Teaching By Day, Knitting By Night!
As the end of the semester begins to approach, I decided that this week would be a good time to revisit some of the free inquiry questions that I created at the beginning of my free inquiry and see what light I may be able to shed on them and what new questions I have.
This week in EdTech class, we had Rich McCue as a guest lecturer who talked about coding in the classroom. Continue reading “Reflection 10: Coding In The Classroom”
This post was made collaboratively by Tyla Penner from Spend Time With Ty and Kate Barnes from Recess Knitting as a submission for the Edtech Inquiry for EDCI 336.
This week my EdTech Class had Heidi James come into our virtual classroom to discuss gaming in education. We started the discussion by discussing our own experience with gaming in education. The class often had experiences in primary where the focus was often focused on speed in typing. Many of the games that me and my peers discussed had a common thread of games being timed and how for us as elementary students at the time that caused some stress and discomfort for us.
Continue reading “Reflection 9: Gamification and Game-Based Learning”
This week my EdTech class had Chantelle Morvay-Adams from BCEdAccess as a guest lecturer on the topic of assistive technology.
Continue reading “Reflection 8: Inclusion and Assistive Technology”
The current global situation has created a unique situation for a multitude of students. The concern of screen time on student health and welling has a whole new meaning.
As I went about contemplating the topic for my EdTech reflection post this week I found myself going through the steps that I go through each week. That is, I went to my handy Trello Board to look for ideas and inspiration. Then it hit me to create a post about collaboration and communication, and how I have been able to achieve these through programs such as Trello, Mattermost, Zoom and Google Docs.
Continue reading “Reflection 5: Collaboration and Communication”
How does one go about choosing yarn. There are multiple factors that go into making your yarn choice be just right.
As a person who rarely uses social media for personal uses, the idea of utilizing social media in a professional setting was at first very confusing. I was especially surprised when the prevalence of Twitter within the education community was revealed.
Continue reading “Reflection 3: Social Media and Personal Learning Networks”
The knitting has officially begun. The yarn has been chosen, a knitting bag has been selected and the tools of my notions bag has been organized.