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What does this have to do with my free inquiry project, which was embroidery? Embroidery brought me face to face with the mysteries of the universe. What? Huh? How? Alysha, that sounds ridiculous! It may sound ridiculous, but it’s… Continue Reading →
In a previous post, I talked about aphantasia — the inability to conjure mental images — which I think I experience a mild form of. How inaccessible or faint is my visual imagination, though, and can engaging in a visual… 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 →
“Fibre and cloth are a universal part of human life. They fill an almost endless number of roles in our practical, personal, emotional, social, communicative, economic, aesthetic, and spiritual lives.” — Beverly Gordon The Ukrainian Fabric of my Family My last… 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 →
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 →
Before proceeding with this first blog post, we expect you to consider your privacy preferences carefully and that you have considered the following options: Do you want to be online vs. offline? Do you want to use your name (or… Continue Reading →