by Alisha | Sep 18, 2021 | Uncategorised
I am not a gamer, and yet… Too often, we hear the lament that school is boring, learning is hard work and no fun, and online learning in particular is overwhelming and isolating. Sasha Barab is a professor at Arizona State’s university whose work explores...
by Alisha | Sep 11, 2021 | Uncategorised
I appreciate Weller’s overarching theme of the integrality of people in the topic of educational technology in his book, 25 Years of Ed Tech. We quickly lose perspective in the face of exciting new technology, and before we know it, the cart is before the horse, or...
by Alisha | Sep 4, 2021 | LRNT 523
I think there is a fine grey line between an altruistic sense of boundless opportunity and a chaotic “Wild West” style void of authority afforded by technology in the field of education. This is exacerbated by the curious amnesia noted by Weller (2020)....
by Alisha | Aug 18, 2021 | LRNT 522
I appreciate the perspective that Dr. Veletsianos shared regarding the fallacy of the cult of technology in our culture, and particularly in education. I refer to the cult of technology referencing our obsession with and idolization of technology, heralded as a...
by Alisha | Jul 4, 2021 | LRNT 522
Good research questions bear many of the traits of good questions used within the models of project-based, problem-based, and inquiry-based learning. In these learning models, the questions are sometimes referred to as challenging, essential, or driving questions....
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