For my general thoughts about generative AI, please see a screenshot of these tweets: I keep my twitter account private for Professional Reasons, although the Dean of the Faculty of Education and the STF library do follow me! I’ve long been skeptical of ChatGPT, but it wasn’t until I actually tried it that my preconceived […]
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Summary of learning!
The title says it all. Enjoy!
Link is here. Please listen to audio files!
So long and thanks for all the fish (and watercolours)
The title of this post is a reference to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I digress. We’ve arrived at our final learning project post! The time has just flown by (or been wiled away through procrastination), and I’m excited to share the end result of my learning journey. I chose watercolour […]
Continue readingLearning project outtakes
A roundup of watercolours that didn’t make it into a real post.
Continue readingA learning project crossover episode!
I don’t know about you, but I love myself a good crossover episode. I got to create my very own last week when I created a watercolour project as a personal arts response for another one of my classes, EAE 201. I painted a field guide of sorts featuring eight native Saskatchewan plant species. It […]
Continue readingReflections on digital/media literacy
The best preparation I received for teaching digital literacy to students was working in journalism. Before becoming a teacher, I had a previous life/career as a writer, editor, and fact-checker for a couple of news outlets. Journalism taught me how to examine bias, evaluate sources, and most importantly, to question everything (especially authority). In this […]
Continue reading“Be Kind Online”, or what I didn’t learn about cyber safety in school
As either the youngest millennial, the oldest member of Gen Z, or something called a “zillenial”, I came of age during the first decade of smartphones and social media. There was Facebook and Skype, but also flip phones; some of us had wifi and some of us still had dial-up until after Obama became President; […]
Continue readingTechnology in the classroom: tool or terror?
If a teacher shouts to a classroom full of students all using their cellphones, are any of them paying enough attention to hear it? This might be the new “if tree falls in the forest”-style question of our times. Or it might just be a pithy-sounding way to begin this blog post. Either way, it’s […]
Continue readingEDTC 300 SmackDown: Books vs the Internet!
Last week I did something for my online learning project that probably sounds contradictory: I bought a physical book about watercolour painting. Specifically, I bought this one: 15 Minute Art Watercolour: Learn to Paint in Six Steps or Less by Jola Sopek. Throughout this learning project, I’ve become very immersed in the world of digital art education. […]
Continue readingBuilding Digital Sleuths Through Literary Inquiry
Regardless of the subject or grade level, incorporating digital literacy into the curriculum becomes very important when it comes to battling the widespread problem of fake news and digital disinformation. As a future teacher, I see a fantastic chance to include digital literacy skills into my lessons and provide my students[Read more]
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