Mental Health & Education in 2030 by Kara Gillard (Personal Collection). Shared October 30, 2022 The Fundamental Restructuring of Education Leads to Positive Mental Health Outcomes for Society (Speculative Futures Essay) With a history of fragmentation within the education system and stacking global inequalities regarding access to education, it is not surprising that in the year 2030, education looks a little different – a...
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Photo by Singkham: https://www.pexels.com/photo/clear-light-bulb-planter-on-gray-rock-1108572/ To convocate with your high school class in 2030, you are in grade 4 now, in the year 2022. There are many concerns and even more opportunities awaiting the naive nine-year-old that is accustomed to mobile learning spaces and technology-driven learning. The formal grade K-12 years have become just that, a formality; albeit a formality with...
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Nicole Croft & Rebecca Coyle debate the pros and cons of digital badges. Posted October 4,...
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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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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 MoreConnectivism – Link to Workplace Relevance One lesson with immediate relevance for me is chapter 17, ‘Connectivism’, Weller (2020) suggests connectivism is a set of principles rather than a pedagogy and “Key to the connectivist approach is the belief that knowledge is distributed in a network, and learning is a chaotic process (p.116)”. I work with many subject matter experts across various fields, and many of our solutions come...
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