category LRNT 523

Etchells and colleagues wrote an editorial in response to a call for more policy limiting screen time for children. Individuals concerned about the lack of government oversight restricting screen time, contended that more screen time resulted in physical and mental… Continue Reading →

Inclusion in learning environments of students with disabilities, has historically been an issue in the field of education. Though pedagogical approaches to teaching and awareness of inclusive design have gradually improved over time, barriers in the learning environment for people… Continue Reading →

Click here to see my assignment 2 annotated bibliography spreadsheet exploring the  influence of edtech historically on increasing accessibility for students with disabilities.

Team Assignment: Eunice Leung, Leigh McCarthy, Sanjay Pottinger, Sherry Ruth, and Marta Samokishyn Media are “mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers our groceries causes changes in our nutrition”… Continue Reading →

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 →