Virtual Life Saver
Originally Posted by Stéphanie M. on 11 Sep 2019 Using virtual reality in medical education can provide alternative learning environments for busy professionals. Removing barriers to mandatory CPR and AED training and recertification for students and working professionals would help keep compliance levels high and help save lives. Virtual CPR v.1.7 by Virtualware is a mobile […]
Naloxone Training App
Originally Posted by norah smith on 14 Sep 2019 According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, between 2016 and 2018 the opioid crisis was responsible for the deaths of over 11 500 Canadians. Ontario and British Columbia see the highest number of deaths, but consistently across Canada, the majority of these deaths were accidental. In […]
Mobile Technology in Correctional Service Canada
Originally Posted by ttrembl on 23 Nov 2019 Hello, Here is a link to my forecasting project that examines the current and forecast technological state for Parole Officers with CSC. As you will read, a lot is needed to make Parole Officers jobs more efficient and technologies exist to aid in those efforts. https://trumantremblay4.wixsite.com/website-2 Enjoy! […]
W04: How Do Mobile Technologies Influence Instructional Design Choices?
“… the concept of mobile education or mobile learning is still emerging and still unclear. How it is eventually conceptualized will determine perceptions and expectations, and will determine its evolution and future. There are different stakeholders and factors at work in this process of conceptualising mobile education and the outcome is uncertain.” –Traxler, J. (2009) […]
W04: How Do Emerging Mobile Technologies Change Learning Contexts?
Today’s world can be said to be a more connected than ever before. With communication technologies constantly evolving people have more opportunities to reach out to each other in different ways. The educational practice of today is not immune to this change and is afforded new options for curriculum delivery. Topic #1: Given the […]
W03: Fixing The Mobile Culture Gap In Education
Given that mobile culture is evolving more rapidly every day and that young people are leading this evolution (don’t hesitate to argue with this statement if you disagree), there is a growing cultural gap between ‘learner’ and ‘teacher’ demographics that will inevitably become even more challenging to effective education. What symptoms of this cultural syndrome […]
W03: What Disturbs Me About Mobile Culture…
There are lots of prospectively disturbing things about mobile culture, so I will launch this conversation with something personal that scares me silly. I’m a cycle commuter, and I can attest to the fact that despite several years of fines being in place for distracted driving, a disturbingly large portion of humanity can’t resist texting, talking & […]
W03: A Pleasantly Surprising Trend in Mobile Culture…
My father read the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover – several times. He cared about the value of having knowledge with him, so consuming it was his only option. The benefit for him was about social status, as few could match his memory. So one aspect of mobile culture that I was originally surprised […]
W02: If Every Learner Had Just One Mobile Technology It Would Be…
I once had a company that built the only wireless laptop in the world designed exclusively for K-12 education. This was years before the “one laptop per child” movement began, but at that time I really did believe that if every child in the world had something that worked like a networked laptop, truly transformative […]
W02: What I Hate About Mobile Technologies…
Is it that they’re not waterproof? Is it that they’re still so disruptive to traditional social interactions? Is it that you’re a cyclist (like me) & you expect to be killed by someone texting while driving? Mobile technologies are far from perfect, and perfection is almost certainly a pipe dream in any case. INSTRUCTIONS: Read […]