Reflecting on this past year, I’ve had the opportunity to explore and grow my digital skills in a lot of ways. I created and opened my imaginations in ways and forms that i never thought of. In the beginning of this class, I didn’t know how to use any tools or apps, I didn’t even know how to answer some questions, but after time I learned and grew a lot. Now I can say and tell people how I created my own website, how I did so many more things and all by myself.

I started not knowing anything, just asking for help to my friends and teachers at lunch. I didn’t know how to do anything or how to answer anything but after time I started to pay more attention to the directions, I started to try harder and to learn more. When i couldn’t understand something I did my own research on google or YouTube, trying to find a way to do my work better and in a way that I was going to feel confident with.

This class has helped me a lot. I learned a bunch of things like how to make a 3D object like a keychain model. I learned how to make a sticker and some more things. I also learned about new apps and how to use a bunch of tools while playing a little bit with the apps and tools around.

Reflecting on my change on my digital skills, I am sure that I have growth a lot, not only on learning but also on my way of reflecting. Having to reflect every time and answering to some questions has made me take time to have some critical thinking and different way to think which is now helping on my social and daily life.

This year Flex Planner App has helped me a lot. In the beginning of the year I was in other school in Vancouver and when I changed to Terry Fox  there were a lot of changes and thing that I didn’t know about like “My Weekly Planner”. My weekly planner helped me a lot to organize my week to study and do my assignments. With it I didn’t get confused on where to go because you could see the name and number of a class, making it easier to understand. I’m a person who forgets every thing and having this app made a big change on my daily basics having a big impact and making my days more organized.

Microsoft Teams is another app that has helped me a lot on organizing my days, homework, talking to teachers, taking feedback, and more. This past year I learned a lot of thing but specially on how to use Teams. Teams became my to-go app for not just submitting work but also for receiving feedback. I think teams is an easy app and easy to understand. For me, it was very easy to hand in my assignments, to check my grades and feedback from teachers.

Microsoft Excel is an app that I didn’t really use throughout the year. I would only use it for my digital learning assignments but in my opinion is really easy to use. You just click “Edit” and you can start typing wherever you want. I used Excel very often, it was easy for me to use it, it made me develop experience and ability to open more my opinions.

My favorite activity in digital learning was the Circuit Design Space & Machine. At first I didn’t know how to use the platform but after playing with the tools I got better and developed a lot of skills like creativity and flexibility. This platform made me have an open mind and to create my own design and message. After all it was easy even though at first it was not so easy.

Reflecting on the discussions about cyberbullying, Ai and my Digital Footprint. I think cyberbullying is a very hard topic that should be more talked about. There are people that get bullied online everyday and just because is online people think that it doesn’t matter but it does because the person keeps getting ideas to a point where they don’t know how to react. Cyberbullying IS bullying and no one should experience it. Ai is something that is normalized now days, it can be used as good and as bad. Ai is good to research questions and more but if you know how to use it because Ai is now used to cheat on assignments and test making students and people in general not learning anything and just copying what they find which isn’t right. All of this just takes e to point where i know that I have to be more careful with what I post, do or say on social media. Social media can be nice and fun but it can also be harmful.

This year I have done well, I have faced a lot of challenges like changing houses, schools and even cities but even though it was hard at first it made me realize how different and positive I can be, that is not always bad and that I can always make it better. This year a made a lot of friends, I have done pretty well in all of my classes and now I feel more focused. This semester I really like my classes but specially science, it makes me feel smart and I can easily understand everything, specials physics. I am always ahead and I do my own research trying to learn more and more. I also have the best teacher, his name is Chastkavich. He explains everything pretty well, makes learning fun and gives full lessons.

Last semester was a little harder and I just had so much in my mind, I didn’t do that well in my classes and I was very distracted, my social life was off and I didn’t want to help or do anything but this semester I encouraged myself to be better and I did. Last semester I had math and I didn’t really understand or learn a lot. My teacher was nice and explained but I just found it confusing, specially finding the side of a triangle. It wasn’t so hard but it took me a while to understand.

This year I have also been volunteering and helping my family, friends, community and surroundings. I volunteered in Vancouver, specially in a place called “South Vancouver Neighborhood House”. It was really fun and nice. I also started playing basketball again because I stopped for a while and now I feel more active and with more energy.