The message is clear, there should be fuzzy, permeable, and changeable borders between isolated organizational spaces, where innovation can emerge and seep through the organization, without the bottlenecks and filtering of artificially imposed hierarchical layers. Dron, J.(2014) At the beginning of my teaching career, I found myself teaching 8 to 10 classes a day in a country I knew very little about, and with very little experience. Out of fear and having only one other teacher at my school who was also in their early 20’s and was also very inexperienced, we relied on the teachers’ guides and lesson plans. After sometimes teaching the exact same lesson in the exact same way, it became clear that every class was different and that no matter how much you prepared or lesson planned, there was no guarantee that the lesson would yield the results our class had hoped for. I...

  My hope for this course is to be better aware of the choices I make when designing lessons and have more confidence in those choices. I am very curious about how I can create space in my lessons for reflection that is useful. I know that innovation plays a huge role in my work context but I have never really had a chance to evaluate it in a formal way. I tend to create a very personal system that I refine, remix and reorganize over time. A lot of it is trial by error and the changes I make tend to be small but over the years can be quite large. Just writing this paragraph has made me realize that I have rarely had to verbalize how I design lessons, let alone write about it. I have tended to operate with a lot of freedom and within a bubble, seldom knowing what other instructors are doing.  I decided to choose one of the examples provided and introduce myself through a poem. This...

In this essay, I present a fiction-based persona that illustrates how emerging technologies have impacted society and education in the not-so-distant future. How has technology intersected with HoYeon’s life during her first year in Canada and how has it compounded her learning? This short story is an insight into the challenges some newcomers and refugees face when trying to access services and education in Canada. How might we as educators better understand how they interact and interface with different technologies?    Case Study: HoYeon Jung  HoYeon is the daughter and only child of North Korean parents who labored as farmers on the outskirts of Kanggye City, in a province that borders China. Her parents never completed high school and there were no computers in their home. North Korean smartphones started appearing in 2020 but only for the government elite in Pyongyang. During the...

A fiction-based persona that illustrates how emerging technologies have impacted society and education in the not-so-distant future. How has technology intersected with HoYeon’s life during her first year in Canada and how has it compounded her learning? This short story is an insight into the challenges some newcomers and refugees to Canada face when trying to access services and education. How might we as educators better understand how they interact and interface with different technologies?  Case Study: HoYeon Jung HoYeon is the daughter and only child of North Korean parents who labored as farmers on the outskirts of Kanggye City in a province that boarders China. Her parents never completed high school and there were no computers in their home. North Korean smartphones had started appearing in 2020 but only for the rich. During the Great Famine of 2022, she slowly watched...

Presented by: Ashley Breton & Sam Kirk Robots and the Future of Learning Debate Participants: Hiroshi Kobayashi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo If you have any questions or comments for us, please write them in the comments section below.  Links to the references used to make this video can be found at the end of this description box.  Thank you for sharing your time with us. Want to learn more?  Check out these emerging companies in the educational robot market: Emotix (India), FANUC (Japan), Hanson Robotics (China), Photon Entertainment (Poland), Robolink (US), ROBOTIS (South Korea), and SoftBank Robotics Group (Japan). And, don’t forget to take a look at the Civil Law Rules of Robotics proposed by the European parliament to regulate the use of robots and their employment (see “License for Designers” and “License for Users” section located at the end of...