The Potential of MOOCs for Closing the K-12 Opportunity Gap
Originally posted by sarah jones on August 3, 2018 MOOCs offer a lot of educational opportunities, but who is benefiting? My literature search on challenges and problems of MOOCs has revealed significant limitations. For a decade now, technologists have talked about MOOCs’ potential for democratizing education. I created an animation to demonstrate why the potential of MOOCs […]
Calm – Mindfulness
One app I find useful in the class and for myself is the Calm mindfulness app. This app is free for educators! We are all so busy on our phones, work, activities, etc… that sometimes it is nice to slow down, be present, relax, and just focus on the moment. I particularly like to use […]
Duolingo App- Languages
Originally posted by Kevin Low on June 2, 2018 Duolingo is an awesome free language app that allows the user to learn different languages in a game type of style. Some of these languages include Spanish, French, English, German and many other languages with 28 in total. This app has many type of game styles in order […]
Moblie Culture – Split Wise
Originally posted by Jennifer L on September 18, 2019. When trying to think of which app would fit under this week’s theme of mobile culture, I tried to pick an app that has changed and influenced the way I currently do things. After coming back from my trip last Sunday, my group of friends and […]
Community-driven mapping tools like Trailforks
There exist many apps out there which are heavily used and are community-driven. As I’m a mountain-biker, I will focus on cycling apps here, but a similar hiking app would be AllTrails. What is Trailforks? Think of it as google maps for off-road biking. They call what they do a “crowd-sourced database”. They primarily aim […]
Mobile Fitness Apps – Educational and personal use
Originally by Katie Cowen on January 11, 2019 Mobile Fitness Apps – SWEAT, Sworkt, Nike + Training Club, Freeletics, Fiit Mobile fitness apps have been taking over the training and fitness industry. These apps are available to download from virtually anywhere immediately giving an individualized program to follow for the experienced or non-experienced gym-goer for personal and/or […]
ELLLO
By christopher clarke on January 19, 2019 Mobile education is excellent at embracing accessibility and global connectedness. Part of accessibility is providing experiences that fit into those short sections of free time we all hopefully get throughout the day. Between busy days and short attention spans, it’s important to compress content into easy to access, […]
A3: WeChat Mini Programs: The Future of Effective, Context-Mediated Mobile Education?
Originally posted by Meghan Gallant on November 24, 2017 Motivation and Process As an educator living and working in a country where it is odd to see someone not looking at their phone, and where a phone with WeChat can allow one to accomplish an entire day’s worth of activities–from buying breakfast to doing some late-night online […]
r/futurology and r/darkfuturology
Originally posted by christopher wong on January 12, 2019 In the book Utopia is Creepy (podcast regarding book found here), Nicholas Carr writes about the how our hopes for technology have often not met our expectations. TV shows (Black mirror), books (someone is a previous post mentioned Dave Eggers’ The Circle) and popular media (articles on Wired) have […]
A1 Assignment: The Gig Economy
Originally posted by christopher wong on February 9, 2019 For my A1 assignment, I chose to focus on the Gig Economy. I have made a website and podcast which can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/etec523-gig-economy/home The website works well on mobile devices and a podcast covering the same material can be accessed from the first page for those […]