Yi Chen
A3-Is Schooling Still Necessary?
Hello. This is my A3 Forecasting Project. I have reviewed growing academic works of research education occur out-of-school. Since digital technologies allow people to create and access massive knowledge, some scholars have claimed that a more comprehensive combination of education will replace the current institutionalized schooling. It is possible that one day, learning not only […]
A1- Why Does Pokémon GO Still Matter?
Hi all. In my A1 Analytical Publishing Project, I reviewed some research and implementation of Pokémon GO, a game that had been launched four years ago. The reason why I select this “old” game is because I believe this game represented a possibility of future education. I borrowed James Gee’s (2015) idea of how good […]
Smart Senors
By benson chang on January 28, 2019 In many ways, we the users of mobile phones have wasted the potential of the smartphones that have become more important to us than any other possession. Many people spend hundreds of dollars on their phones to use it for nothing more than a few basic apps, messaging, YouTube videos, […]
A1 – Emotions and Mobile Learning
By ryan.edtech on October 13, 2019 I decided to create a micro-learning experience to quickly walk you through my findings on the role and future of emotions/affective processing in mobile learning as this is something I’ve become very interested in the last few weeks. Hopefully you find it interesting! My goal was to create something concise that would be easy […]
A3 Power and Batteries: the Obstacle to True Mobility
By Yannick Wong on March 24, 2019 Inspired by my discussion of the limitations of mobile technologies in my A1 assignment, I decided to do another podcast episode talking about a tech problem that we face every day yet probably don’t think much about. Here, I discuss the importance of power storage and delivery in mobile technology […]
Virtual Reality in Education
By Jon Campbell on March 23, 2019 Virtual Reality (VR) is a ‘hot topic’ in Ed Tech right now, and the discussion is not as much ‘will it happen?’ but ‘when?’ Much of the research and test cases have been led by the industry and, in researching this post, I wanted to take a different approach and […]
Mobile Gaming Culture
By Brian Haas on January 16, 2019 Mobile games have been around since a version of Tetris was pre-installed on the Hagenuk MT-2000 mobile phone in 1994. For the first 2 decades or so, mobile games were mostly an individual experience, but with the advancement of mobile technology, games have become increasingly more social. Companies know that […]
Mobile Culture: A Worldly View
By Sarah Wong on January 16, 2019 Mobile Culture: A Worldly View As we move to the age of using mobile devices in the classrooms to aid with student learning, there are a lot of opposing views towards this idea. According to an unreviewed source, when students are surveyed about if using their mobile device would help […]
It is nice to see so many new friends
My name is Yi Chen. I am a Ph.D. candidate in curriculum studies at Western University. This is my 5th class in MET. I am really interested in the themes of how technology will reform our understanding of education. All the courses so far have been so thought-provoking. They also help me with my dissertation […]