To kick off the three-day workshop for the C3 Catholic Communication Collaboration (C3CON19), Los Angeles archbishop José H. Gomez said during his morning prayer that “the C3 conference is one of my priorities in the archdiocese. It is important for us to be there for the evangelization of the digital continent.”
C3 project manager Paul Hernandez said the goal of the event is not simply to impart more knowledge about how technology interfaces with current teaching methods, but also to look at how to spread that information through their schools on various levels.
“We wanted to make sure we didn’t include the word ‘Tech’ in ‘Bridge The Gap’ because technology is here and it’s already happening, and we don’t have to emphasize or focus just on that anymore,” said Hernandez.
“Also, when you say ‘tech’ in this instance, a principal might say, ‘Let me send my tech director or computer teacher.’ We want to take all those walls down. This is for everyone in the archdiocese.”
Dozens of sessions were offered at the eighth incarnation of C3, which due to expanded participation this year moved from the campus of Loyola Marymount University to the new site in the San Fernando Valley.
Sherry Hayes-Peirce, a Redondo Beach-based Catholic social media strategist, gave a presentation called “Teachers Using Technology to Reach the Digital Native.” She said, “what does our faith tell us about sharing the good news? We have to meet people where they are. Our young people are in technology.”
The C3 program has been funded with resources by Sprint, which gave everyone in attendance a new BBC micro:bit, a programmable pocket-sized mini-computer students can connect to a smartphone or iPad.
Full story at Angelus News.
I don’t get why this is important or useful at all. And it’s the eighth year of this thing? Techno educationese and gobbledygook. Waste of money.
The way people learn today, especially school-age children is very different from the way we older folks learned. I remember teaching 7th graders how to use the Dewey Decimal System to find books in the library. Today the kids can get all the information in the world on their wristwatch. It’s hard for those of us who are technically naive to understand why this is important. Remember when schools had “computer rooms” where kids went to learn how to use them? Today, by age three or four they understand all that. Visit a school someday that uses an interactive whiteboard, displaying student work, google data, scans from books, and a gospel verse all at once. If we want to teach the faith today, it will be through technological media, in part.
Kids today are more ignorant and less skilled than previous generations. Fact. And technological overreliance is the reason. Fact.
The color of the signage completely blends into the base color of the van. I hope the content is not as bland.
I was one of the poor teachers required to attend this useless conference. The keynote speakers seemed to lack any understanding of the human person in light of Catholic teaching. When will the Archdiocese allow Christ to reign in the classroom and in the educational system at large?
From the C3 website: The C3 Resources Specialist can help identify needs, troubleshoot and solve problems and plan and implement technologies that will help you accomplish your mission more efficiently, effectively and at no cost. They are available to serve all parishes, schools and religious habitats in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Ha ha ha ha ha. What the heck is a religious habitat? hahahahaha this program is so silly. Bureaucracy at its worst, trying to sound self-important and self-justifying. hahahahaha
You take your knowledge of the Faith, your devotion, your evangelicalism and use the technology to teach the kids how to spread the Faith. If you can make a gun with a 3D printer, you can make a model of the Sacred Heart or a Pieta. You can have kids pick a word like Savior or Blessed or Humility or Grace and put it on a T-shirt.How many people look up John 3:16 or Acts 2:38 because it is put out there on signs or graffiti?
For 1950+ years, saints of the Church converted souls by the millions by simply trusting in God, not technocrap. Where is the faith of our shepherds?!?!