Sam Charles (He/Him/His)
ETEC 523 A3 Mitigating cheating in a digital age
At every level of education, technology has enabled dishonest students to plagiarize, copy, find and share solutions. “The anywhere/anytime access these devices provide to vast web resources, sprawling social networks, and real-time communication has spawned a new kind of cheating in K-12 environments — an easier, tech-enabled version of bad behavior that is as old […]
(A2) VIDEO PRIMARY: Video as an assessment tool
With a goal of breaking new frontiers in the usage of video within educational contexts, our group decided to explore the concept of video as an assessment tool. Most of the available literature relates to video as a delivery tool for disseminating knowledge, so our goal in presenting video as an assessment tool is to […]
Is there room for another?
After searching high and low for a mobile education technology app, and discovering that many (that interested me) were already included in the Mobile Education category, it prompted me to explore what the mobile education technology landscape currently looks like. According to EdSurge, educational technology companies raised more than $2.2-billion through 130 investment deals in […]
The Rise of Misinformation
The rise of misinformation has perhaps increased within the last four or five years. During the pandemic, we have seen an increase in the number of people who are accessing their news from unconventional or non-traditional sources. Back in 2014, Borkovich and Bree-Vitelli investigated a similar rise in what they called “blind trust, naivete, or […]
360° video (immersive video)
The technology required to produce 360° video, also known as immersive video, is becoming more affordable. In a world where synchronous video conferencing and asynchronous video-based instruction is ubiquitous, immersive video is another engaging tool for connecting students with information. The technology can even be edited, and some cases recorded, at a low-cost by using […]
When technology becomes ubiquitous, why would we want to stymie its momentum?
There are few places in the world where you can’t find a mobile device. In North America, at nearly every level of education from pre-school to post-secondary institutions, technology plays a role in some form within the pedagogy. “This new paradigm of teaching and learning also raises plenty of challenges new and old, from developing […]
Profile: Sam Charles
Hi everyone! My name is Sam Charles, and I reside in Kelowna, BC which is the unceded territory of the Sylix (Okanagan) Peoples. After twenty years working in radio, film and television interspersed with jobs in corporate video, I made my way into the post-secondary realm. Initially as a video producer, and now as the […]