FreshGrade: The Future of Assessment
As we progress through the 21st century, digital assessment tools are gradually replacing more traditional methods of reporting. FreshGrade is a learning technology that takes on an innovative approach to student assessment. This online platform is a digital portfolio that showcases student learning. It allows teachers to interact with both students and parents to share, […]
Can we make navigating this website better?
Sometimes I get on the internet and sprial into a knowledge vortex, you click on link which naturally progresses to another and another and so on. This often happens on Wikiepedia and I reflect on this as a powerful moment being immersed in learning. Can you relate? Going through this ETEC523 blog website I sometime […]
A1 – Microlearning and EdApp
By Sally on February 8, 2019 I came across the EdApp when I was reviewing resource under mobile technology in week 2 of the course. I got curious about this app that allows us to deliver learning on the mobile. As I searched more for a mobile LMS, the concept of “microlearning” kept coming up. […]
A1 Snapchat – A case for Snapchat in educational settings
Original post by dustin hyde on June 20, 2018 Hey everyone, Scott Harkness and I have created a TouchCast video to highlight the features of Snapchat and the potential uses in an educational setting. We have posted this to the Mobile Culture, Education, and Technology forums of the Knowledge Mill because we felt the touchcast hit all three […]
Shodan: The Most Terrifying, Dangerous Search Engine in the World
Originally posted by unknown on January 15, 2017 (https://virtual.educ.ubc.ca/wp/etec523/2017/01/15/shodan-the-most-terrifying-dangerous-search-engine-in-the-world/) With the staggering explosion of the ‘Internet of Things” (IoT) , security cannot keep pace. Or rather, corporations that produce the IoT are not interested in investing the funds required to secure these things. Shodan has been described as the most dangerous search engine in the […]
Virtual Laboratories
Original post by Kamille on February 8, 2019 For my A1 assignment I chose to look at virtual laboratories. As a science teacher I know how important experiments are in helping students to grasp scientific concepts. Can virtual laboratories offer the same or a better experience when compared to traditional laboratory experiments? What benefits do virtual laboratories? […]
EPIC-Education Site App
Epic is an educational app that helps students with their reading skills. Epic was created back in 2013 but has continued to prove its importance in the online education world. Epic has incorporated many different reading assessment programs that educators use. With the assessments in place teachers can assign different books to the students at […]
Understanding learner actions + emotions: “Emototypes” tell a more complete story
By Kim Ducharme on January 13, 2019 Learning is a complex task involving and affected by a whole host of factors. Understanding a learner’s journey is even more complex. In my ETEC 500 Research Methods course, my group proposed to measure students’ behavioral, cognitive, emotional engagement through the course of a project-based STEM makerspace program. […]
PhET by the University of Colorado
I use PhET a fair bit with my classes, and have been assigning some simulations for “homework” now that I cannot do in-class lab experiments with them at this time. For the last year or so, they have been converting their Java based applets to HTML 5 versions so that the sims can be used […]
Wearable technology
Wearable technology By on August 21, 2013 Resource: The Potential Behind Wearable Gadgets Almost all wearable sensors connect to a smartphone or tablet in some way, using the phone’s data connection as its path to the cloud, where most data processing takes place. In this article, you can get a concept of the technology behind wearable gadgets. […]