category EdTech
Inquiry and online learning have been dominating concepts this semester. The latter is obvious because all of my learning is online — how could it not be the dominating force in my education right now? Inquiry, though, has been present in… Continue Reading →
“While educational technology can have positive impacts on academic achievment, a lack of attention to the complexities of educational settings and broader social contexts often causes initiatives to perform poorly and exacerbate existing inequities across lines of race, class, and… Continue Reading →
Students Making their Own Futures Teacher Stephen Elford’s TedX talk on the value of 3D printing in classrooms offers a host of reasons for why 3D printing is valuable in classrooms and why more schools and teachers should be introducing… Continue Reading →
COVID19: Flexibility and Creativity COVID is annoying for so many reasons. It has been annoying in education — closing schools, starkly revealing the technology divide among students (and parents), over-saturation with screens…the list goes on. These annoyances, inconveniences, and frustrations,… Continue Reading →
Ask my classmates, my partner, or anyone else I know who happens to need to do any sort of collaborative work online, whether that be for work or school, and they will tell you how much I have raved about… Continue Reading →
On one side of my family, I am surrounded by educators. My uncle retired last year after teaching for 30 years — well, semi-retired as he now works as a TOC. My aunt has worked in schools in various administrative/secretarial… Continue Reading →
Is a Lack of Imagination Bad? An interesting thing that I’ve noticed about myself is that I do not have a particularly vivid visual imagination. I never have. I didn’t pay much attention to this over the years because it… Continue Reading →
Managing Digital Footprints – Why? So far in class, we have discussed digital footprints — mostly our own paranoia about those we’ve made and how they may be used against us in the future by vindictive parents, which seems like… Continue Reading →
This is going to be a running theme with this blog — I have never considered myself very technically proficient. I never had any real reason to be. My undergraduate and graduate programs were both academic, research-oriented programs in which… Continue Reading →
I have used blogs before. I had a Tumblr at some point — not quite a blog, technically “social media,” but still a blog — and I have used various blogs in different classes throughout my post-secondary education. I’ve… Continue Reading →