My weekly reflections from EDCI 336.
For my last weekly reflection, I would like to reflect back on this course as a whole and talk about my experience and what I learned throughout this course. Since the first week of this class I did not set myself up for success unfortunately because the first two weeks of this course I was…
During week 10, we learned about Inclusion Supports in BC education which I found very interesting as I did not realize how many different supports there are available for students with different needs. To start off, we learnt what inclusive educational tech is and some of the key aspects of technology driven inclusion. Inclusive educational…
During week 9, we learnt about gamification and computational thinking and we even had a guest speaker who talked to us about Minecraft Education. Before our guest speaker, we went over the history of gaming education which was really interesting. I learnt that Roblox is 20 years old and that gaming education dates back to…
During week 8, we had a presentation for our group POD assignment to go over our initial findings. My groups is doing our project on the impact of social media on transgender students so for my part of the project I looked up the pros and cons of social media but during my initial research…
During week 6, we attended two different Focused ED seminars that were available for all districts in BC. The two seminars I attended were on Digital Classroom Resources for K-7 and the Student Cyber Security. The first seminar focused on digital classroom resources available on the Focused ED website. Some of the resources that stood…
During week 5, we had another guest speaker from SD62 who also talked to us about the different types of technology available in their district as well as their view on AI. This district has computers available for teachers but student teachers don’t get a district email which I found quite interesting so you have…
During week 4, we learned about the PSII (Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry) which is a school that is entirely independent and is built on an inquiry framework which means the students are in charge of their learnings. This school coast around $7,000 a year roughly which is a lot for a self based…
During week 3, we had a guest speaker from SD63 who talked to us about the different types of tech and resources they use within their district. Within the presentation we learnt about a few different technology resources that this districts uses that I found quite interesting. For example, Minecraft Education is one resource they…