Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2012 Comments Off on From Previous Week – June 17th
A few thoughts regarding the intricacies of CMC. Even before I had finished the assigned reading this week, I had some conflicting thoughts about the success of a CMC learning environment. Specifically, how successful it would be for a group of learners that I have had the opportunity to work with for the majority of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 24th, 2012 Comments Off on CL and GL dissected
Co-operative versus group learning Initially, I had thoughts about identifying the similarities/differences between group and co-operative learning. Then as I finished the readings and remembered all the activities in my classroom that I had thought were legitimate co-operative learning experiences and it turns out they probably were not, I changed my mind and decided to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23rd, 2012 Comments Off on Week 3: What is radical constructivism and what has been my experience with it
What is radical constructivism and what has been my experience with it? From several accounts, radical constructivism, appears to be the evil twin of a rather benign philosophy. And truth be told, that also sums up my first experience with a formal introduction to constructivism as pedagogy. I can still remember sitting in my science […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18th, 2012 Comments Off on Week 2 – Unpacking assumptions
I had a great time with the quiz that we completed this week which basically asked… What kind of Science teacher are you? As it turns out I’m not the science teacher I thought I was (according to their definitions) Week 2 Post: Maybe I’m alone in this but having been an educator dealing with […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 28th, 2011 Comments Off on Canadian Aboriginal Education and Technology: A Constructivist Approach
If you have a minute, take a look at the accompanying media presentation for an overview of technology’s possibilities with constructivism in the education of Canadian Indigenous youth. The transcript for the verbal portion is available here: ETEC521 submitted transcript