The Media Debate in Current Events
By Kristin Beeby and Sandra Norum The great media debate between Clark and Kozma highlights the significance of critically evaluating the learning media. Their arguments are relevant today especially in light of the quick pivot to online education during the global pandemic. The following articles will be explored through their perspectives. Article #1 Summary The article, How Technology will transform learning in the COVID-19 era by Utkarash Amitabh discusses how higher education...
Read MoreKaren Spärck Jones (1935-2007)
I Think I Would Have Liked Her. I wish I could have spoken to her. Karen Spärck Jones. But she died in 2007, from cancer at the age of 71. Both she and her husband were computer science professors at Cambridge University. He died in 2003 and was seemly an intelligent and worthy man. The New York Times ran his obituary and listed the two awards he obtained in his field. When Dr. Karen Spärck Jones died in 2007 with six awards under her belt and over 200 publications, the paper was silent until...
Read MoreMartin Weller’s 25 Years of Ed-Tech: A Book Club – Part 2
You Might Need Coffee For This One… In Martin Weller’s 25 Years of Ed-Tech, the years 2002 up to and including 2011, are quite relevant to my practice today. I have recently been tasked with providing a program/support to the gifted students in my K-12 school district. We are a relatively small district with approximately 6000 students, and we have had no gifted-ed program or supports for the last 15 or more years. In June of this past year, I was tasked with creating a Gifted Program. I...
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Grab Your Glass of Wine, and Pull up a Chair. The idea that Dr. George Veletsianos suggested we look at reading the book 25 Years of Ed Tech by Martin Weller (2020) for our course, as a ‘book club,’ resonated with me. Thus, my takeaways from these first eight chapters are in the form of some statements on what I was thinking as I was reading, as well as some questions I have. I am hoping that some (or all) of my questions might be addressed in the comments section. First, I’d like to preface...
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