month September 2019

Written by Sanjay Pottinger & Susan Nassiripour For this activity, we partnered with a colleague with the goal of exploring the implications of abundant content for lifelong learning. Our task was to identify a topic that we were both unfamiliar… Continue Reading →

Through reading Ertmer and Newby (2013) and Merrill (2002), the two articles introduced me to a variety of instructional theoretical approaches that can be applied to my day-to-day work. To select one one instructional theoretical perspective to align with was… Continue Reading →

After reading and comparing Robert Reiser’s article Part 1: A History of Instrumental Media (2001) and Martin Weller’s Twenty Years of EdTech (2018), Weller concurs Reiser’s viewpoints. Both articles focused on the history of technology within education; Reiser reviewed the… Continue Reading →

Jennie Magiera is the Chief Program Officer for EdTechTeam, an organization that is dedicated to using technology to improve education, as well as being a former elementary school teacher. She is an advocate for technology in the classroom and empowers… Continue Reading →

Carrying out research on the history of educational technology (EdTech) provided insights on how the past has greatly informed present day education. I found it interesting that throughout history into the present day, there does not seem to be one… Continue Reading →