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MOOCs for Field Sciences

A3- MOOCs for Field Sciences

I have really enjoyed this semester learning about Mobile and Open Learning, and have especially enjoyed learning more about MOOCs, citizen science, augmented reality, and 5G capabilities and the affordances (and limitations) of each of those. For my A3 I wanted to build upon the work of my fellow ETEC 523 classmates and combine my […]

A3 – Mobile Companions

What do you think about mobile companion robots? I used Adobe Rush, Vllo, and Canva to create my video and used my iPad and my iPhone to record audio and video clips. Here it is, enjoy! For those of you who have not seen the movie, Big Hero 6, here is a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3biFxZIJOQ&ab_channel=WaltDisneyAnimationStudios For […]

A3: MoneyWise Kids – a future product

As a CEO of an Ed-Tech company, providing financial literacy learnings to young children, I am inspired to develop this online-to-offline smart device for young children to learn and also to practice their financial knowledge in reality, anywhere, any time. I name this future product “MoneyWise Kids(MWK) bank”. This is an IA robot for children […]

A3: The Future is Flexible

A3: The Future is Flexible

Hello everyone! For my A3 project, I was inspired by a place based learning project I am working on in ETEC 510, where our focus is having students go out into the natural environment to learn. I wanted to explore how flexible screen innovations could be applied to online and blended classrooms to create unique […]

A3: My Instrument Collection

A3: My Instrument Collection

For my forecasting project I decided to theoretically create an AR mobile app called “My Instrument Collection”. The app provides an opportunity for user to virualty play instruments from all around the world with the help of QR codes, virtual reality microlearning, and NFT’s. How it works Watch a short video on the instrument of […]

Am I — *cough* — sick?

Am I — *cough* — sick?

You’re probably familiar with one tell-tale sign of a respiratory illness – a rough, throaty, distressed voice that can tell you when someone you’re close to is unwell (or, conversely, needs to be carefully mimicked when you call your employer to say “I…*cough*… don’t think I can come in today”).  But evidently, our voices may […]

A3 – The Digital Reading Screener

A3 – The Digital Reading Screener

My future prediction project is aimed at helping teachers better understand the science of reading and identify reading difficulties which in turn will provide faster and more targeted intervention so that all students can learn to read. This work is currently being done with paper tests if it is even done at all. By harnessing […]

A3 – The Future Classroom

We are currently in the whitewater of cultural and professional change, catalyzed by the exponential technological growth (exemplified by Moore’s law).’ Even the nature of change itself has changed, and instead of intergenerational change, there are now fundamental and disruptive changes in job markets occurring each decade as a result of technology. Technology is transforming […]