Hello everyone,
My name is Joel Flanagan, and I am excited to join all of you in discovering the content in ETEC 523: Mobile and Open Learning. I am currently taking my 9th and 10th courses in the Master of Education Technology program.
I am currently on leave from my school to complete my degree. I plan to return to teaching at a high school in New Brunswick in September. The courses that I primarily teach are technology and business to grade 10 – 12 students.
I took this course for several reasons. The first was seeing mobile devices’ adaptability and flexibility in education. I have utilized them before and had great success. Other times, I have found it to be less successful. Although students generally enjoyed enhancing their learning through devices, more practice and understanding could help my pedagogy in this aspect.
I am easygoing and have lots of fun with my soon-to-be four-year-old. We’re been focused on swimming and gardening lately. I also enjoy playing and collecting video games; I enjoy single-player action, adventure, and platformers the most.
I am truly excited about the opportunity to learn and grow with all of you in this class!
Joel
Hello Joel,
We meet again and outside of Sam’s course haha. I am also taking my 9th and 10th course in MET, we’ll both be done by the summer! Looking forward to hearing more from you/digitally seeing you on our class blog.
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Clarisse
Hi Joel!
Nice to have you in this course as well.
To your points, mobile devices can be used as great tools in education, if they are used correctly. I also hope that this course will shine a light on how we can use mobile devices to help students be successful instead of them just being a hinderance to their learning. Also, what can we do as teachers, to teach and enforce appropriate phone usage in the classroom.
Jasmine
Sorry! The last sentence should have a question mark, not liking that I can’t edit on here.