Tiny Breathers Group project for the assignment of Making a “Usable” Learning Tool. Project Proposal: Group Members: Zoe Armstrong, Victoria Teran, Fiona Mao, and Anh Lam Background Teaching is a high-stress profession, with increasing burnout rates among educators. Teacher burnout is a “psychological syndrome teachers experience in response to chronic job stress, including emotional exhaustion, […]
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Educational technology – is it ready to be foundational to education? You don’t have to search very hard to find that the pandemic affected people differently. Many would tell you that the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. In relation to education, the learning gaps amongst students also got wider. The Canadian Commission […]
YouTube Takeover: The Displacement of the Beloved TV Cart Introduction There were two types of days that fired up an elementary school 90s kid. The first was a computer lab day. The sweet sound of 25 to 30 iMac 3Gs going off at the same time was a core memory for many. The second was […]
The work for my IP 2 Assignment can be found here.
Usability Usability is a two-way street between user and system. It encompasses the inherent competencies of each individual user as well as the capacities of the system to “show” the user how to navigate its parts to in turn find success. What is success in usability? According to Dix et al. (1998, p. 162) and […]
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 draft Social Studies curriculum that was released in 2021. SS Curriculum1981 SS Curriculum2005 SS Curriculum draft Though Indigenous knowledge and truth and reconciliation should be woven into all school subjects, […]
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 […]