{"id":316,"date":"2020-09-12T19:47:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T02:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0167\/?p=316"},"modified":"2020-09-12T19:47:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T02:47:32","slug":"martin-wellers-25-years-of-ed-tech-a-book-club-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0167\/martin-wellers-25-years-of-ed-tech-a-book-club-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Weller’s 25 Years of Ed-Tech: A Book Club – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

You Might Need Coffee For This One…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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In Martin Weller\u2019s 25 Years of Ed-Tech<\/em>, 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.<\/a><\/p>\n

I set to work reading, researching and learning the \u2018best practices<\/a>\u2019 in gifted-ed. The common thread that I kept coming across was that these students needed to be challenged, and they need to interact with like-minded peers (Wallace, Sisk & Senior, 2018). With these students ranging from ages 8 to 18, my first problem was; what does that even look like? These students are spread across the district, spanning many buildings and schedules. Enter Web 2.0, blogs, videos, e-portfolios, and personal learning environments (Weller, 2020).<\/p>\n

As Weller discusses quite eloquently through these chapters, and as Dr. George Veletsianos discussed with me in an earlier blog<\/a>, connectivism as pedagogy, or at least as a set of principles (Weller, 2020).<\/p>\n

Weller (2020), discusses the varied use of e-portfolios (p.102), and I am hopeful that by addressing the explicit teaching of e-portfolios, and how and why they can work for a student at a young age, we will see an upturn in their usefulness in the future.<\/p>\n

References<\/span><\/p>\n

Wallace, B., Sisk, D. A., & Senior, J. (Eds). (2018). The SAGE Handbook of Gifted and Talented Education<\/em>. London, England: Sage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weller, M. (2020).\u00a025 years of ed tech<\/em>. Athabasca University Press. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15215\/aupress\/9781771993050.01<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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