{"id":462,"date":"2022-09-18T14:46:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T21:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0262\/?p=462"},"modified":"2022-09-20T20:46:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T03:46:40","slug":"assignment-1-introduction-to-catherine-cronin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0262\/assignment-1-introduction-to-catherine-cronin\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment #1: Introduction to Catherine Cronin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0262\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/244\/2022\/09\/OER.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-464\" width=\"461\" height=\"345\" \/><figcaption>Capturing Catherine\u2019s ideas in her Keynote at OER16 from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/u\/43ccffb51ae8?source=post_page-----cf27f08181c8--------------------------------\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Mathers<\/a>.<br>Image Credit:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a>&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bryanmmathers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Thinker<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aupress.ca\/books\/120290-25-years-of-ed-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\">25 Years of Ed Tech<\/a>&#8221; by Weller (2020) with\u00a0&#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/25years.opened.ca\/2021\/01\/27\/between-the-chapters-oer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Between the Chapters: OER Podcast<\/a>&#8221; (2021) influenced me to consider how educational technology plays a role in justice. Thus, I will share Catherine Cronin&#8217;s significant contributions to the field of educational technology. Catherine Cronin is an open educator focusing on social justice approaches (Cronin, 2022). Cronin&#8217;s contributions to educational technology include open-access publications such as;\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17439884.2022.2041830\" target=\"_blank\">Feminisms, technologies and learning: continuities and contestations<\/a>;\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/jime.open.ac.uk\/articles\/10.5334\/jime.565\/\" target=\"_blank\">Framing open educational<\/a>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/jime.open.ac.uk\/articles\/10.5334\/jime.565\/\" target=\"_blank\">practices from a social justice perspective<\/a>; and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/aran.library.nuigalway.ie\/handle\/10379\/3807?show=full\" target=\"_blank\">Theorizing<\/a>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/aran.library.nuigalway.ie\/handle\/10379\/3807?show=full\" target=\"_blank\">progress: Women in science, engineering, and technology in higher education<\/a>. In addition, Catherine Cronin&#8217;s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/catherinecronin.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>\u00a0captures an extensive collection of scholarship and creative works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cronin\u2019s open-access approach is necessary to the field of education and technology. First, decades of research show inequities in access to technology (Bali et al., 2020). Poor, minority and female students have less access (Bali et al., 2020). In Cronin\u2019s collaborative research, such as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/jime.open.ac.uk\/articles\/10.5334\/jime.565\/\" target=\"_blank\">Framing open educational&nbsp;practices from a social justice perspective<\/a>, Cronin applied feminist thinking and challenged assumptions to promote justice through open education practices (Bali et al.,2020). Second, Cronin contributes to conversations about digital literacies (Cronin, 2022). Recently, Cronin was the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amicalnet.org\/sessions\/cronin-keynote\" target=\"_blank\">keynote speaker for the annual AMICAL<\/a>&nbsp;(an international consortium of universities) conference (Cronin, 2022). The keynote presentation emphasised the need for critical digital and data literacies so that students can develop agency &#8211; as learners, creators, and collaborators (Cronin, 2020). Catherine Cronin has made significant contributions to the field of education and technology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bali, M., Cronin, C., &amp; Jhangiani, R. S. (2020). Framing open education practice from a social justice perspective. <em>Journal of Interactive Media in Education<\/em>, 2020(1), 10. <a href=\"https:\/\/jime.open.ac.uk\/articles\/10.5334\/jime.565\/\">http\/\/doi.org\/10\/5334\/jime.565<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cronin, C. (2022). <em>Catherine Cronin: Independent open educator, open researcher<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/catherinecronin.net\/\">https:\/\/catherinecronin.net\/<\/a> &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cronin, C. (2022). <em>Critical digital literacies: Developing agency and sustaining hope in troubled times<\/em> [Conference presentation]. AMICAL Consortium. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amicalnet.org\/sessions\/cronin-keynote\">https:\/\/www.amicalnet.org\/sessions\/cronin-keynote<\/a> &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pasquini, L. (Host). (2021, January 21). <em>Between the chapters: OER (No. 11)<\/em> [Audio podcast episode]. In&nbsp;<em>25 Years of Ed Tech<\/em>. Transistor. <a href=\"https:\/\/25years.opened.ca\/2021\/01\/27\/between-the-chapters-oer\/\">https:\/\/25years.opened.ca\/2021\/01\/27\/between-the-chapters-oer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Weller, M. (2020).<em> 25 years of ed tech<\/em>. Athabasca University Press. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15215\/aupress\/9781771993050.01\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15215\/aupress\/9781771993050.01<\/a> &nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;25 Years of Ed Tech&#8221; by Weller (2020) with\u00a0&#8220;Between the Chapters: OER Podcast&#8221; (2021) influenced me to consider how educational technology plays a role in justice. Thus, I will share Catherine Cronin&#8217;s significant contributions to the field of educational technology. Catherine Cronin is an open educator focusing on social justice approaches (Cronin, 2022). Cronin&#8217;s contributions &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0262\/assignment-1-introduction-to-catherine-cronin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assignment #1: Introduction to Catherine Cronin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58,59,57,26],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt523","tag-cronin","tag-justice","tag-open","tag-open-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0262\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0262\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0262\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0262\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0262\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0262\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0262\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0262\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0262\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0262\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}