kelvin nicholls
A-3: January 1st, 1900 – The Future of Age Verification
My journey through ETEC 523 has led me down a rabbit hole of information surrounding policies concerning underage mobile users and the content that underage mobile users are consuming. For Assignment 3, I have decided to take a look at the past, present, and future speculations around age-verification mechanisms and their relationship with the underage […]
A-1: Mobile Advertising in Kid-Friendly Apps
The abundance of mobile advertising in kid-friendly apps was something that I first started noticing when my own children were using “kid rated” mobile educational games and applications on their tablets. In this assignment, I wanted to dive deep into the world of mobile advertising and what regulations (or lack thereof) exist in this world […]
A-2: Big Data
Welcome to Week 6, your Big Data stop on our Mobile Learning journey. Please start your week on big data by filling out our SURVEY. After you have completed the survey, we would ask that you navigate to our OER to explore our big data content. Within our OER, you will find multiple ways to […]
WriteReader – Write and Share Books
WriteReader is a web-based writing tool for students. This tool is optimized for emerging and struggling writers through it’s easy implementation of images, audio voice-overs, and “educator text”. The voice-over tool allows the students to record their own, personal read-aloud of their writing, giving them confidence and excitement around what they wrote. The “educator text” […]
Advertising Within Kid-Friendly Mobile Apps
Recently I have been working on persuasive writing with my grade 3/4 community, and a discussion around advertising came up. I was very surprised to hear how much exposure students have to advertising, even in a world of streaming services with ad-free content. Naively, I thought that this consumption of advertising was mostly happening during […]
Another Beginning – Kelvin Nicholls
Hello everyone! My name is Kelvin Nicholls and I am grade 3/4 teacher in Kelowna, British Columbia. I have lived in Kelowna for most of my life, but I have also had the privilege of living and teaching in other areas such as Vancouver and the United Kingdom. Currently I am working in a learning […]