My space for reflections, questioning, learning and growth.
The question of what is the digital culture of education currently, I believe is divided. There are those who are embracing technology and working to integrate all the amazing tools that exist, sometimes specifically for the purpose of education. However, there are also those who avoid and might even go as far as referring to […]
The task I set for myself this week was to take some pictures using my camera, and see if any of the knowledge gained through my study of the manual was helpful in my photography. In addition, I wanted to analyze the usefulness of the manual in gaining knowledge that would help me in my […]
The task I set for myself this week was to find and learn something from my Olympus Stylus 1 camera’s user manual. Since I got the camera well over a decade ago, I do not have a manual in print. So, I searched the internet for it and found one on a hub for manuals! […]
Prior to the start of the previous school year the Government of Saskatchewan followed a number of other provinces in Canada by banning cell phones in the classroom. However, this poses the question, was the ban truly beneficial, or what were the drawbacks? There are many differing perspectives to consider on the topic. First, as […]
This semester, I would have enjoyed taking on the task of integrating something new into my teaching practice, either social media or an open educational source. However, since I am on maternity leave, I like the idea of doing learning that is just for me. Initially, I thought about taking up yoga, and getting really […]
The first question posed, asks me to describe my personal relationship with social media. I fit into that category or major growth period for social media where I had a MySpace account for about 5 minutes before I was able to join Facebook in 2006, while in my first year of University. Initially, Facebook allowed […]
This is the grand finale! Throughout the course, there were several key learning moments for me. Early in the course I read in Bates text, that ‘learning is a dynamic process,’ which spoke to my personal constructivist ideas of learning. It fit with the idea that we are ‘lifelong learners.’ This is a bit of […]
For my course prototype, I worked on developing the ELA A30 course. As I said in an earlier post, this was to benefit me in the future and create something usable for me. In hindsight, this was much more challenging than creating something that I currently teach. I could have worked on adding more technology […]
For my second module, I wanted to focus on synthesizing information. Based on some of the learning that has happened this semester, I felt like this was a gap in my planning, and was something that would help my students gain a better understanding of all the content they had covered so far. There are […]
I’ve titled this ‘Interactions in a Digital Landscape’ to highlight how both I interact with the students in my classroom, but also how I have students interact with one another online. The thing about this is, that I find this both simplistic and extremely complex and challenging as a topic. It is simple in the […]