Photo used from https://medium.com/@supercrossking/strengths-and-weakness-of-mcluhans-technological-determinism-fdbc2eb33234 Technology has drastically changed since 1994, with advances that had not yet been imagined at the time that Clark (1994) and Kozma (1994) wrote their respective papers. Weller (2020) outlines the numerous technological advances that have been introduced since, such as e-learning, blogs, social media, and...
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Graduate Cap by Kara Gillard Application Due Date: Monday, November 7, 2022 During the month of October and as the thesis application became available online, MALAT students began to refine their area of research and are encouraged to consider which stream they wish to explore in their second year of the master’s program. Below I reflect on my personal experience that led to my application and proposal submission to the thesis...
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Nicol Turner Lee Accessed from: https://www.brookings.edu/experts/nicol-turner-lee/ Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee has extensive expertise and knowledge in several areas spanning the social sciences, policy, education, and technology. Dr. Turner-Lee dissects some of the root causes of inequity and social stratification in technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. More specifically, she speaks about the risks and...
Read MoreNicole age 4, vintage cassette player Good morning everyone, Nicole here. I’m not sure where all my teen pictures are but found the earliest tech-related picture I could find. I looked up the tape recorder and they now call it vintage lol. I later was upgraded to a recorder with a microphone (watch out) and before I knew it, I was rocking a walkman and rushing home after school to use our first IBM computer, (did anyone else make...
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I added this poster board to my wall in the spring and started adding stickies as things came to mind, I quickly started using it to highlight areas to explore as I start to think about my thesis application and the time and research that needs to go into developing a plan and answering the big “so what’s that mean for ed tech” question that will be used to validate my research question alongside many other brilliant...
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