Katrina's Course Curios

Leading in Digital Learning Environments Leading in digital learning environments is essentially parallel to leading in many organizational environments, with one particular caveat: where change is often thrust upon some organizations, change is integral to the foundation of digital learning…. Continue Reading →

There are several attributes of a leader that are important to lead in a digital learning environment. A modern education leader must be visionary, communicative, adaptable and credible. Firstly, it is important for the leader to set a clear vision… Continue Reading →

The design case I chose to review was one that I had originally read for expansion on the topic of design cases, that I ‘couldn’t put down.’ I chose it based on my love of biking and the author was… Continue Reading →

According to Selwyn (2021), “[M]ost ed-tech endeavours are rooted in a shared sense of continuing progress” (para. 4). Nowhere is shared progress more necessary, and more contentious, than between the Indigenous peoples of northern Turtle Island, and the government of… Continue Reading →

Education does not exist in a vacuum, but rather functions within the society of which it is a part. Given the ways in which the modern world has changed, definitions of society as a larger construct and from personal perspective… Continue Reading →

By Katrina Fraser and Alexandra Samur “Centre for Educational Technology” by hanspoldoja is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Emerging in the 80s and 90s, clearly a very different era of computer and internet technologies than today, the “Great Media Debate” between Richard Clark (1994)… Continue Reading →

Professor Neil Selwyn is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University in Australia (International Science Council, n.d.). It seems that almost every article on Ed Tech that we have read has at least one reference… Continue Reading →

2009: Twitter and Social Media I found this chapter so adept at relating to the events of today that I frequently found my mind taken off into the minefield that epitomizes social media today, especially in our current state of… Continue Reading →