We’re playing in my Barbie Dreamhouse now! I studied computer engineering, so the design cycle is something I am intimately familiar with! I am also currently working in a program that is ostensibly targeting integrating the ADST curriculum (along with the Art Ed curriculum) into all subject areas, and all subject areas with each other. […]
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This is a different take on the subject than most folks I’ve seen in the course, which is always nerve-wracking. I used Wisemapping, which I was pleased to see was an open source project. There can never be enough FLOSS in EdTech! But that’s a post for another day. Two questions for feedback: I find
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Never let it be said that I am a great graphic designer. This is another assignment for my Teacher-Librarian coursework. I found this assignment interesting because I’ve never taken the time to split up my knowledge area in this way before. I feel like secondary science and math tend to not make abundant use of
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Although this assignment for my Teacher-Librarian course was centred on SAMR, I couldn’t help but feel like questions to ask about the educational value of tech had to be a little more holistic. As Lacruz (2018) points out, the SAMR model examines one dimension of technology use and this dimension is not the be-all, end-all
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SAMR is one lens through which we can view technology integration, and “provides us with a critical framework for assessing the richness of the technology task itself” (Brooks Kirkland, 2017). As we all know in our hearts, not every teacher is using technology in transformative ways in the classroom. The Library Learning Commons model is
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