Douglas Millie
A3: The Technological Future of K-12 Education
In this video, I imagine the future of K-12 Education to be an integrated combination of AI-powered tutors, MOOC’s and Game Based Learning leveraging mobile devices both inside and outside of traditional classrooms. Schools become reorganized by common interests instead of age alone, resulting in diverse multi-grade communities building on the automated, technological foundations. As […]
A1: Mobile Fitness Apps as Coaching Tools
With the development of smartphones, many more people gained access to handy GPS systems. Shortly after, developers began to leverage these devices for tracking hikes, runs, rides and other activities. School coaches could be leveraging these increasingly sophisticated apps with their teams. Mobile Fitness Apps My journey with mobile fitness apps began in 2013 when, […]
Moodle Apps and Themes for Mobile
For many years Moodle has been a standard LMS in the education industry. My own Moodle experience began with the delivery of online learning in 2020 with a custom implementation of Moodle called OpenLMS. For Mobile, Moodle provides apps on both the Apple and Google App Stores. The apps are an excellent way to interact […]
Cospaces Edu – Another Look
Cospaces Edu is a powerful website that enables students to explore and create VR and AR worlds. Although this website and app was mentioned in this post (CoSpaces Edu | ETEC523: Mobile and Open Learning (ubc.ca)) I think it is worth a second look. In the classroom, students can create worlds in VR that are […]
Me, Myself, and I
Hi there. My name is Doug Millie. I’m in my second semester of the MET program and am taking courses number 3 and 4. I have been teaching for about 18 years, 16 of which have been at two small, rural schools in North(ish)west Saskatchewan. I teach mostly music and band, though computers, home ec, […]