Thinking Critically about Usability Criteria of Usability as it relates to HCI (In the Past and Now) from Dix et al. (1998, p 162) and Nielson (2003) as cited in Issa & Isaias (2015, p. 33): “Learnability: by which new users can begin effective interaction and achieve maximal performance” This criteria relates well to the […]
For this assignment, I have decided to work with the Alberta Education’s Kindergarten to Grade 6 Social Studies curriculum from 1981, from 2005 and the current 2021 draft curriculum. SS Curriculum1981 SS Curriculum2005 SS Curriculum draft Though Indigenous knowledge and truth and reconciliation should be woven into all school subjects, it is most prominently discussed […]
Final Project Proposal: I would like to focus my research around ways in which white educators (specifically in the K-12 public education system) can meaningfully and respectfully provide these opportunities for their students. The Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Calls to Action #62-65 are specifically surrounding Education for Reconciliation. As of 2021, none of these calls […]
Al Carmichael – What’s in the bag? (Task #1) Al and I both have a coaching perspective. I discussed (more briefly) in my Task 1 that in having a volleyball line up card in my bag, it shows that I am physically literate enough to teach physical skills to others. Al went into more detail […]
Speculative Futures September 2040: This will be my first year piloting the new differentiation robot: Eddie. Eddie was designed as an AI teacher’s assistant with a specific focus on identifying learning needs in individual students and outputting resources at each of their levels. Eddie can quickly draft up a report on where each student is […]
Attention Economy I related a lot to this week’s topic. I often find myself wasting what could be, very useful time on social media thanks to the autoplay feature and it was interesting to listen to both Harris and Tufecki dissect and present arguments on how dangerous features like autoplay can be. What really stood […]
WEEK 3 LANGUAGE AS TECHNOLOGY: WRITTEN LANGUAGE What effects has writing has on human thought processes? As Gnanadesikan (2011) discusses, writing was ultimately invented to help humans remember information. Because of this, thought processes were able to gain in complexity as individuals no longer had to hold everything inside their brains. They were able […]
WEEK 2 LANGUAGE AS TECHNOLOGY: SPOKEN LANGUAGE As a French immersion teacher, the hardest part of my job is getting my students to speak the their second language with one another. Because of this, I was really looking forward to Module 2. One of the things that Boroditsky (June 2017) discusses in her presentation is […]