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Futures Impacting the Classroom Present

So the final paper for LRNT 523 I have been working on predicts some of the changes my institution will navigate as mitigation strategies for climate crisis impacts become more prominent. One of the things I talk about in that… Continue Reading →

Future Considerations – Post Secondary & Tech – Activity 6

The themes I am working with in my upcoming speculative futures paper look at the predicted impacts to my rural post secondary institution as Canada takes steps to mitigate climate change. I consider myself a hopeful cynic. As this is… Continue Reading →

Frameworks for Choosing Tech – Rabbit hole Part 1

So the entire conversation about the drawbacks of the LMS as a solution for learning technology has got me thinking quite a bit about my own institution and program and choices we make in adopting certain technologies and not others…. Continue Reading →

Jessie Loyer in the Field

Jessie Loyer is Cree-Métis and is part of the Michel First Nation. She works as an academic librarian at Mount Royal University on Blackfoot – Treaty Seven Territory in Calgary. One aspect of her work is researching how edtech and… Continue Reading →

Relevance and Contradictions

Immediate Relevance – Blogs and E-Portfolios Since embarking on MALAT and looking at the design of our program. I have wondered about blogs as spaces for students to develop e-portfolios coming out of the program I teach. We talk around… Continue Reading →

Constructivism & ED Tech

One of the chapters that was most interesting to me in Weller’s 25 Years of Ed Tech is the focus of chapter 4 on constructivism. Weller looks at the integration of constructivism into the education technology realm that he says… Continue Reading →

George Veletsianos – A reason to smile, a reason to research and a reason to be free.

A Reason To Smile Something I  could not help smile about is George’s response to the question asking him to make a prediction about the future of education technology. He says there is no way to hold people accountable when… Continue Reading →

Back to School (Again)

I am back in school! This time grad school through Royal Roads in the masters of learning and technology program (MALAT). I do have a blog that is part of that program so I am taking some time to pull… Continue Reading →

Post Pandemic Teaching Clothes

Coming out of the pandemic where I taught online for over a year I am now reluctant to get dressed for work. The only acceptable solution has been making some kind of uniform. I have decided to get a few… Continue Reading →

Experimenting wth Social Learning Theory

For an upcoming assignment I am looking at social learning theory. At its core the theory is about how we learn in community and how we perceive  one another in a community and then align our behaviours and actions with… Continue Reading →

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