{"id":368,"date":"2022-09-02T18:28:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/?p=368"},"modified":"2022-09-10T17:05:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:05:19","slug":"lrnt-523-activity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/lrnt-523-activity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LRNT 523: Activity 2- Reflections on 25 Years of Ed Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"618\" height=\"337\" data-src=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-02-at-5.47.35-PM-1.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"371\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-02-at-5.47.35-PM-1.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/?attachment_id=371\" class=\"wp-image-371 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-02-at-5.47.35-PM-1.png 618w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-02-at-5.47.35-PM-1-300x164.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 618px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 618\/337;\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\"><strong>Remember this?  Photo source: https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/manage-site-search-like-it-is-1996<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My knowledge of the history of education and technology is minimal. &nbsp;I remember in 1994 being part of the first year of students at UVic to receive a school email account, so the start of the textbook (Weller, 2020) seems apt to me, and my technology experience in education beyond word processing. &nbsp;I dropped out, and until I had a laptop and a smartphone in the mid-2000s, technology as we use it today was not a fundamental part of my daily life. Thus far, the reading content has been new to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The consistent theme or preference for face-to-face and traditional modes of education presented in chapters I have read (Weller, 2020) is not shocking because we are still seeing educational institutions struggling with this shift during and beyond the pandemic twenty-plus years later.&nbsp; As I read through the early days of ed tech and various chapters (Weller, 2020), I can see how the technology needed to be less cumbersome, accessible and user-friend for people to adopt.&nbsp; However, I do wonder why resistance to change is prevalent now, when in was demonstrated as early as 1999 that students wanted an opportunity for flexible online learning (Weller, 2020).   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it because many instructors (even now) are subject matter experts (SMEs) employed as educators but are unfamiliar with educational theory and practices (Weller, 2020) that benefit the learning experience? &nbsp; Is it the fear of technology and\/or lack of ed tech digital literacy?  Is it that institutions do not want to invest the funds into developing their offerings? Maybe it is a bit of all of these things.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I adopted numerous best practices and ideas from my online courses and revised them to suit my needs.  I wonder if you need to experience a well-designed online class with openness to embrace educational technology and tap into the 4Rs (now 5) (Hilton III et al., 2010).&nbsp; Is the experience of well-designed online education needed to scaffold the resisters into the ed tech realm? &nbsp; I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>References<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-indent: -40px\">Hilton III, J., Wiley, D., Stein, J., &amp; Johnson, A. (2010). The four \u2018r\u2019s of openness and alms analysis: Frameworks for open educational resources. <em>Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning<\/em>, <em>25<\/em>(1), 37\u201344. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02680510903482132\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02680510903482132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weller, M. (2020). <em>25 years of ed tech<\/em> (1st ed.). ACP &#8211; Athabasca University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My knowledge of the history of education and technology is minimal. &nbsp;I remember in 1994 being part of the first year of students at UVic to receive a school email account, so the start of the textbook (Weller, 2020) seems apt to me, and my technology experience in education beyond word processing. &nbsp;I dropped out, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/lrnt-523-activity-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LRNT 523: Activity 2- Reflections on 25 Years of Ed Tech&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt523"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}