First of all I love genially, I have used it before in my French classroom (as a student resource and student project), but I have never seen it used in this format- as an interactive quiz (looked kind of like a video game), I absolutely loved it! I enjoyed the video game feel and how the story unfolded as I was playing the game and answering the questions- made it fun and unlike traditional learning. From experience, Genially is very engaging as a learning tool- I even found myself doing it more than once to see the other answers!

I like Marie's choice to embed both the utopian and dystopian narratives within the same sets of questions, and allow the user to control how to story unfolds- depending on how one answers, the correct answer= utopia, and the incorrect= dystopia. The first time I did the quiz I got all correct answers, thus my narrative stayed utopian and happy, whereas when I went back and intentionally chose different answers, the game took a radical turn towards dystopia- as paranoia, tracking, hacking, and restrictions were all around.

I love how Marie's speculative goes into more detail about the education side of things in the future and our relationship with technology from that perspective. I agree with her speculation and think classrooms will be much more free flowing, and work will take place in groups both inside and outside the classroom, in-person and online. Marie's utopian prediction for the future of education is similar to mine of flipped learning- where students learn the theory and information outside of classroom, and class time is used for collaboration, projects, hands-on experiments, interactive demonstrations, etc, with a blend of online and face to face learning.

My favourite part of your narrative was where "the first 30 minutes of every school day is time spent connecting with friends or having some down time, as students' mental wellbeing is paramount". I know as educators we have mental health awareness days or weeks and we have health lessons where we talk about our mental wellbeing, but in schools mental wellbeing is rarely actually practiced. This idea is great, I even make sure to drop my daughter off at school right when there's supervision in the morning to ensure she has time to socialize before the bell rings! I had one school that had a school-wide daily physical activity block every Thursday for 30 minutes where the whole school would dance around the halls to music to promote activity- and it was something all the students (and staff) looked forward to! Weekly school-wide events promoting mental health such as this are unfortunately rare in schools due to schedule and time constraints.

"Connectivity has been declared a human right"- I wholeheartedly agree with this speculative statement and hope that one day soon this represents reality. Although progress has made it far in reaching and connecting remote communities around the world, many still remain to be connected and thus are excluded from mainstream society.

Another one of Marie's predictions that connected with my speculative narrative was about there being an AI teacher that is available to help students (of all needs and abilities) with their homework, which was similar to my utopian speculation about AI assistants being available for all students.

I agree that this was by far the most frustrating task! I connected to Marie’s anxiety about the timer, because as it was ticking away, I felt so pressured to move through the questions and tasks fast, and being unsure of how much time I had left- as the timer would only say hurry up or time is ticking- made me even more stressed! Even once I realized that this anxiety was ‘false’ as there was no time limit or restriction, each time the notification popped up, my heart would still start beating a little faster. In Marie’s post, she questions why a time limit would be required… and this made me reflect on why time limits are imposed at all on online sites or when we are asked to share personal information, and I think the reason is to confuse and pressure us. I agree with Marie that it could also be to ensure we "would not take note of all that the website is asking for (perhaps even too much information)." I agree and definitely felt that this site was asking for too much personal information- I was uncomfortable sharing, so I falsified my data!

Like Marie said, "the more information given the more the company can package it up and sell", which unfortunately is the sad truth with the worst part being that most people don't even know when and what personal information they are sharing. And the saddest part, those that do know, don't care. This mimics Marie's thoughts when she writes, "we have seen how we are constantly being manipulated and mined for information and yet most of us haven’t deleted out social media accounts. Does this mean we accept it?" I think the answer is yes, and maybe people are convincing themselves that ignorance is bliss and as long as they ignore it and pretend it's not happening, that makes it okay. Because bottom line, admitting this is happening and the conscious awareness that would go along with that, is tough. As Tufekci (2017) argues, once we understand how these systems operate, there's no ethical/ moral way we can look the other way, "we need a digital economy where our data and our attention [are] not for sale to the highest bidding authoritarian" (Tufekci, 2017). Anytime we are using social media, algorithms are deciding what feeds, posts, pictures, and videos we see, therefore "organizing how we function and... controlling what we can and cannot do" (Tufekci, 2017). As far as I'm concerned, by choosing to continue using those platforms without demanding more transparency and privacy, is choosing to accept it and allow it to happen.