Category Archives: EDTEC467

How has my Learning Philosophy changed? Answering this question for me was difficult. I have learned about may different things in this course as well as the other courses that I have taken so it’s not easy to say what … Continue reading →

Digital Diploma Mills. Or Chicken Little, the Sith Lords and the falling sky. Most of the article reminded me of the slippery slope argument that you hear about with every hot and button topic and this one is no different. … Continue reading →

This week’s readings and activities relating to participatory cultures were interesting, timely and fun. The executive summary reading identify the new skills and many of them where appropriate to the activities of using Scratch play, performance, simulation, networking, negotiation, distributed … Continue reading →

Articulate Studio ‘13 Articulate Studio combines a number of articulate products together. The Presenter portion allows for greater control of “PowerPoint” presentation setup. The Engage part of the package allows for easy to use graphically pleasing interactions that allow for … Continue reading →

In the article Web 2.0Technologies as Cognitive Tools of the New Media Age, the authors illustrate how 2.0 tools are used in a social constructivist manner. The three areas they reviewed folksonomy, wiki’s and blogging the one most pertinent to the … Continue reading →

I enjoyed watching the videos in this week’s module. Watching Rethinking Learning I agree with Dr. Nicole Pinkard in that students today are consumers of media not necessarily producers of media and that the difference is usually that there is … Continue reading →

In reading the first chapter of the New Culture of Learning by Thomas and Brown I kept getting hung up on the phrase new. The examples that they cited as being “new” are, to my mind, not really new at … Continue reading →

My learning philosophy is more of a Hodgepodge of thoughts and ideas. I don’t really subscribe to a specific theory given that I tend to be more interested in things as a practitioner than a theorist. I think that behaviorism, … Continue reading →

There were too many things to touch on in considering these articles Minds on Fire and Learning Working & Playing in the Digital Age by John Seely Brown. In Minds, I enjoyed the examples of the difference Cartesian vs Social … Continue reading →