Matt Wise
A3 – The Adaptive Learning Coach
I’m fascinated by the space where the digital portfolio, digital personal assistant and adaptive learning meet. If you watch any of the Iron Man movies and listen to Tony Stark’s artificially intelligent assistant Jarvis, you can clearly see the potential for an assistant that you can speak to naturally, can synthesize and prioritize massive amounts […]
A1: Seesaw: Authentic Authorship in the Early Years (and beyond!)
I chose to explore some of the ways that Seesaw can be used as a tool to support and encourage independent authorship with early learners focusing on extending the power of the writer’s workshop model using a mobile device. Two key advantages to this tool are: Ease of use and understanding The opportunity for an […]
TED TALK review- Why Technology CAN’T fix education.
Originally posted by johnny wu on June 9, 2018 Published Dec. 2017: An interesting TEDx talk done by Mary Jo Madda a former educator turned education journalist, currently working for google in the CodeNext program. She breaks down her views on how education can’t directly fix education, but can harmonize with teachers to help improve education. Here […]
A Framework for MALL – Mobile Assisted Language Learning
Originally posted by Kate Quinn on June 8, 2018 Many of you have likely experienced teaching content (math, science, graphic design) to English Language Learners (ELLs). Many ELLs are concerned with the time it takes to learn a language; traditional ESL classes can be expensive and unrelated to students’ ultimate academic or professional goals. Studying like this […]
The drive for more productivity
Originally posted by Jo Davies on June 1, 2018 For me, when I think of mobile culture I think of the rise of productivity apps … apps to help us increase efficiency at work and at home (to do list apps, project management apps, calendars, timers – the list goes on). When I googled “productivity […]
The Potential of MOOCs for Closing the K-12 Opportunity Gap
Originally posted by sarah jones on August 3, 2018 MOOCs offer a lot of educational opportunities, but who is benefiting? My literature search on challenges and problems of MOOCs has revealed significant limitations. For a decade now, technologists have talked about MOOCs’ potential for democratizing education. I created an animation to demonstrate why the potential of MOOCs […]
Mobile Devices as Engagement Tool: Classcraft
Originally posted by Jon Campbell on February 9, 2019 For this assignment, I chose to answer in podcast form, as I tend to digest information through audio more than text on mobile devices. As this site doesn’t seem to allow embedding of SoundCloud files directly, the audio is available here For accessibility, or for those who prefer […]
A venture into Augmented Reality (AR)
Originally posted by Tovey Fan on October 13, 2019 My analysis of an emerging facet of mobility is Augmented Reality. When I read “an emerging facet of mobility”, I immediately thought of Augmented Reality as it is new, emerging, and has a lot of potentials, and it is used primarily on mobile devices. I would like […]
Greetings from Hong Kong
Hi Everyone, Excited to be getting started in the MET program here, this is my first term in the program, so I’m looking forward to both getting oriented and diving right in. My background is in Computer Science, but I’ve spent the last 12 years working in education here in Hong Kong, both as an […]