Personal Assistants in Classrooms
I found the frontier poll topic of “Siri and Her Siblings” very interesting and I thought I’d find more related resources. Although personal assistant technologies like Siri, Google Home, and Alexa were not designed for educational purposes, they are already being used for at-home learning. Here is an article on how it’s affecting education: https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2020/09/what-schools-need-know-about-voice-assistants. […]
Being Mobile – Online K – 12 (Tony Bates).
In my 2020 Fall course for ETEC 565B, I had a blast with one assignment, following Tony Bates Twitter Feed. I thought, well I wonder what he is up to right now? Sure enough, I found a fresh tweet 22 hours old since the time I posted this. It is a delightful post from Contact […]
Airbeam: Mobile Crowd Sourced Science
Airbeam is a unique combination of innovation, mobile technology & crowd sourcing. Have you ever wondered about the quality of the air you are breathing every day? How about during forest fire season or in an area of high industrialization? Most commonly air quality data-supplied to the general public is obtained from large, stationary testing […]
Mobile in a World with AI
Have you ever thought what the world may look like with AI? Some of the leading thinkers of our day have much to say in how AI will change the way we think, work, and live. Though we cannot change how AI learns we can make decisions as to which courses of action we are […]
Data-Driven Journey Mapping
The technology I want to focus on for my Week 2 Content Curation assignment is Journey Mapping tools. Some examples include Ethnographic Insight, Crazy Egg, Clicktale and/or MouseStats.
Using mobile tech as a storytelling tool for preschoolers
Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs are often wary of mobile technology. Privacy concerns among parents are high and research shows children under the age of 2 should avoid screen time altogether. Additionally, administrators and teachers may not be familiar with current technology and so even less likely to wade out into a potentially controversial or […]
Plickers for Quick Formative Assessment
Plickers is a free mobile app that can be used solely with a mobile device or with a mobile device and web browser. Much like Kahoot, Plickers is a formative assessment tool that teachers can use to poll students, review content or hold practice quizzes. Unlike Kahoot and other digital quiz platforms, Plickers does not […]
AI Adaptive Learning Pandemic Response
The web resource that I found aligns with the frontier poll topic of ‘Learning in a Time of Crisis” https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec523/2021/01/06/learning-in-a-time-of-crisis/‘. This article, released by Berkeley News, discusses research that focuses on the holes in education, with K-12 and post-secondary learning moving online during Covid. Issues that Lempinen (2020) brings up, include the lack of direct […]
AR Escape Rooms: The Power of Leadership, Teamwork, and Critical Thinking Skills
The most commonly requested fieldtrip over the past 4 years of teaching from my students has been to go and do an escape room. When they ask me to do this, I respond with: “Well, why don’t we make our own here?” Going to an escape room is extremely costly, though it has many incredible […]
Mobile Technology, Frictionless Learning and Global Citizenship
This post is about what could be. Above is a PDF article from the Social Studies Review, published in 2018. I found it during my last class ETEC 500. Yes, it’s a PDF. Yes, it’s from 2018/2019. Yes, I have some reservations about VR. I don’t feel it’s frictionless nor do I think it’s mobile. […]