ETEC 540

Speculative Future Scenario 1: Public education functioning within the flipped classroom model Inspired by the Leading Lines podcast episode entitled The Future of Digital Literacies (2019), I created a short lesson plan for a science lesson based on the speculation that education will veer towards the flipped classroom model. Topic: Science – Biology Part 1 – (At home) Students load the background knowledge tutorial on their home device and watch/listen. This eliminates lecture time by the teacher in the classroom, and allows in-person time to focus on collaborative exercises, exploration,…read more

  One of my favourite shows is called ‘The IT Crowd’ – the premise is that two IT ‘nerds’ work in the basement of a big corporation and their manager has lied her way into the job, not really knowing anything about computers. At one point, one of the guys (Moss) convinces boss Jen that he has come into possession of ‘the internet’ for her to show off at her head of department meeting to impress everyone. While it is somewhat laughable to imagine someone thinking ‘the internet’ is as…read more

The Golden Records were LPs sent into space on the Voyager aircraft in 1977 (incidentally the year that I was born). The LP would have been the medium of choice in that era for music. It made me wonder a) if any other life forms that found them would have the technology medium available to play them b) will that technology medium still exist (i.e. a record player) if they are found hundreds of years from now? If we were to launch a 2021 version of the Golden record into…read more

I tried to keep the New London Group’s key concepts of hybridity and intertextuality in mind while redesigning my ‘What’s in my Bag’ task. As they described, ‘hybridity highlights the mechanisms of creativity and of culture as-process particularly salient in contemporary society’ (p. 82). Intertextuality ‘draws attention to the potentially complex ways in which meaning (such as linguistic meanings) and constituted through relationships to other texts (real or imaginary), text types (discourse or genres), narratives, and other modes of meaning (such as visual design, architectonic or geographical positioning)’ (p. 82)….read more

Well this turned out to be a challenge! I had never used Twine before and wanted to try it out. I learned by trial and error and came to discover I had technical difficulties adding photos or music to my story. I carried on without and tried to make use of the other features available such as special text styles, colour, and movement options to keep the story interesting. In a couple of places I added (INSERT IMAGE OF X, Y, ETC HERE) so the reader could get the idea…read more

I used the ‘dictate’ option in Microsoft Word to record my five minute story. I relayed my experience of moving provinces and schools at 13 years old without much previous thought about what I would specifically talk about. I set a five minute timer on my phone and spoke until it went off. The transcript is posted below first, with my analysis beneath it. Story: when I was 13 years old my family decided to move from the East Coast of Canada to the West coast of Canada my dad…read more