{"id":248,"date":"2024-09-01T17:19:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T00:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru292\/?p=248"},"modified":"2024-09-01T17:19:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T00:19:34","slug":"it-was-whizzy-and-cutting-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru292\/it-was-whizzy-and-cutting-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"It was Whizzy and Cutting Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Currently, I\u2019m reading 25 Years of Ed Tech<\/em> <\/a><\/strong>by Martin Weller. Within its contents thus far\u2014specifically the first eight chapters\u2014it’s interesting to stop and seriously reflect on the years between 1994 and 2001, recalling my thoughts and feelings about educational technology during that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1994, I was in high school, a period of our lives that most remember well. It was even more significant for me, as it was the year of my graduation. When I think of educational technology, often dubbed Ed-Tech, my first thoughts are of a chemistry class two years earlier, that I had signed up for, which ended up being full. Since there were no other instructors available to create another class, they drew names from a hat and I was one of the “lucky” ones selected for a special introductory offer of\u2014you guessed it\u2014computer-assisted distance education. My school-provided guidance counsellor made great efforts to sell me on how great an opportunity this would be, using over-glorified terms like so \u201cCutting Edge\u201d and so \u201cWizzy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a wreck from the start, not only for myself but also for many of the other “Lucky Lotto Winners” in the group. In my particular case, and based on what I now know about my own learning style, and digital learning methods, I never really had much of a chance in this early \u201cyear one\u201d environment. At the time, I assumed it was mostly my fault, as others were managing to stay afloat, and I thought I was the issue in not being able to complete the class without a present teacher. In retrospect, I see that it wasn\u2019t just me, but the class itself started off flawed, in its early conception, it was pedagogically void in many of its aspects, but hey, it was very Wizzy and Cutting Edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I read through this very thought-provoking book, it seems to me that regardless of the era, Martin Weller has helped me to recognize a trend. In educational technology, in some instances we may be more excited, to quickly deliver Ed-Tech\u2019s affordances claiming \u201cWe did it first!\u201d and “Look how cool it is!”, than it seems we are to take the time to review how these new Ed-Tech evolutions, fit pedagogically; or at least it seemed so, and that was all in the past of educational technology, right? \ud83d\ude44haha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Currently, I\u2019m reading 25 Years of Ed Tech by Martin Weller. Within its contents thus far\u2014specifically the first eight chapters\u2014it’s interesting to stop and seriously reflect…<\/p>\n

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