Advanced Studies in Educational Technology & Media
Learning from Place: A Return to Traditional Mushkegowuk Ways of Knowing is an article that discusses the importance of learning from place. This article is based on a research project dedicated to “Mushkegowuk Cree concepts of land, environment and life in Fort Albany First Nation”. There is a story of youth, adult, and elders going …
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Continue readingThis weeks debate topic was, “openness and sharing is unfair to our kids.” On the pro side is Ashley Osachoff and on the con side is Dryden Clark. During the prevote I voted for disagree, I never really thought about how openness could be so bad for students. So during the prevote Ashley had 11.1% of the …
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Continue readingAwwh, the week before the break is here and we are all eager to have a hopefully relaxing break to recoup from the debates and mini-lessons we have been checking off the list throughout EDTC400. This week’s debate was very … Continue reading →
Continue readingThis week’s debate took on a subject that seems much different than those prior. After reading the articles provided and watching the videos that my classmates made, I still find myself on the fence. Mostly, I believe that there needs to be proper precautions to make sharing student’s work okay. Perhaps a little off topic, … Continue reading Openness and sharing is wrong… (?)
Continue readingShould teachers focus on teaching material that can be easily googled? Sydney and Aurora did a nice job debating both sides of the argument. As for me, I personally think that there needs to be a balance between the two – but we’ll get to that. Sydney’s arguments (Teach Non-Googleable material): Students will not need … Continue reading Just Google it!
Continue readingWeek 3 of the Great EdTech Debate has come and gone and let me tell you, this was an interesting one thanks to the contributions of my EDTC 400 classmates! This week’s topic of debate focused on openness and sharing in schools and whether or not it is unfair to our students. My initial thoughts … Continue reading To Share Or Not To Share?
Continue readingWhen we first started the debate this I was sure that I wanted to create a transparent space where parents could see any of the work that their child had created and that we could share that openly. But little by little I began to question my philosophy. One of the articles Dryden shared with …
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Continue readingThis past weeks debate focused around the topic argument for an against the following, “Schools should not focus on teaching things that can be googled: Agree or disagree?”. While each of my classmates debated I found myself agreeing with b…
Continue readingHello everyone! So it is the week before the break and I am crazy busy. This week in EDTC 400 I will be hosting my very first debate. I am pretty nervous, but excited to see how it goes. For my EDTC 400 debate, I chose the topic “Openness and sharing in schools is unfair … Continue reading Before My Great EDTC 400 Debate
Continue readingThis was the main topic for our debate in EDTC 400 this week. The debaters were Sydney McGrath (pro side) and Aurora Lay-Street (con side), and both presented great information to their arguments. For the pro side, Sydney argued that Google can be a us…
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