Allan Carter's Digifolio
This blog is a collection of the work I completed for a course through Cape Breton University, EDUC5105, Designing Web-Based Learning. It also serves as an online portfolio for links to other course work, posts from other courses and where I will be sharing some of my experiences as an educator through my own personal reflections as well as samples from my teaching endeavours. You can contact me via email at allancarterspace@gmail.com or through "the Twitter" (allanmcarter).
Sunday, January 19, 2014
The Dark Side of the Internet
The following visual was completed on easel.ly. It was for a discussion on the paper "The dark side of the Internet: Attacks, costs and responses" for Memorial University's course 6931 Educational Technology Law.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Learning "From" Versus Learning "With"
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He points out that he does not learn with people in his Twitter feed, but learns from them, since connections in many social media spaces involve observations through reading or watching. Usually the material or people we interact with online would have little thought or consideration about our own particular teaching environment.
Additionally, Glogowski is critical of much of the professional development that can simply become trends or buzzwords since it is delivered in an approach that views educators as "implementors" of certain tasks or strategies. So while a teaching strategy or the integration of technology may have worked in one class, we have to ask ourselves, will it work for my students in my class?
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Providers of Insight?
Marshall McLuhan From Wikipedia |
When considering Marshall McLuhan's 1959 lecture "Electronic Revolution: Revolutionary Effects of New Media," the notion of "fast-moving and flexible media" has indeed as much, if not more, significance in the 21st century. The evolution of technology in our society can be seen as both breathtaking and disconcerting. Inventor and Futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses the rapid advancement of technology which he argues will "blur the line between human and machine."
I think the role of "the teacher" in the learning environments of the 21st century is best illustrated when we consider McLuhan's observations about the electronic revolution of television: "The electronic revolution of television has made the teacher the provider no longer of information but of insight, and the student not the consumer but the co-teacher, since he has already amassed so much information outside the classroom."
I think the role of "the teacher" in the learning environments of the 21st century is best illustrated when we consider McLuhan's observations about the electronic revolution of television: "The electronic revolution of television has made the teacher the provider no longer of information but of insight, and the student not the consumer but the co-teacher, since he has already amassed so much information outside the classroom."
Monday, November 11, 2013
Initiatives, Isolation and Mr. D
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None of the teachers, including myself, were overly excited with the idea of being captured on video. Assurances were made that only the best practices would be used and any other material would be edited. Yet we could not be sold on the idea and once one teacher declined, everyone else fell like dominoes.
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