allan carmichael
Managing Increasing Assessement Data in Education
In many jurisdictions, British Columbia in particular, there has been a shift in K-12 assessment towards proficiency-based assessment and reporting. This has required teaching staff to change not only the manner in which they teach, but also the manner in which they assess. Rubrics that reference the learning standards (core competencies and curricular competencies) are […]
Learning Mobility
Many digital mobile technologies have all contributed to diminish the requirement for learning to happen in some constant, physical space, a centre of learning. Learning can happen anywhere, at any time. It is becoming less and less of a necessity for learners to physically come together to engage in collaborative learning processes, and learning can […]
OCR on Mobile Devices – Vision Engines
Although it has been around for a few years, I recently encountered Photomath by Blink. This app leverages the company’s OCR technology for mobile device cameras (now called a Machine Vision Engine) to input a math equation and “instantly” solve it, and display the solution as multiple steps. Originally designed with an on-device math engine, […]
Here at the bookends of my Met journey
I’m starting my last term in the MET program, with this course and 530 my last two courses to complete. This course is a bookend for me, as I completed 522 with David in my very first term. I think that was a fortuitous occurrence, as the learning curve for the course delivery was high. […]