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Reflection on the Principles of Leadership

In my experience leading a team, I have found that there is a huge benefit in allowing team members to work towards their own strengths. When looking at my plans for the future, I was never one to seek power… Continue Reading →

Soft Skills in Technology Learning: A design challenge

Overview   The idea that people working in technical fields (software development, IT, etc.) lack social skills is a very common stereotype. There can be truth in this assumption, though many in the industry say this is changing or needs… Continue Reading →

Is Change Innovative?

One of the questions proposed in LRNT 524 was: “Is all change necessarily innovative?” I found this to be an interesting question when looking at the word innovation itself. To be innovative there is a need to be creative and… Continue Reading →

LRNT Assignment 1 – Design Thinking Process (Jeff Clemens and Phyz Wilkes)

How to effectively engage students in active participation in an safe online learning environment without being constrained? Through the Stanford d.school design thinking process (DTP) we were able to look at ways to effectively engage students in online learning through… Continue Reading →

Agile Instructional Design

The more I learn about instructional design the more I am able to see how it’s evolution is something that will never be fully complete. As we learn and discover new ways that content can be delivered (while materials are… Continue Reading →

Audio Debate on if Video Games are appropriate for Education

Jeff Clemens and Amanda Dunn LRNT 523 – Assignment 3 – Royal Roads University   References Adachi, P. J. C., & Willoughby, T. (2017). The link between playing video games and positive youth outcomes. Child Development Perspectives, 11(3), 202–206. Danforth, L. (2009)…. Continue Reading →

Activity 7 | Team activity: Pinpoint the media debate in current events

As a group, we (Anita Fahrenbruch, Amanda Dunn, Jeff Clemens, Joyce Wimmer, and Alastair Linds) reviewed four current articles focused on the technology benefits in the classroom and opportunities they use to leverage those in education. Each article chosen offered… Continue Reading →

Dr. David Wiley (@opencontent)

When looking at Open Education Resources (OER) for a separate assignment I found the work done by Dr. David Wiley. In reading more about him I saw that his work has had numerous effects not only on the teaching aspects… Continue Reading →

VR in First Hand Learning

Among the newer and exciting technologies being used for education today is virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). For the purpose of this report we are going to focus on VR. This technology allows learners to be immersed in… Continue Reading →

Principles of Instruction

When reading through the three different theoretical positions on learning, I found that I initially gravitated toward cognitivism in that it focused on what is known and how it is learned but felt that there was something missing from my… Continue Reading →

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