Dear mob –<\/p>\n
The Emerging Markets Poll results have been analysed and you all should now have received an email introducing you to your A2 assignment and EMT team-mates. \u00a0Please let me know immediately if you haven’t received your A2 assignment. \u00a0Here is the roll-out of the Emerging Markets covered in this session of ETEC522:<\/p>\n
Week 5: \u00a0 Apps<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 6: \u00a0 Cloud Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 7: \u00a0 Visual Intensive Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 8: \u00a0 Personalized Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 9: \u00a0 BYOT<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 10: \u00a0Digital Textbooks<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 11: \u00a0Touch, Gesture & Voice<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 12: \u00a0Open Learning Environments<\/strong><\/p>\n I believe I managed to match just about everyone with their preferences, soI trust you’ll enjoy the A2 experience. \u00a0The first groups are up in just a few weeks, so don’t delay. \u00a0The private group area and other tools are ready for you to dive in, if you wish, but use any tools that are most productive for your EMT.<\/p>\n I guess my only overview comment on the poll is that I suspect too many of you are voting with your heart rather than your head, which is an even greater danger when considering ventures and markets. \u00a0 How you feel about something is often unrelated to how viable it is, or how valuable it might be to you.<\/p>\n For example, very few people even looked at the “Learning Analytics” market, despite how viable it is, probably because the traditional view is that these technologies relate to a remote, numbers-driven ‘big brother’ future for education that few people can warm to. \u00a0 However, if you just flip your perspective and imagine how such technologies could be put in every teacher’s hands to make their classrooms run more smoothly, or into every student’s hands to give them just-in-time responsive guidance, the value horizon may seem different.<\/p>\n For a couple of years now I’ve wanted to insert a “Robot Teacher” emerging market in the poll, but I know it would be a wasted effort because it would never get positive votes, despite the fact that automated tools and software could be fabulous teacher’s aides rather than teacher replacements. \u00a0 Of course, I could change the titles and descriptions of any emerging market to make it more palatable for you, but that’s not the point – I’m trying to encourage all of you to look beyond the pipe-dreams and myopia of technology developers to distill out learning potentials that wouldn’t occur to them.<\/p>\n Thoughts welcome,<\/p>\n David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear mob – The Emerging Markets Poll results have been analysed and you all should now have received an email introducing you to your A2 assignment and EMT team-mates. \u00a0Please let me know immediately if you haven’t received your A2 assignment. \u00a0Here is the roll-out of the Emerging Markets covered in this session of ETEC522: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[311,9170],"class_list":["post-7490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-a2","tag-instructions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7491,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions\/7491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}