Lev Vygotsky’s Paradigm Chart (Used de Castell & Luke’s (1986) paradigm chart as a model; rephrased Mcleod’s (2022) article filling in this chart) Lev Vygotsky was a Soviet developmental psychologist in the early 20th century. Inspired by Piaget, Vygotsky developed a more sophisticated system of cognitive development in children, today known as sociocultural theory. Unfortunately, …
During the COVID-19 school closure, online education as a substitute option worked fine for some courses and some learners but not for embodied knowledge at all. Not being a teacher myself, I can’t imagine how some elementary and middle school courses focused on hands-on activities were accomplished through cameras. For example, elementary school crafting, drawing, …
Twine Game: Road to Heroism (Digital Citizenship Edition) A zipped file to download, edit and play: Road to Heroism-Digital citizenship edition.html A direct link to gameplay: https://r6k45r7p.play.borogove.io/ Co-Creators: Emily Olson, Leo Jiang and Yi Lu Instructor: Prof. Jen Jenson Individual Reflection “Learning from experienced designs and designers: How well (and seriously!) did your team follow, …
Target audience: Since I work for an equity investment company focusing on ed-tech start-ups, I hope to provide our partnered firms and organizations with a digital artifact about energy saving. Since we work with a lot of companies that target grades 4-9, I want to provide a digital artifact that educators can easily add to their …
Jane (2010) asks, “Are you ready, and at the price of what sacrifice, to, live the good life together?” This question mainly guides me through the reading of new materialism. First of all, how should I define the “good life” in this decade? While we think about the intra-actions of matters that constitute a good …
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IP2: A slide presentation with speaker’s notes that describes/explains the textbook’s users and uses to peers. IP2 Tools of Intellect – Textbooks full References: Hirschman, D. (2013). The Sociology of the Door-Closer Redux. A Sociologit’s Commonplace Book. https://asociologist.com/2013/08/30/the-sociology-of-the-door-closer-redux/ Johnson, J. (1988). Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of the Door Closer. Social Problems. Latour, …
Content prioritization means that various Internet platforms use computer algorithms to provide users with content that may be of their interest. For example, after using Google Chrome to browse news on a certain topic, Google Chrome will continue to recommend news content of a similar topic to the user so that the user can preferentially …
During the first Zoom discussion in this course, Dr. McCready mentioned his frustrations with Canvas, the Learning Management System (LMS) currently adopted by UBC, and our group members felt the same way. From our past experience of distance learning with the MET program, we all had to rely heavily on many other platforms to make …