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Since my last update, I have tried switching to the navy blue yarn and continuing to progress through the pattern I chose. Sadly, I’m disappointed with how it is turning out. I’d like to improve on creating a smoother transition between the yarn colours. I think I will frog the majority of what I’ve done […]
Read more "Free Inquiry – Final Reflection"Today was our last class for Technology and Innovation in Education! Below I have attached a photo of my sketchnote overview of the course. It portrays some of the themes we discussed over the semester, and some of my main takeaways. Click on this link for more information about sketchnoting and how it can be […]
Read more "Friday, March 27th 2026"Today in class we watched some of the Ed-tech presentations that we have been working on in our groups. One of the presentations today from Thomas, Lukas and Brad spoke about using AI for assessing student’s work. Some of the benefits they mentioned are; this could help reduce teacher bias, save time and maintain consistency […]
Read more "Friday, March 20th 2026"This week in our class we participated in an Ed Camp where we submitted topics ideas, then voted on which ones we are most interested in discussing. It was difficult to decide because there were many that I was interested in hearing others opinions and ideas about. The topic that I suggested: Using AI for […]
Read more "Friday, March 13 2026"For this presentation we explored the question: How can fitness technology and activity-tracking apps promote healthy habits or unhealthy competition and anxiety among students? It examines how tools that track steps, heart rate, activity minutes, and sleep can support teaching and learning by encouraging self-monitoring, goal setting, and health literacy. At the same time, the project considers […]
Read more "Education Technology Presentation"This week I started working on a toque for my partner. This time I decided to challenge myself to use a crochet pattern instead of a YouTube video. I looked through the free patterns available on the Lion Brand Yarn website and decided to go with this pattern. I especially like this pattern because it […]
Read more "Free Inquiry – Part 4"In class today we discussed computational thinking and gaming in education. During our hands-on lab time I tried the “Learn to code with Anna & Elsa from Frozen”. Below I’ve attached a screen shot of how far I was able to make it with this activity. I have very minimal experience with coding so I was challenged […]
Read more "Friday, March 6th 2026"My goal by this week was to complete the bulk of my toque and I am glad that I was able to complete it entirely! I had to redo the same section over 3-4 times as I kept losing a stitch as the rows progressed. I’m still not sure how this can happen when I’m […]
Read more "Free Inquiry – Part 3"Why is assistive technology not more common? This week our topic was assistive technology (AT) and intentionality in technology enabled learning design. While reading through today’s topic I thought about why digital accessibility practices are not more commonly used. We watched a video from the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium about how technology can be used […]
Read more "Friday, February 27th 2026"Today I attended a Pro-D day workshop hosted by Cari Wilson about AI literacy. She explained how AI works by collecting data and transforms it into tokens. Each is given a value depending on its location and probability, then these tokens are reassembled into responses. To explain this to student, she recommended using the “once […]
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