BrainPOP
BrainPOP is an educational application with over a thousand short animated movies for K-12 students, together with quizzes and learning activities, covering the following subject areas: Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, Engineering and Technology, Health, and Arts and Music. During our time in remote learning, I’ve been using BrainPOP Jr. instructional videos in Language […]
Does Behaviourism Theory Mesh with Mobile Learning?
Author Unknown, Originally published on September 25, 2013 Originating with Skinner, Behaviourist theory proposes the analysis of observable and measureable behaviour (Standridge, 2002). If a stimulus is repeated often enough, Behaviourism argues that the subject can learn a corresponding response whenever the stimulus is experienced. As an example, think of the mobile phone. Jordan, et […]
Storybooks Canada – The languages of Canada
Original post by christopher clarke on January 9, 2019 Storybooks Canada is a free educational resource designed through the UBC Faculty of Education. Check it out here: https://www.storybookscanada.ca/ Its goal is to promote literacy and language development in homes, schools, and communities through storytelling. The resource has been created based on sound research and focuses not just on […]
Technologically ‘rich’ vs. Technologically ‘poor’
Original post by Alice Wong on September 17, 2017 The one thing I dislike about technology is the wide technological gap between individuals. While some families or schools are technologically ‘rich’ (i.e. having physical devices, skills and attitudes etc.), some families and schools are technologically ‘poor’. This can be problematic in schools where teachers are expecting students […]
A1 Phones in post-secondary lectures
Originally posted by kristie dewald on February 10, 2019 From my first year of teaching in 2007, my colleagues and I have been asking each other, “what do you do? Do you allow students to use their phones in class? Oh, you ban them altogether?”. It’s a point of frustration and confusion. Some comments have already […]
A1: Measuring the Success of a MOOC
Originally by sarah jones on June 23, 2018 For my A1 topic, I choose Kadenze, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that has not been around as long as other notable MOOC providers like Coursera and Udacity. I created a videocast using the TouchCast Studio ipad app. All media and text in the video is […]
A1: Mobile Crowd Sensing
originally posted by cbrumwell on February 17, 2016 Crowdsourcing information is not is not a new idea. The Christmas Bird Count – an annual mid-winter migratory bird census – dates back to 1900 and boasts tens of thousands of contributors. Collecting initiatives go by many names, like: Participatory Sensing, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Citizen Science […]
SketchBook: Fine Arts STEM and STEAM
Originally posted By michael cebuliak on June 10, 2018 I wish that my choice of app be considered in amongst a myriad of other mobile apps for artists, or those that wish to foster the development of creativity. SketchBook is a rather robust app that lets one play around with brushes, canvases, perspective, layers, filters… It’s pretty […]
Mobile technology is warping our memories…
Originally posted By vivien kamhoua on June 10, 2018 … How sustainable are the cognitive changes that mobile technology is bringing into education? With mobile devises, the need and pressure to memorise information is fading. Instead of memorising information, learners tend to retain how they can retrieve these information by storing them, or creating a secure path […]
Podcasts for Formal Education
By Tanya on June 24, 2018 For my Analytical Publishing Project I am focusing on using podcasts in formal education. To share this information with you I have gone meta and developed a podcast to give you this information, which includes their relevance to the mobile world, research on benefits and drawbacks, some snippets of interviews with an […]