As a group, we (Anita Fahrenbruch, Amanda Dunn, Jeff Clemens, Joyce Wimmer, and Alastair Linds) four current articles focused on the technology benefits in the classroom and opportunities they use to leverage those in education. Each article chosen offered new perspectives to dispute the concepts proposed by Clark (1994) that media has no impact […]
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Brian Hamm
CCO Retrieved from http://pixabay.com/en/door-change-new-beginning-board-673000/ For this blog post I wanted to introduce Brian Hamm from Edmonton, Alberta, an educational designer of 1:1 and blended learning spaces. I met him during an EdTech Summit in the West Kootenay in the spring of 2018. The motivation to select Brian Hamm, for this blogpost of important individuals in […]
Assignment # 2 Early criticisms of technology use for pre-school age children
CCO http://Pixabay.com/en/children-laugh-laptop-vietnamese-1822471/ Diving into this topic was revealing and perspective changing for me, here is the spreadsheet with my choices for academic resources to help me write my paper: assignment2-annotationTemplateAnita The introduction of technology into society brought many concerns about media use in early childhood classrooms. Wartella and Jennings (2000) propose concerns about the introduction […]
Basket Weaving 101
By Neptunerover [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons Authors: Anita Fahrenbruch, Constantinos Hatzigeorgiou (Dino) and Joyce Wimmer We wanted to test the internet on its capability to produce usable learning content on a subject neither of us had any knowledge about. We ended up choosing basket weaving as a topic for […]
Moving along the continuum of behaviourism, cognitivism and constructivism
For this blog I was asked to read the articles by Ertmer and Newby (2013) and Merrill (2002), examine how the perspectives of the articles are reflected in my work and how I identify with the theoretical position. My work as an educator is rooted in the early years, specifically working with children in the […]
From Pictographs to Virtual Reality
Watch the timeline on Storytelling – A history of educational technology: From pictographs to virtual reality References Ahansal, M. (2015, April, 16). History of Educational technology [slides]. Retrieved from https://www.slideshare.net/meeshakhan510/history-of-educational-technology-47090932 Barret-Forrester, B. (2013, Nov. 6). The History of the Pencil. Retrieved from: https://aasman.ca/blog/the_history_of_the_pencil Facebook (2018). Junior Dragon’s Den. Virtual Reality of the Kootenays, College division […]
Technology in Education and Instructional Design
The history of technology in education includes many perspectives. In “A History of Instructional Design and Technology: Part I: A History of Instructional Media” and “Part II: A History of Instructional Design” Reiser (2001) shares his viewpoints on the topic dating back to the early 20th century. Weller (2018) in his article “Twenty Years of […]
Memories about technology in education
Today I want to take a trip down memory lane to look at the history of technology in education. My explorations take me from my teenage experiences in my birth country Germany to my home country of Canada. Unable to resist the temptation to compare these two countries in their use of technology in the […]
Three Theoretical Frameworks
A new website created with my team members during the MALAT 2018 program, check it out
The research question once again
This week I have been listening to an audio recording by George Veletsianos (2018) answering questions about research. He addressed the development and writing of research questions, and what tools he uses when conducting research. He shared his thoughts on how research is distributed using social media, and what he feels are important aspects to […]
