millar_ Thank you, Taylor. I also took art therapy courses in my undergrad, so I do try to strive to encourage students to put thought and care into their artwork. It means a lot that you noticed that! The creation of artwork is as much about the process as it is the end result. #ed109

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I love art history & learning about cultures & teach from that perspective a lot. It seems natural to think about technologies (charcoal, pottery wheels, Adobe Photoshop, etc.) & ask students to consider the limitations & tradeoffs of each medium they use in my class. #ed109

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As an art teacher, I view fine arts as a chance for students to (sometimes) unplug and explore the depths of their creativity. I also view specifically visuals arts as an opportunity to teach students about art history, and thus, the history of technology. #ed109

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@callmeMsGeo Yes, especially the part about it will likely, "reinforce existing biases against racial and religious minorities."

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https://t.co/S1p24mIihT
Andrew McAfee's Ted Talk linked at the end of this article is great too. McAfee's right, it all smacks of science fiction like people have said throughout history about new tech. I agree that tech is NOW developing exponentially, unlike in history.
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@danielpfinney In my undergrad program, I had an art history professor who worked her weekends for a suicide hotline. An old-school, pre-cell phone suicide hotline. I wonder how the ever present technology we have today would compare to my professor's landline suicide hotline in that regard?

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@danielpfinney It's a catch 22. Well, I found this article amazing, perplexing, and frustrating. Technology is it's own limitation and trade-off all rolled into one. I wonder how many adolescents (or anyone) thinking about suicide would actually use their tech to reach out for help? Truly.

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@Ms_Millar_ @jerridkruse It makes me imagine scenarios like what might have been (or may yet to be) if we choose otherwise or do not choose at all, like the Allenby B. 2015 article.

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@Ms_Millar_ @jerridkruse This, "As the internet, smartphones, and social media have been introduced into our lives as solutions to problems — they have permanently changed the discourse of society." makes me think of a fork in the road of history.

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One of my favorite quotes from the Ted Talk: McAfee on 3rd grade transition from Montessori school ("exploration") to public school ("preparation for office clerk work"), " I felt like I was being sent to the Gulag!"

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@danielpfinney Yes, I would think so, Dan.

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I like using the Kindle app to read garbage mystery novels...Not trashy, but probably not educational either. 1.) Probably not the best for my eyesight on my phone screen. 2.) I like being able to set the font/type size. 3.) I like the dictionary for etymology.
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@PerlaTeach4 @KaliMoran14 I agree. I can't stand shortening my ideas to fit into social media! It makes me feel suffocated.

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@ashleydawn2916 Oh, my goodness, this is so true! If we know we can always "just Google it," why worry about embedding the information into our memory bank?

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@BritMichael Brittany, I agree with this. I too like to share photos of my dogs on Instagram, but I do not enjoy the full-frame cropping options. They are limited and usually, I end up having to leave out visual information I deem important. It irritates me every time!

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"Simply because technology permits particular activities to be done doesn't mean that they should be done." (Olson & Clough, 2001)
Spell Check! I have a love-hate relationship with spell check. My stance (for students) is generally it's a crutch that hobbles them.
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Tingstrom_Concept Map_EDUC 261 https://t.co/27r9DGSxYy #bubblus
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@BritMichael Interestingly, if I'm doing it casually for pleasure, my brain actually "feels good," but if I'm doing it with a specific task in mind, like researching for school and toggling between devices and technologies to find information, it sometimes overwhelms me and I get a headache.