“Just kidding—we’re just going to focus on the three most critical features.” (Dirksen, 2015, Chap. 5) It seemed serendipitous to have Portent suggest a title for this blog post that sounded a lot like Julie Dirksen could have written it as an example of bad teaching. Even still, my cursory understanding of Amish community life […]
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Trello: Not your grandmother’s index cards
UPDATE: Several of my classmates have blogged about Trello (here, here, and here). Reading their reflections has helped me think through different user perspectives. I previously posted the following on the Technology & Curriculum (EDUC5303G) blog. Since that time, we’ve been using Trello extensively and have moved from the Basic version to the Business Class version. Before […]
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Why Teaching Crowds will make you Connected, but Alone!
In this week’s readings, techno-optimism met techno-pessimism. Where Dron & Anderson are almost giddy about the potential of social software in education in Teaching Crowds, Turkle’s thoughts in “Connected, but Alone” on the effects of technology on society are much bleaker It seems that Dron & Anderson could find nothing wrong, while Turkle had little […]
How to Fight Lex Luthor Using Only Digital Tech in Adult Ed
This post is the first in a series for this semester’s course, “Digital Tech in Adult Ed,” with Dr. Rob Power at UOIT. I probably won’t win any SEO awards for my post title [My first EDUC5405G post], but I wonder if it matters. It’s the content that counts, isn’t it? The title, the contents […]
