A3 – FirstYearU: Mobile Calendar App + Well-being
As students, your time and mental health are valuable. What if you had a calendar that could help protect and balance both? For my A3, I created a prototype for a mobile calendar app called FirstYearU, targeting students in their first year of post-secondary studies. The project deliverables include a mobile website pitch and an […]
A3 Voice-Activated Collaboration Tool (VACT)
Hello Hello! My future cast is inspired from some of the conversations that came out of my A2 on podcasts. I began thinking about how listening to podcasts, lectures or any type of audio material typically happens in silo. I wanted to consider ways that peer-to-peer interaction could be blended into the experience. I came […]
3D Holograms: a prospective future aspect in education?
We live in a 3 Dimensional world, so it would make sense to relate to objects and things in 3D. What if the young minds of the future, our students, could learn in our classrooms using 3 Dimensional holograms? For my A3, I have created 3 short videos: Part 1- Taking 3D holograms mobile: […]
A3 – Personal Data: Should You Be Worried?
Hi all! Personal data security isn’t something new but since the pandemic, more activities are moving online. With the increasing use of mobile devices, the risk of personal data breach isn’t something to overlook. For this project, I look into relevant topics including data (in)security, data economy, and also a new ways of empowering users […]
News Online
I’ve been thinking a lot of late about how we’ve managed to get to a place where we’re so divided and so extreme in our political opinions. And I think I’ve come to a reasonable hypothesis. There’s a lot to be said about cable news and their role in the division, and all I’ll say […]
A3 Mobile Games and Technology for Primary Classrooms
Mobile Games and Technology Changing The Way We Teach As a primary teacher I have noticed that the students who are coming into our classrooms come in with knowledge that is far superior to the students who have just graduated from our primary… Go to this Sway For my A3 I have created a presentation […]
A3 – Teach Assist: The Virtual Teaching Assistant Teachers Need
For the A3 Forecasting project I wanted to focus on something that is pertinent to myself and many other educators; the work, life balance of being an educator. Artificial intelligence is everywhere and will only continue to grow over the years to come so we might as well use it to its fullest potential. For […]
A3 – The Future of Satellite to Mobile Phone Communications
Shortly before our section of ETEC 523 began in the spring there was a significant breakthrough in satellite to cellphone communications. Recalling some of the recent stories I heard from my students about growing up without cell reception in the Outback of Australia, in coastal BC towns or in rural Hawaii I wanted to explore […]