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This was our final week of classes in EdTech, and we got to hear from the various different groups on the technologies they found interesting and useful in their teaching. These included ClassroomScreen, Google Classroom, JustSketchMe, BandLab, and more. The… Continue Reading →
This week we revisited AI in Education, and took a deeper dive. We looked at ways it is impacting classrooms directly now, and ways it could potentially impact them in the future. One facet is looking at how AI can… Continue Reading →
This week in Ed Tech we discussed artificial intelligence, its rampant rise in society, and how this technology may impact our classrooms and our teaching. AI is a broad-sweeping term, and for the purposes of a blog post, it is… Continue Reading →
For our ed-tech presentation, my group (Kevin, Jeff, Noah, Matt, and myself) decided to use MindMeister. It is an online mind-mapping website which allows students and teachers to generate interactive, multimodal mind maps with far more functionality than a simple… Continue Reading →
Exciting news – I am ready to record my song! The next hurdle to jump through has become how to record the song. There are many different audio recording platforms that exist, some of which are rather expensive (but powerful)… Continue Reading →
Gamifying learning is a great tool for creating engagement in the classroom, as well as helping students to focus their attention on learning rather than on grades and reduce stress and anxiety surrounding participating in class. Of course it can’t… Continue Reading →
Today’s Ed Tech topic was how we can use ed tech to support our diverse students learning needs. Our classrooms in 2023 (and beyond) in Canada have youth from all kinds of backgrounds, abilities, and challenges. Some students are immigrants… Continue Reading →
This week’s topic in ed tech was online learning, both the pros of it, and the cons. Online learning methods are generally grouped into two categories: synchronous, and asynchronous. Synchronous means that the class delivery follows a set schedule, much… Continue Reading →
This week’s seminar was a survey about online image and graphic creation. I have dabbled in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator (see below for a graphic I made about chemistry in Illustrator), but have found both of these programs to… Continue Reading →
The topic that stuck out to me the most in class today was considering novel ways to facilitate meaningful conversations amongst our students, and between teacher and student. A resource that we were directed to was called liberating structures. Liberating… Continue Reading →