{"id":168,"date":"2017-03-05T13:20:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T20:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yulinglee\/?p=168"},"modified":"2017-03-17T13:28:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T20:28:20","slug":"connected-learning-hackathon-ubc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yulinglee\/2017\/03\/05\/connected-learning-hackathon-ubc\/","title":{"rendered":"Connected Learning Hackathon @ UBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (March 4), I had the privilege to participate in the Connected Learning Hackathon as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ets.educ.ubc.ca\/sky-water-earth\/\"><em>Sky, Water, Earth<\/em><\/a> project. Here&#8217;s the blurb from the website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Sky, Water, Earth\u00a0<\/em>is a collection of informal learning activities that evoke a sense of wonder about the planet we live on and beyond, through astronomy, marine biology, and the intersection between the two. <em>Sky, Water, Earth<\/em> takes the form of a career preparation initiative for youths aged 17-24 who are interested in the field of science. The initiative encourages youths to follow their passion and through a variety of activities helps them build competencies employers value. Youths who are fully engaged are awarded with unique real-life opportunities that provide additional in-depth experiences and further expand their personal and professional networks. These opportunities bring forward-thinking students closer to success in their academic and professional careers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More interestingly, from an educational technology perspective, this project &#8221; is a joint initiative between the Faculty of Education at UBC, the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre, and the HR MacMillan Space Centre. <em>Sky, Water, Earth<\/em> will be facilitated online using edX Edge and an emerging connected learning website called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrng.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">LRNG.org<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think the notion of &#8216;connected learning&#8217; as a self-curated playlist of learning activities is fascinating, and warrants further study (at least by myself). So I found myself participating in the connected learning hackathon, along with fellow educators to help design and create several lessons for the learning playlist.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to following the progress of this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (March 4), I had the privilege to participate in the Connected Learning Hackathon as part of the Sky, Water, Earth project. Here&#8217;s the blurb from the website: Sky, Water, Earth\u00a0is a collection of informal learning activities that evoke a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yulinglee\/2017\/03\/05\/connected-learning-hackathon-ubc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hackathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yulinglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yulinglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yulinglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yulinglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yulinglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yulinglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yulinglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yulinglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yulinglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yulinglee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}