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To Live or Die Learning: A Speculative Future Essay

It is June 10, 2030, and in Santon Downham, West Suffolk, United Kingdom, nine-year-old Oliver is busy in front of his computer completing his final weeks of third grade online. Since starting school three years ago, he has only finished… Continue Reading →

Activity 7: Exploring Possible Futures

As part of the MALAT program, we have focused on the many benefits of Ed-Tech, but when completing the unit 3 readings, I was struck by some of the negative environmental impacts outlined by Selwyn (2011) in “Ed-Tech Within Limits:… Continue Reading →

Video Debate: Digital Badges Render Degrees Obsolete

Video debate with Nicole Croft arguing the topic, “Digital Badges render Degrees Obsolete”

The Great Media Debate in Current Events

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… Continue Reading →

People in the field: Nichole Pinkard

When I first started in the Master of Arts in Learning and Technology (MALAT) program, one area of interest that struck me almost immediately was equity in digital learning. Early on, I came across a series developed by Stanford University… Continue Reading →

Personal Reflection: 25 Years of Ed Tech (2002-2011)

As I listened to episodes of “25 Years of Ed Tech” by Weller (2020), as well as the accompanying “Between the Chapters” episodes, that cover the years from 2002-2011, I found the most relevant lesson to be that from 2005… Continue Reading →

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