The Ed non-Tech (EnT) Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Ed non-Tech (EnT) Podcast
Colleagues, friends, and passerby…
The level of this here humble (meek!) podcasting endeavour has just gone up! Significantly!
The reason for this is, be assured, this absolutely first-rate convo between myself and Dr. Moeketsi Letseka, UNESCO Chair on Open Distance Learning (ODL), and Professor of Philosophy of Education and African Philosophy at the University of South Africa (UNISA)! UNISA is among the leading providers of online and distance education on the African continent… and globally, as well!
https://youtu.be/F0DLT-oBkeAContinents apart… but for the affordances of contemporary online technologies! #ednontechIf you’re even half-awake, this audio should get you moving! #ednontech
Matt’s NotesIt’s difficult to describe what goes through your mind when somebody of Dr. Letseka is speaking… eloquently and passionately and with facts and information at the ready…
He’s been contributing significant research to South Africa’s education system through his numerous roles…
It should be noted that UNISA is a world-leading MEGA-university… with total enrollment exceeding 400,000 students across all programs and affiliates… whereas University of Toronto… Canada’s largest PSI has fewer than 62,000… UNISA’s enrollment being more than 6.5 times that of U-of-T…
When considering such scale… the challenges associated with delivery of any kind of learning outside traditional lectures become vitally important! Dr. Letseka and his international networks of colleagues have decades systematically building a body of research, practice, and literature to elevate educational outcomes across all sectors of contemporary South Africa’s economy!
I will also disclose that of Dr. Letseka’s many ongoing projects…
UNESCO Chair on Open Distance Learning (ODL), as well as ongoing ODeL research projects and projects that are in the pipeline, notably the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education Project, which is being developed jointly with the consortium comprising the Institute of Distance Education, Eswatini University; The Centre for Teaching and Learning, National University of Lesotho (NUL), and the SADC Centre for Distance Learning, Botswana Open University (BOU).
Dr. Moeketsi Letseka, UNESCO Chair on Open Distance Learning via Facebook
…I find myself compelled by all of it! For many reasons! I will also admit significant interest to the narrative series (multiple series) which are being written as we speak… including a work of memoir!
I will also add that, as discussed in the recording, the global COVID 19 pandemic occurred in the midst of Dr. Letseka’s first term as UNESCO Chair on Open Distance Learning! As such, I strongly recommend this video from fall 2020 to better contextualize the post-COVID learning environment(s)!
His book from last year Mediating Open Distance e-Learning in the Advent of Global Crises is available as an OER (CC by 4.0) through UNISA Press!
We sincerely hope that Dr. Letseka will consider joining us again to talk about these and his many other research projects sooner than later!
Dr. Letseka, it’s been an honor to have you join us! We are also grateful to anyone else!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NcSA8T9thQMy mind’s made up, my mind’s made up
I’m gonna come clean tomorrow
My mind’s made up, my mind’s made up
I’m gonna fly straight as an arrow #ednontech
Matt’s NotesHey there! We’re pleased you’ve joined us for a positively Foucaultian dive into leveraging structures of education… regardless of whether you identify as structuralist, post-structuralist, or “other” for sure you should check the video and/or audio!
https://youtu.be/7Xm6RO-zOGwWe’re all kinds of post-modern! And 60’s psychedelia vis-à-vis 80’s hardcore! #ednontech
We’re the beagles of death metal… er… overlords of #ednontech… uh…
But SeriouslyIt’s been a week among weeks… my timeline for migrating west has moved from the weeks to the days basically overnight!
In terms of e-learning commentary…
It’s been an absolute thrill being able to expand the scope of this show with interviews! The sheer diversity… the range… of endeavor is absolutely outside anything I would have expected when we began this enterprise in September ’22!
One thing that’s helped with all this is leveraging LinkedIn and Instagram… these small, tenuous connections to strangers can lead to immediate acceptance of a podcast request… or ringing, limitless silence!
And, to the extent that this endeavour overlaps significantly with the music show… we’ve had writers, e-learning experts, musicians, social workers, college administrators…
It’s been a gosh-danged cavalcade of radness!
So… as we gear up to take a week off for aforementioned relocating purposes… I’ll say… I went down from over 2000 Instagram posts down to 25… and furthermore, I won’t let that number grow… I take one or two posts down for every I put up… it’s all in keeping with my desire to reduce my physical and digital imprint! It’s a summer downsizing and relocating vibe for me, for sure!
I hope you are having a highly rad summer wherever you are!
Doug’s NotesLeveraging Structures of EducationPhilosophical and literary traditions on problems of individual – group relations trace at least as far back as Socrates’ choice between hemlock and exile.
Walberg, H. J. (1967). Structural and affective aspects of classroom climate.
Classroom and other learning environments have frequently been described in terms of the ways in which certain kinds of instructional demands, situational constraints, or psychosocial characteristics relate to various cognitive and affective outcomes in students.
However, there has been little systematic analysis of actual classroom structures examining how certain structures within the classroom can make different goals salient.
Ames, C. (1992). Classrooms: Goals, structures, and student motivation. Journal of educational psychology, 84(3), 261.
School adjustment is likely to be influenced by a wide variety of factors.
We estimated the importance of individual, class, and school factors for academic and psychosocial school adjustment in children
Van Den Oord, E. J., & Van Rossem, R. (2002). Differences in first graders’ school adjustment: The role of classroom characteristics and social structure of the group. Journal of School Psychology, 40(5), 371-394.
… three structural dimensions to describe teaching quality: (a) task, (b) authority, and (c) evaluation and recognition.
the four aspects of students’ functioning: (1) motivation, (2) self-regulated learning, (3) academic achievement, and (4) social functioning.
Bergsmann, E. M., Lüftenegger, M., Jöstl, G., Schober, B., & Spiel, C. (2013). The role of classroom structure in fostering students’ school functioning: A comprehensive and application-oriented approach. Learning and Individual Differences, 26, 131-138.
… has resulted in ‘a lack of coherence in the field with respect to what [it] is, how it should be implemented, and what consequences it has for students’
Cui, R., & Teo, P. (2021). Dialogic education for classroom teaching: a critical review. Language and education, 35(3), 187-203.
Word of the PodcastStructure
Question of the PodcastHow can we adapt to the existing structures and best help learners?
Phrase of the PodcastSocrates was rockin’ it in the Agora.
We’ve had more fun than we’ve had any right to! Thanks for being part of it!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKyBlJ_JN8
Earlier this week, Doug and I had the chance to speak with Dr. Norm Vaughan, Professor with the Education and Schooling Faculty at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Norm has had an rich and varied career across a wide range of settings, contexts, and locations! He is the author of numerous articles, presentations, books, and he joined us to speak about his latest book Principles of Blended Learning: Shared Metacognition and Communities of Inquiry (2023)! We also get into a whole lot of “other”!
https://youtu.be/aRbSJF8svvwA triple-headed #ednontech threat!All of the audio kilojoules with fewer of the video calories! #ednontech
Notes and CommentaryFriends, I was utterly stoked to learn while we were preparing to record that Dr. Vaughan and Dr. Reid know each other well from some years… decades!… back!
Furthermore, Norm was greatly obliging when it came to sharing resources… above and beyond those provided below!
Some of the highlights from the notes that Doug, Norm, and myself prepared via Google Docs… at least for me!… include:
Norm is looking forward to the forthcoming book Generative AI and Education: Digital Pedagogies, Teaching Innovation and Learning Design (Pratschke, 2024). Based on my view of the publisher’s page, this is going to be essential reading!
Furthermore, all three of the books on blended learning that Norm has helped author are all, respectively, essential among e-learning titles generally… and blended learning in specific! Blended Learning in Higher Education was a key text for me during my doctorate… and subsequently!
Version 1.0.0My final point in these notes… which I spoke to during the recording… is that with the new book, Principles of Blended Learning: Shared Metacognition and Communities of Inquiry (2023) we are seeing further expression and delineation of CoI principles vis-à-vis the seven principles of blended learning!
Furthermore, the meaningful and significant reference to Indigenous ways of knowing throughout the book is, to the best of my knowledge to CoI works… and a welcome move forward! More of this, please!
From Vaughan, Cleveland-Innes, & Garrison (2023)
Vaughan, N. D., Dell, D., Cleveland-Innes, M., & Garrison, D. R. (2023). Principles of blended learning: Shared metacognition and communities of inquiry. Athabasca University Press
This diagram really resonated with Doug! And it’s easy to see why!
Phrase(s) of the PodcastRelationships, relationships, relationships!
Community, community, community!
We are pleased to the max that Dr. Vaughan was able to join us! And you! And them!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdEY4UppWa4
Folks, I was expecting to enjoy my chat with Dr. Jon Dron, Associate Dean, Learning and Assessment in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Athabasca University… I was not expecting to have as much fun as I did! While we were talking about his latest book How Education Works, we ended up going many other places as well… including into the ten years he spent as a professional musician! Please check it out below, if you’re cool enough!
https://youtu.be/MZLCMIpDYCUDon’t believe what you see, unless you see it here! #ednontechYou (didn’t) hear it here first! #ednontech
Matt’s NotesI’ve been aware of Jon and colleagues’ many and significant works since I began my doctoral work, back in around 2012! As mentioned during the episode, I mention cite Jon’s works no fewer than 15 times in my 200-page-ish doctoral thesis! To say that his work has been influential on my thinking would be a supreme understatement!
I’ll go further… Anderson & Dron’s (2011) paper “Three Generations of Distance Education Pedagogy” should be required reading for anyone involved in teaching post-secondary in any way that involves the internet in any way shape or form!
Furthermore, apart from the fact that his latest book is supremely practical, useful, and… significantly… highly readable… Jon’s website is eclectic, thoughtful, and… SOMEHOW!… highly entertaining… it is updated on the regular and I couldn’t recommend it enough!
I had such a great time with Jon during our chat… besides his many brilliant and varied works across various areas of the educational endeavor… it was legit so cool to talk with a fellow lifer on the path of music… that connection runs deep, friends!
Thanks a million Jon, and thanks to you for checking this out!
Jon, thank you muchly for being here! & also anybody else!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SkoD2CIakQYou can try hard
Don’t mean a thing
Take it easy, greasy
Then your jive will swing #ednontech
Everyone, I am utterly pleased to share our recent EnT convo with Dr. Rob Power, Assistant Professor of Education at Cape Breton University! Besides being an accomplished and prolific researcher, teacher, and practitioner in many diverse areas of the educational endeavor writ large… Rob and I also go back many years professionally… and this is our first time catching up in at least ten years!
https://youtu.be/yNv1EuNBYEYThis video was born in the clouds! #ednontechIf you listen closely over the jet engines, you should be able to hear this audio! #ednontech
Matt’s NotesAs discussed in the episode, Rob and I go back to 2008… when I arrived to work as Communications Instructor with the Language Studies and Academics (LSA) Department at what was then the College of the North Atlantic-Qatar… to be clear, we’ve now known each other during the 00’s… 10’s… and now the 20’s! Furthermore, Rob and I both hold the Education Doctorate, Ed.D degree… his from Athabasca University, and mine from UCalgary… both specializing in similar fields within education!
Rob’s accomplishments and projects and initiatives are wide-ranging, and too numerous to mention here!
A good place to check out any and/or all of what he’s up to lately is his consultancy website Power Learning Solutions… another good place to look would be his page on the Cape Breton University website! He also keeps an active presence on LinkedIn! Below is a screenshot from my favorite among Rob’s many recent publications! Do yourself a favor and check any and/or all of them out!
I am seriously grateful for the opportunity to catch up with Dr. Power! I strongly recommend reaching out to colleagues in person… beyond through weak social media ties… it can add perspective to your practice, and joy to your week!
We are glad Rob came by, and wish both him and you all success and enjoyment this summer!
Rob, thanks a bunch for joining us! And everyone else as well, of course!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQ_3sBZEm0Run and tell all of the angels
This could take all night
Think I need a devil to help me get things right #ednontech
Hey, y’all! And howdy! And salutations…
In a month that’s had far more high-profile guests than I ever could have hoped to speak to… they don’t come much more high-profile, for my literary and academic dollar, than AJ Hartley, award winning and bestselling writer of more than twenty-five mystery/thriller, fantasy, historical fiction, and young adult novels!
AJ is a talented, prolific novelist, and he jumps across genres, age groups, formats, and contexts for his work(s). You also have to know that he is Robinson Professor of Shakespeare, UNC Charlotte… and that he holds the highly coveted position of professor emeritus! For the non-academics checking this out, this is basically rock star level stuff in the land of Higher Education!
AJ was generous enough to spend some time on the EnT! We talked about the various awesome creative projects he’s been involved over his decades as a writer… including his latest project, a work of historical fiction entitled Trinity… his latest in a series of ongoing literary collaborations spanning multiple formats with internationally-renowned musician, media founder, and many other things… Tom Delonge!
https://youtu.be/0Cae7FcICBcWill these technological interwebs marvels never cease? #ednontechForty minutes to Mars! And other #ednontech!
Matt’s NotesLet me say that as an educator first and foremost, I was stoked to discover that AJ grew up in a household with teachers for parents! He has that in common with the inestimable Dr. Doug Reid, as a matter of fact! When I am looking towards what makes people creative… able to find modes of expression for nuanced thoughts, feelings, and wavelengths of various kinds… the home environment lands as major, surprising absolutely nobody! AJ is… among many of the things we discussed in the convo… a sort of career educator! To my way of thinking, there are few higher callings! And… for as long as I’ve been involved in this show… I’ve had to think in terms of education… and entertainment… namely my own (or OUR own, rather)… because the moment I’m not having a good time with this stuff… it’s done! I feel great when I hear from AJ… or our recent Atlantic Canadian novelist Chuck Bowie… that they take the responsibility to entertain seriously! From my standpoint, that means they reward the reader for suspending their disbelief and for spending time in their worlds… with richness of detail, believable characters, and… crucially… showing profound respect for their audience in so doing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59qYmXagGHshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Lthb3EwA8&t=2sBlink is in the house! Somebody pinch all of us! #ednontechI’ll end the personalish commentary here! It’s hard to explain how great it is to speak with somebody as deeply gifted and profoundly accomplished across multiple fields of artistic, scholarly, and cultural endeavor generally as AJ, and the many colleagues who inform his many collaborations both on the covers of his books and behind the scenes!
Finally, in our post-recording convo… we shared the music that we thought ought to go with the episode! Perhaps unsurprisingly we both had Blink 182 among our respective YouTube clips!
Knowledge, narrative, and punk rock are for the masses! Which is my semi-punk way of saying it’s been a goddamned slice!
AJ’s Pickshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41L0nQ-tgXghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD8VNZwN1mMMatt’s Pickshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilDD5SeHxXEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCAGLmXbxAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFuCwe8YO6cI feel like I know these dudes from somewhere… #ednontechAJ, we are legit stoked you joined us! The others of you, well… you’re fine, too…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siO6dkqidc4Take me out tonight
Where there’s music and there’s people
And they’re young and alive
Driving in your car #ednontech
Tape’s rolling… er…
Friends, pals, colleagues, university Education students and/or profs and/or any single individual checking this out from any vantage point whatsoever…
Bob Mehr is, among many (many!) things, a 2 x Grammy Award winning writer, producer, and NYT bestselling author of one of the most definitive rock bios ever written about any band… basically in the history of the deep and wide rock bio canon… I am, of course referring to Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements (Da Capo, 2016)!
Bob generously replied quickly and affirmatively to a LinkedIn message from a complete stranger, leading to the present convo! My mind is still blown, thanks!
https://youtu.be/yQgZKURJshIWesterberg’s probably not gonna watch this! But you never know! #ednontechThis #ednontech audio is best played at a sensible, adult volume! But it’s up to you all…
A photo of the rock biographer… with some of his hard-earned hardware! #ednontech
Matt’s NotesPersonal fandom alert! I’m a forever fan of the Replacements, and all associated musicians, acts, and scenes…
Also, as a general thing, me and my dirtbag Atlantic Canadian pals have all, many of us anyhow, been through various Replacements fandoms… my best friend Jon was in a band called the Westerberg Suicides forever…
And, furthermore, I’ve been a fan of Bob Mehr’s authoritative, bestselling, thoroughly enjoyable, and thoroughly… troubling… biography of one of the Last Great Rock Bands… since before it came out! Since I heard the project was in development… more than ten years ago!
Bob’s professional connections and accolades are so significant, and so public… far be it from me to rehash any of it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MODXwyKL7qMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUOPpqhHt70Speaking as a fan of the Replacements, Wilco, Green Day… and a veritable boatload of the others Bob has worked with through his writing, journalism, production, archival work, and just about any other role within the music industry you could care to name…
The word is “thanks”! In all gratitude… and RADITUDE…
And beyond any further of that, I’ll let the convo speak for itself… although I’ll leave a screenshot from the book’s website which Bob mentioned in the recording… and, as a special bonus, at absolutely no cost to you whatsoever… a ‘Mats-heavy YouTube playlist… AKA “Bob’s Greatest Hits”!
Go to here now! https://www.replacementsbook.com/
Bob has also recently worked on these other… uh… FAIRLY HIGH-PROFILE projects as well…
Billy Joe… Jeff… Paul… or, you know, the drummers… or… uh… other cool, rad indie artists…
The EnT Podcast and/or Today New Brunswick Tomorrow the World would be grateful! And shook! To have you… as guests!
Phew… so much effort not to fanboy on this thing! Folks, as far as I’m concerned this was a riot! You’ve witnessed history in the making, of various kinds!
Finally… I’d be remiss not to share a link to what is probably my favorite Westerberg interview of all time…!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Vn_RGPf6cWe’re so misunderstood… #ednontechhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTGr5t3MoYSometimes we give ourselves the creeps! #ednontechBob, thanks for stopping by! And the rest of you all, as well! But not as much as Bob!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygO-ws6vUrQI hate music
Sometimes I don’t
I hate music
It’s got too many notes #ednontech
It was my great privilege late last week to speak with Stephen Downes, a long-time researcher with the National Research Council Canada’s Digital Technologies Research Centre in Ottawa!
Stephen is a substantive thinker and prolific writer on nearly any or all aspects of e-learning one can conceive of! He is among the preeminent philosophers of how human cognition and digital networks interact and perpetuate themselves across online and physical spaces.
Please click below to check out our convo!
https://youtu.be/MR_ye6CdDBcConnections everywhere! #ednontechEven if all you had was this audio, you’d still be quite well-served! #ednontech
Matt’s NotesThis is again where I place my usual mea culpa: I can’t think of much in terms of commentary to add to the chat with Stephen!
Perhaps beyond a few contextualizing remarks and resources, of course!
As mentioned in the recordings, I’ve been aware of Stephen and colleagues’ work since I began my doctoral work with the University of Calgary in 2012… so… 12 years, or roughly one quarter of my life! Pretty significant from that standpoint alone, really!
There is much to appreciate about any of Stephen’s significant and ongoing contributions to the practice, research, and outreach of e-learningon behalf of the government of Canada, notably, but not exclusively!
I simply lack the space here to try and do any kind of justice to explaining the concepts or associated practices going into connectivism… but, actually, I think we did a pretty good job of covering some of that during our chat!
I will end this limited commentary by pointing to two significant, informative, and… dare I say “fun”?… resources that Stephen updates on the regular! The OLDaily newsletter… and his primary website! See the screenshots below!
We are seriously grateful to Stephen for stopping by the podcast! And yourselves as well!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNpBTyLIpYE
Matt’s NotesFolks… and folkers…
It’s my distinct pleasure to caw up some media hereabouts… to the effect of allaying the malicious and seditious tendencies of being entrenched in traditions vis-à-vis our educational approaches!
And so we veer all around, and it’s a cracking good chat! So click below!
https://youtu.be/2X5d5Uu4OCUWalkin’, talkin’, squawkin’, and tele-tubing! #ednontechIf this audio could talk, the things it would squawk! #ednontech
The first day of summer: Whoda thunk it?As we drift into the early, early days of a summer that shall no doubt be thought of later as having “blinked past”, I’m grateful in my un-erhm-self-employed situ to have such rad pursuits as podcasting, interviewing, and writing on the full-time, on the regular!
For sure, I have less than half my life left… that’s just math… and so my questions about next steps and so forth are more along the lines of “what’s best for my wellness” and “how sane and happy will I feel” and so forth… as being more pertinent than say… strictly financial criteria…
And so, to that end… I’m stoked with pretty much all aspects of what’s going on… given that what happens is a function of nature expressing its will in some way… being unhappy about it would be worse than pointless… it would be literally counter-productive…
Thanks as ever for the Stoics, and in particular Marcus Aurelius for his Meditations!
506 Consulting (2022) Ltd., Updates!I’m pleased to announce that my pal Matt Gay has accepted my generous offer of pro bono employment, sans benefits, as Principal Consultant– Upper Canada with 506 Consulting (2022), Ltd. Updates to the website will be coming soon!
We are legitimately thrilled that Mr. Gay will taking part as an equal partner in 506 endeavors, and we look forward to many fruitful, not to say downright MOIST, collaborations in the short, medium, and long terms!
Matt is first and foremost an intelligent, educated, thoughtful, hilarious guy! None of my friends come close to making laugh like this dude! Sorry, not sorry, other friends… you know this as well as I do to be true!
He’s also a legitimate threat as a musician, having ripped gaping bloody holes across multiple acts, locations, and venues over two-and-a-half decades… terrorizing.. and mesmerizing!… the Atlantic Canadian, Quebec, and Ontario punk scenes in such time(s)!
Born Into This (Wollard/Bukowski)DURTYBUNNY by CRO(W)SIt’s funny, the confluence between these two artists whom I greatly admire… poet laureate of whatever, Buk… and Florida punk musician Chris Wollard from Ship Thieves and Hot Water Music and The Sheryl Cro(w) Mags and many other things.
Bukowski is a writer of some notoriety/renown… some debauchedness… Nick Cave famously hates his writing… you can’t deny the man goes full scrotological… speaking freely of his debasedness… and elevating it some fashion in doing so…
I can’t believe I feel like I even have to defend somebody I enjoy this much! As with any writer… ditch the chaff, and locate the good stuff… if you can be bothered to, that is!
Bukowski wrote a book and a poem called Born Into This… and they did a documentary about him called the same… and Ship Thieves have a song called Born Into This on their excellent LP from a few years back entitled “No Anchor”! Sick is what all of it is… you’re doing yourself a serious disservice if you miss any of it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Z1_pw0HeYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu62kQha8hsbukClick here to download the poem which you can hear me reading directly above!
Doug’s NotesTraditional Teaching Practice: Where we came fromThree different methods of instruction are utilized in the present investigation. These include the instructor-centered method, the stu- dent-centered method, and the eclectic method.
The eclectic method did not confine itself to any one manner of presentation. A combination of many instructional techniques was used. These included many of the techniques used in the two methods previously described.
Krumboltz, J. D., & Farquhar, W. W. (1957). The effect of three teaching methods on achievement and motivational and outcomes in a how-to-study course. Psychological Monographs: General and Applied, 71(14), 1.
There are more people in the world than ever before, and a far greater part of them want an education. The demand cannot be met simply by building more schools and training more teachers. Education must become more efficient. … In any other field a demand for increased production would have led at once to the invention of labor-saving capital equipment.
in the 192O’s, when Sidney L. Pressey designed several machines for the automatic testing of intelligence and information. … Pressey’s machines succumbed in part to cultural inertia; the world of education was not ready for them.
Skinner, B. F. (1958). Teaching Machines: From the experimental study of learning come devices which arrange optimal conditions for self-instruction. Science, 128(3330), 969-977.
Teaching effectiveness is today a national concern… the top priority is given to “the mounting shortage of excellent teachers.”
“Teaching a large class other than through television is more demanding than teaching a small class…. The amount of time necessary to develop cases and problems … is much greater than the time required to handle the course by lecture.”
Hatch, W. R., & Bennet, A. B. F. (1960). Effectiveness in teaching (No. 2). US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education.
OU teaching methods and the OU budget
The teaching system has the following main components.
A. CORRESPONDENCE MATERIALS
B. TV AND RADIO BROADCASTS
C. FACE-TO-FACE TEACHING
D. HOME EXPERIMENTAL KITS AND STUDENT COMPUTING SERVICE
Laidlaw, B., & Layard, R. (1974). Traditional versus Open University teaching methods: a cost comparison. Higher education, 3(4), 439-468.
Pressey’s Teaching Machine – originally only offered multiple choice questions
https://www.si.edu/object/pressey-teaching-machine:nmah_1367149
Suggestopedia … The theory applied positive suggestion in teaching when it was developed in the 1970s. Suggestopedia gets its name from the term “suggestologiya” – the science of the suggestion and “suggestopeadiya” – suggestology section devoted to the theory and practice of suggestion in teaching. A distinctive feature of this method is the disclosure of memory reserves, raising the intellectual activity, the use of suggestion, relaxation.
Nurutdinova, A. R., Perchatkina, V. G., Zinatullina, L. M., Zubkova, G. I., & Galeeva, F. T. (2016). Innovative teaching practice: traditional and alternative methods (challenges and implications). International journal of environmental and science education, 11(10), 3807-3819.
Word of the PodcastTradition
Question of the PodcastIs tradition just peer pressure from dead people?
Phrase of the PodcastCultural inertia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT4vnGKeFJAYou know you’re born into this
You can’t ignore it
You’re born into this
Then you blink and it’s gone #ednontechTradition would have it that this is where we shall gratefully see you to the door, and wish you a short and uneventful trip home!
Welcome, friends and colleagues!
I am absolutely thrilled to share our EnT conversation with Dr. Laura L. Flanagan, Esq. PhD!
Laura is, among many things, a writer, visual artist, lawyer, entrepreneur, and lifelong resident of New York City! Her forthcoming book about cooking is called Hardcore Vegetarian: Welcome to the Vegedome!, and it is available for pre-order from most major online retailers, or will be soon!
Please check our convo out below! And be sure to check out the Notes, Resources, & Commentary as well!
https://youtu.be/rW10XhzDIBcFrom one Northeaster to another… and to you all! #ednontechAudio via NYC & NB-CA AKA “The (50)6”! #ednontech
Notes, Resources, & CommentaryWe covered a lot in our discussion! And so, I will defer largely to what you’ve already seen or heard!
As mentioned, Laura’s book is called Hardcore Vegetarian: Welcome to the Vegedome! and it is available for pre-order on Amazon!
Beyond being a talented, experienced writer and editor Laura is also a gifted visual artist, and her work is available for purchase online!
Furthermore, Laura manages New York Hardcore punk legends Cro-Mags! Cro-Mags are preparing to head out on a tour of Europe, and will be playing shows and festivals throughout the remainder of 2024!
When I asked Laura via email about some of her favorite musicians and writers, this is what she said:
My “favorite” authors are too numerous to count – and write in too many different genres. Music also- I am all over the place. Both Harley and I listen to so many different genres of music that it would be impossible to choose favorites. But my favorite classical composer by a long shot is JSB, and when I need to focus- I always go there. My very favorite book of fiction would have to be Crime and Punishment.
Dr. Laura L. Flanagan, Esq. PhD
Laura also notes that her philosophical thinking has been most influenced by Immanuel Kant, Theodor Adorno, and Michel Foucault!
Some points from one of Laura’s significant professional networks jumped out at me, especially as I prepared these notes after the recordings!
What Makes Me Uniquely Me* I am a New York native, born and raised on the Upper East Side Of Manhattan. * I wrote a book about cooking called “Hard-Core Vegetarian” which will be released in 2024 on Feral House Press. * I am a writer, editor, producer, and manage a legendary band. * I am an avid equestrian. * I paint and draw. * I speak Italian fluently and have dual citizenship with Italy.
I believe that we touched on many of these points in our chat… but not all of them!
As a lifelong fan of punk and alternative and all sub-genres of guitar-based music, and as a vegetarian, and as a fan of narrative, storytelling, and food generally, I found this convo highly fun, informative, and rad! I will take the opportunity here to share a link to one of my favorite American poems of all time… The Hard Core of Beauty… by legendary New Jersey doctor and poet William Carlos Williams!
I’ll leave the final words of these notes to Laura!
Food is a primordial expression of love.
Dr. Laura L. Flanagan, Esq. PhD
We are deeply grateful to Dr. Flanagan for spending some time on our podcast! Please be sure to check back again sooner than later!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ38g4X7WE4We’re a happy family
We’re a happy family
We’re a happy family
Me, mom and daddy #ednontech
In this conversation, Doug and I had the absolute privilege of chatting with Dr. Tony Bates of the Open University (UK), University of British Columbia, Contact North, his own consulting firm, and many other affiliations both formal and informal too numerous to list here!
Tony is among a handful of researchers who have, over more than four decades, helped elevate the practice and development of distance and online learning in ways macro, meso, and micro… all substantive, informed by data, and taking into account settings, contexts, and practices across the larger, international scene(s) as well!
Please click below for one our best #ednontech conversations so far!
https://youtu.be/H_HIqrSn0yMWe’ve never been this chuffed!! #ednontechWe are unreservedly stoked at this particular audio! #ednontech
You be ~~me~~ Chewbacca for a while
And I’ll be you #ednontech
Matt’s NotesHow little I have to actually add by way of further commentary!
Dr. Bates is among the top e-learning researchers and practitioners of all time. You can switch out “e-learning” with your choice of semantic preference… “computer-assisted learning”… “distance learning”… “online learning”…
Tony and associates and colleagues have explored a wide swath of the Canadian and international research, practice, and implementation of significant, formative technologies in real time. Tony was there when the Internet first started being used to teach. My career… and Doug’s career… and many others likely reading this… began way, way after…
Do yourself the immense favour of checking Tony’s website!: https://www.tonybates.ca/
So… I can’t offer further resources than can be provided at Tony’s website! It is updated on the regular! And… he is… selectively… available to speaking engagements and the like! As evidenced by his participation in the EnT convos!
In all seriousness, I can’t think of a higher objective for this show than what we achieved today. Doug has told me emphatically he agrees!
Thanks, Dr. Bates, for everything! And thanks to you for checking it out!A Little More Time with Reigning Sound by Reigning Sound
It’s the latest in our ongoing series of chats with serious practitioners in various areas of endeavor! A couple of days ago, I got to have a convo with Chuck Bowie, a talented, prolific author of suspense novels here in Atlantic Canada… and increasingly on the national scene, as well!
It was absolutely rad speaking with Chuck, not just on account of his significant literary achievements… as you’ll see if you click below!
https://youtu.be/ZBdVpbXxzA4From various parts of southern NB to you and yours! #ednontechIf we were paid by the word for this audio, we’d be slightly wealthier than we already are! #ednontech
Matt’s NotesI’m going to necessarily keep these comments brief… because in this case, the conversation was, to my mind, so rich as to need little academic, professional, or artistic context beyond the immediate media!
Er…
But seriously, Chuck has written five excellent novels so far in his Donovan series… as well as three mysteries under his Alexa Bowie pseudonym… as well as contributing to collections of short stories… all of which can be found at his website!
An author… and a gentleman! #ednontech
I would be remiss if I let these notes go by without mentioning that, in addition of writing novels and stories, Chuck has worked tirelessly as late with the Writers Federation of New Brunswick… as well as other groups through his speaking, writing, and teaching activities… all of which help to raise the profile of the literary arts in Atlantic Canada…
Chuck is also the dad to two of the best people I’ve ever met… he is a patriarch of some renown whose kids, grandkids, and wider circle of friends, family, and supporters… are making serious contributions to government, sports, music, and literature… and I literally can’t imagine the trajectory my life would have taken were it not for Chuck, Lois, and Jon! Ok.. that’s it for the personal stuff…
Friends, in this case I’ll say the pleasure has been ours… and most definitely yours! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQSPBC4fS4And there’s a woman in Ireland and my gossiping song would be sweeter to her
Than harp music; there’s a woman in Ireland who would prefer nothing more #ednontech
Folks, I am absolutely stoked to share our latest EnT conversation! Today I had the supreme privilege of speaking with Dr. Nicole Johnson, Executive Director at Canadian Digital Learning Research Association (CDLRA)! Please see the clip and/or listen to the audio below!
https://youtu.be/MY-VNhreDKsFrom the Upper and/or Futuristic Mainland! #ednontechThe future’s so bright, and we’ve forgotten to wear shades! #ednontech
Matt’s NotesFirst and foremost, I’d like to say thanks to Dr. Johnson for joining us today! And also for her immediately positive response via a LinkedIn message… and also for rescheduling from last week when my computer melted from a power surge… a regrettable situ which has subsequently been resolved, thanks!
Dr. Johnson and colleagues’ significant work in our sector ALMOST speaks for itself! I will defer to all things we spoke to in the recordings, rather than belabor these notes herein!
In all seriousness, the annual survey(s) carried out by CDLRA are providing deeply rich and significant macro… and micro!… level information about how teaching and learning is being conceptualized and delivered in Canada… and proving guidance through various outputs… reports, consultations, and other… wherein, hopefully, we can all share such resources, approaches, and publications… and step up our game as a sector within the wider educational endeavor… from sea… to sea… to sea… and so forth!
Please do yourselves the immense favor of visiting the primary CDLRA site… and also Dr. Johnson’s absolutely rad professional website and/or her LinkedIn… in fact, just click on all three!
Thanks to Dr. Johnson for joining us… to the CDLRA for all their excellent work… and to you for checking out this podcast!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN9i5Z01kFIOn a star beyond the chart
Or the dark side of a drop of rain
Determining where you are #ednontech
Matt’s NotesHey everyone! And welcome to our episode on too much tech in education! I can (fairly) say that I’ve seldom found a topic so weirdly mirthful as this… so kudos to Doug for choosing it… and thanks to you for checking it out!
https://youtu.be/XeIWRYW0YOoRepping our respective teams (to the max)! #ednontech59-59… (is not) the Number of the Beast! #ednontech
(Emails of) The Apocalypse Er… that last heading may be a little… hyperbolic?
These emails have been sitting in my inbox for so long… I keep thinking I’ll find time to go through them thoroughly… or put them to (some kind of) use… and so… (entirely) in the interests of getting a few of these off the docket… don’t judge me too harshly…
Inside North Korea’s Forced Labor ProgramI subscribe and then unsubscribe from email newsletters on the regular. I have yet to unsubscribe from The New Yorker. This story is from their Feb 25/24 newsletter.
I lived in South Korea for more than a year at the beginning of my teaching career, back in 2006. My kids’ mom is Korean. South Korea is one of the most dynamic, vibrant countries in the world… that I’ve experienced… and the border, the so-called “demilitarized zone” (DMZ) is one of the weirdest, spookiest places I’ve ever been…
This story is no doubt heartbreaking… as is the complicity of North American markets in creating demand for cheap consumer goods from China… sigh… on second thought, I’m not going to delete this one after all…
How to Eat Like a StoicAnybody following this podcast or any of my social media know my deep affinity for Stoic philosophy… particularly the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius…
Donald Robertson is an author and academic who has written several novel books on Marcus… including a graphic novel… and he also has a podcast and a Substack newsletter Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life… both of which are worth your time! And, come to think of it, the Substack newsletter is a pretty cool thing as a format, generally…
ANYWAY… this edition has some lively, informative historical info and commentary… and recipe for “Stoic Soup”… however I doubt given my general disposition against significant food preparation… that I will actually prepare this… awesome though it surely is! I don’t know if this makes me more, or less Stoic… but the newsletter is definitely rad!
Blood Meridian Google Earth MapSpeaking of apocalyptic! Anyone who follows this podcast or my social media knows… how much I love Cormac McCarthy’s novels… and perhaps especially Blood Meridian. And so I learned about this very cool, Social Studies-esque rendering of more than 120 locations from across the southern US and deep into Mexico as described in the novel… this is AWESOME… not to put too fine a point on it… and it’s this kind of thing that keeps me subscribed to weekly summaries of the Reddit Cormac McCarthy page… among others!
[POEM] Bukowski – 2 p.m. beerSpeaking of Reddit! And some of my favorite authors!
Listen, you can say what you like about Bukowski. Many have. And there’s lots to criticize. I’ll agree to the gist of most the criticism!
But it doesn’t change the fact that I dig it… unapologetically!
Click below to hear me reading this one! Or don’t!
20-20-20-4 (Hours to Go)All I am saying is that I’ve recently been chatting with a medical doctor from Brazil… and the first rock band she really got into… before Nirvana… was Ramones!
If this is your first time or your hundred-thousand-something-th time… Road to Ruin will make you dance, (blitzkrieg) bop, shimmy, shout, shake… and possibly other symptoms… but only if you have a pulse!
Respect to those who’ve done something outstanding… in just about any field of endeavor… educational, punk, or otherwise!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjiTzVyXRFELife is a Highway (of Doom!) #ednontech
Doug’s NotesThe danger of too much technology in EducationIn short, students will not have a full and rich education without being able to develop competence in the use of computers and other forms of technology.
Daresh, J. C. (2006). Technology and school leaders: overdue or overload?. Journal of Thought, 41(1), 27-39.
Nowadays, most of the concerns for defining educational patterns are related to the fact that we are facing a situation of ‘information overload’, where mass communication, big data, 20 Rumors-Editorials and an indiscriminate proliferation of information constitute the principal layer of pedagogical experiences and mind-feeding. If some aspects of this overload reflect the contemporary potentiality of new devices and new infrastructures … we cannot consider this phenomenon to be one that is completely new.
by the dynamics of a network society and participatory culture to delineate a digital media ecosystem as productive learning environment for students and teachers.
Ciastellardi, M. (2013). Education Overload. McLuhan and the Quest for New Patterns in the Era of Total Surround. In Education Overload. From Total Surround to Pattern Recognition (pp. 19-24). UOC Press.
… increased usage of technology tools does not always lead to increased work productivity; rather, sometimes it actually can be counterproductive.
… cognitive load theory which posits that optimal learning occurs when an individual’s working memory is minimized so that long term memory can be facilitated (Sweller, 1988).
Karr-Wisniewski, P., & Lu, Y. (2010). When more is too much: Operationalizing technology overload and exploring its impact on knowledge worker productivity. Computers in Human Behavior, 26(5), 1061-1072.
Technology overload is described as “techno-stress” or “techno-invasion.”
Technology overload is a new phenomenon in the field of human-computer interactions.
Rasool, T., Warraich, N. F., & Sajid, M. (2022). Examining the impact of technology overload at the workplace: A systematic review. SAGE Open, 12(3), 21582440221114320.
Word of the PodcastOverload
Question of the PodcastHow can we appraise all the impacts of technology usage in educational settings? When is too much too much?
Phrase of the PodcastDon’t expect that to be permanent, friends.
You need to get a wooden stake and hammer it through the heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm51ihfi1p420-20-20-4 hours to go… we wanna be sedated! #ednontechIf we (somehow) survive the incipient techno-pocalypse, rest assured you can (probably) count on us to open our bunker gates for you!
Matt’s NotesWelcome one and all to the latest EnT! We are going all in on change in education… and the role of ed tech therein and/or therewith and/or whyfor… please have at the clicking and/or otherwise checking in below!
https://youtu.be/NIxAqGgkyH4What has four arms, two heads, and more guts than you can shake a stick at? #ednontechIf it weren’t for the viewing, this listening would be a “total experience” #ednontech
Interviews, and more interviews!As we spoke to during the episode, we have… mumble-mutter… A NUMBER of interviews lined up in the month of June… and perhaps beyond…
Basically, LinkedIn has been extremely helpful in this regard.
It took having my job with the Commissionaire Corps of Canada eliminated for this to happen. For the foreseeable future… i.e., until I have a “regular” job again… whether in a week or six months or longer… I’m treating this podcast and the music podcast… and other kinds of writing… as a full-time job…
And so… reaching out to colleagues through LinkedIn… who just happen to be some of the top people in the e-learning / ed tech / learning design area. I’m not saying who until the episodes have been recorded… as a matter of principle… but as I sit here typing these notes early Monday morning… we have two interviews scheduled within the next 72 hours with people who I think will bring A LOT to the show…
As such, it was absolutely brilliant speaking with Dave Cormier a few days ago about his excellent, highly necessary Learning in a Time of Abundance… and the Uncertainty conference in July… AKA #ShrugCon…
Anyway, once we have interviews posted with 9 or 10 of the top e-learning people in the world in the next few weeks… we may be in a position to begin work on the long-gestating ED NON-TECH (ENT) BOOK…
Again, it’s a function of not having a “regular” job that I have time to act on this stuff…
You might say it’s downright fortuitous… and that’s saying nothing of my interviews scheduled this week for a couple of “regular” jobs… either of which could be highly rad…
TRU Education 5040As per LinkedIn…
Please click here to check out the Ed non-Tech lecture on EDI! There are currently 77 comments in total… with more on the way!
Turning 46Speaking of change… and changes…
On the one hand, any birthday in your forties really is a nothing year. I am squarely in the middle of life. My grandfather passed away around this time last year… at the age of 90.
If I’m lucky, I have half my life left. But as per the Stoics, as long as I’m living a good life… then I should be ready to go anytime…
What I can say at this point is that I have the best family, friends, and colleagues in the world. And over this past weekend, I realized that again writ large.
Backyard hangs. Long drives. Family heirloom beer steins. World-class grilled sausages. Lemon meringue pie and pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Cross-country phone calls and long-distance doggo pictures. One cat and then another. Piles of craft beer. Heavy food at Boston Pizza. Auntie hugs that nearly take the wind out of you.
Yeah, more of these things please. I am one lucky self-employed son-of-a-gun. You’d have to be thick as a brick not to see it…
Gather Up the Chapshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBBY6XuPLlshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxV4AttsR50Man, there’s just something about the Lawrence Arms.
There are days that go past where I listen to nothing but the greatest (non-)hits collection We are the Champions of the World. Somehow I’ve been a fan of punk and other heavy music since I was a child… but had missed Larry Limbs until around two years ago… when I embarked on:
A) Starting these podcasts
B) Buying many (many!) thousands of dollars of vinyl records
…both of which were functions of being without work for the first time in many (many!) years.
Larry operates on a basic principle: three-piece Chicago punk with two singers that veers into pop territory, but really owes more to dark, ugly folk music than anything else…
It’s danceable as fuck, is how I’d put it if I were writing these notes for the other podcast!
I’ve gotten the Flappy logo as a forearm tattoo, and I’ve direct messaged the band’s IG and guitarist Chris McCaughan IG many (many!) times… the only thing I can say is that if anyone from Larry appears on the music podcast to interview, it’ll be a minor miracle… but on the other hand, neither Larry nor Chris have blocked me at this point…
ANYWAY
Because they have so much talent, Brendan Kelly and Neil Hennessy from Larry started the Falcon, which also includes Dan Andriano from Alkaline Trio and Dave Hause from Philly’s The Loved Ones… Brendan moving from bass to guitar and primary vocal duties… with Dan on bass and some vocals, Neil on drums, and Dave on guitar and some other vocals. They have at least two full-length releases… including Gather Up the Chaps…
It slays is all. And I can’t stop listening to it right now. Here’s hoping to exorcize these earworms by blasting them through this here blog format!
My name is Matt, and this has been a public service announcement…
Doug’s NotesChange in Education: What role does EdTech play in this?… retrospection may help us answer the question of how the current push for integrating technology into schools might compare with the histories of previous technologies in educational reform.
… a common pattern that the introduction and use of past instructional technologies have tended to follow. … the ‘exhilaration / scientific-credibility / disappointment / teacher-bashing cycle”.
Kent, T. W., & McNergney, R. F. (1999). Will technology really change education? From blackboard to Web. Corwin Press, Inc., A Sage Publications Company, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320.
Change. It happens. Why should we care or try to understand its nature? Change surrounds us; we are immersed regularly in its process.
Ellsworth, J. B. (2000). Surviving Change: A Survey of Educational Change Models. ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology, Syracuse University, 621 Skytop Rd., Suite 160, Syracuse, NY 13244-5290.
All educational organizations need to innovate and to develop their practices to keep pace with social and technological change, and to respond to economic pressures. In this situation, teachers need to adopt new professional roles, cultivate their professional identities, and incorporate new insights into their professional practices
Vähäsantanen, K. (2015). Professional agency in the stream of change: Understanding educational change and teachers’ professional identities. Teaching and teacher education, 47, 1-12.
Building on the concept of an instructional regime, as described by Cohen and Ball (1999), educators and policymakers need to stop thinking of learning software as an intervention in and of itself and to think instead of broader instructional activity systems (Roschelle, Knudsen, & Hegedus, 2009) defined by:
- Learning content
- Learning activities, only some of which are technology-based
- Articulation between a given learning activity system and other systems the student is exposed to
- Teacher professional development and collaboration around
- implementation of the instructional activity system Assessments for learning
- Use of data to refine the instructional activity on an ongoing basis.
Means, B. (2010). Technology and education change: Focus on student learning. Journal of research on technology in education, 42(3), 285-307.
Word of the PodcastChange / (or Disruption)
Question of the PodcastHow can we make change easier to adapt to in education?
Phrase of the PodcastWhen it is not in keeping with the students needs…
Many thanks for stopping by! We’re looking forward to next time!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhpezwGtDEgQuickly, follow the unknown with something more familiar
Quickly, something familiar
Courage, my word, it didn’t come, it doesn’t matter #ednontech
Welcome to our latest in the EnT conversation series!
I am absolutely stoked that Dave Cormier agreed to join us for a conversation about his excellent new book Learning in a Time of Abundance (John Hopkins Press)!
Dave is, among many other things, Digital Learning Specialist with the Office of Open Learning at the University of Windsor where he handles a diverse range of responsibilities and clients.
I’ve been aware of Dave and colleagues’ work for as long as I’ve been involved in the learning technology field… going on fifteen years at this point… as rowdy, and boisterous, and motley as that field can be… Dave has constantly been an advocate for teaching and learning approaches, especially in the e-learning sphere, that value inquiry… not accepting the status quo… to question everything…
Please check the media below to check out our discussion!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w8hxPx661wYou can take the byes out of the bay, but not the bay out of the byes! #ednontechIf you wanted high-quality digital audio about high-quality online teaching and learning things… you’re probably in the right spot! #ednontech
Matt’s NotesHonestly, I’d prefer to let the conversation speak for itself… it’s hard to beat a chat with somebody as smart, incisive, and all-around knowledgeable about the micro- and the macro- within our… as mentioned… ROWDY professional and academic area… whether we’re calling that ed tech… learning tech… educational design… the new what next…
*This is from the Introduction of Dave’s book (Kindle edition)
What I’ve appreciated about watching some of the public aspects of Dave’s career… whether conference presentation, online videos, academic papers, or blogs… is how committed he is to engaging fully with whomever he’s addressing… bringing in personal examples, using metaphors and approaches to communicating which invite thoughtful participation from people outside the field of professional educators… this ability is not as common as one might expect…
Much appreciation and respect to Dave for responding quickly via LinkedIn and for his willingness to chat with us today! Learning in a Time of Abundance is a significant resource which we’ll be coming back to on the show in the coming weeks and months, for sure…
Another screenshot from Dave’s book that landed with me… uncertainty abounds! And has abounded!
Resources via Dave / #ShrugConBesides checking out the book, every/anybody reading this should be sure to join the first Uncertainty Conference! It is, fortunately, online… and proposals are still being accepted!
Dave’s blog has been running since at least 2006… it is a pretty amazing resource because it’s highly readable and also… it’s voluminous! It’s all recommended…
Thanks to Dave for joining us for this conversation! And thanks to you for checking it out!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn2CHFpksfI
Matt’s NotesWelcome to the latest EnT… you down with EnT… yeah, you know me!
Uh… pardon me…
On this episode we’re all about podcasting… vis-à-vis this here podcast format! Never shall we ever miss an opportunity to go as fully meta as we can on this show!
If click is part of your impetus for being here, then by all means click away!
https://youtu.be/wKmIGrgCjgEWe’re as deeply meta as we are handsome! #ednontechTimes will change… but our #ednontech, maybe not so much!
(I’m Going Through) ChangesAs mentioned during the episode, things look a lot different for me professionally than they did a few days ago!
While I’m still processing the emotional and financial (mostly financial) aspects of what this means, for sure I’m motivated by the fact that:
A) I am 100% proud of the significant e-learning development that I completed from conception to delivery over the better part of ten months… literally dozens of e-learning modules… to say nothing of the technology and instructional design and project management skills and professional development this role entailed…
B) I am 100% committed to finding a role which is relevant, personally meaningful, engaging on a day-to-day level… and much closer to my kids, in BC!
C) There is no acceptable tradeoff at this point for positive work-life balance. Any job that causes any amount of stress or significant energy or effort outside of working hours is not the role for me… after nearly a half-a-century on Planet Earth…
I’ve made significant efforts recently to downsize my imprint as a consumer… as a person who owns and buys physical things on the regular… this is in keeping with the principles of the Stoic philosophers… including Marcus Aurelius… material possessions being neither good nor bad in and of themselves…
Anything that gets in the way of relocating closer to my kids as expediently as possible is to be worked through… the object needing work is the way forward…
As long as you have a goal when you get up each day, things are usually going OK. My most precarious, harrowing times with mental health crises were characterized by lacking awareness of how to move forward in any endeavor in a positive way… stasis… mental and physical weakness…
And so on and so forth! I’m extremely grateful to my excellent family, friends, and colleagues who have expressed their care, support, and awesome humor in times such as these… and so… there will be a more tangibly educational thrust to these notes… with the next episode! But not this one…
https://youtu.be/zfaOf70M4xs?si=mronCkShRuvhhUschttps://youtu.be/5h959KRTiccBrothers in… tentacles! #ednontechDoug’s NotesPodcasting in Ed TechImagine a liberal-arts university supplying its community, and the world, with “profcasts” of classes and presentations delivered by its talented instructors.
Campbell, G. (2005). Podcasting in education. EDUCAUSE, Nov/Dec, 5(2005), 33-44.
While the usage of iPods, podcasts and other on-demand technologies continue to affect society, it appears that educational settings have not yet adapted to accommodate their use in classrooms.
Reid, D., Kervin, L., Vardy, J., & Hindle, C. (2006, July 14-16). We’ve got the iPods, but where do we start? The story of two grade 4 teachers. Paper published at the Mobile Learning 2006, Dublin, Ireland, (pp. 218-221).
If students do not utilize or do not realize the benefits of the self-pacing multimedia characteristics of podcasting, then the resource becomes a more likely contributor to cognitive overload.
Walls, S. M., Kucsera, J. V., Walker, J. D., Acee, T. W., McVaugh, N. K., & Robinson, D. H. (2010). Podcasting in education: Are students as ready and eager as we think they are?. Computers & education, 54(2), 371-378.
… the podcasting task provided opportunities for the course lecturer, tutors and students to learn and share ideas with one another. The experience empowered students to develop the skills and confidence to initiate more independent inquiry into technologies to support their pedagogical purposes.
Forbes, D., & Khoo, E. (2015). Voice over distance: A case of podcasting for learning in online teacher education. Distance Education, 36(3), 335-350.
Platforms are “open” in the sense that they enable users to easily create, store, and distribute media content with little to no technical knowledge. This “openness” is bounded in important ways, however. For example, users typically have little control over the storage or modification of their data. In addition, the algorithms that make their content available to other platform users are often opaque at best.
Sullivan, J. L. (2019). The platforms of podcasting: Past and present. Social media+ society, 5(4), 2056305119880002.
Doug’s Favourite Learning PodcastsBig Ideas https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas
Ed non-Tech https://oyos.ca/ENT/ or https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/
In Our Time https://www.bbcpodcasts.com/listen/in-our-time/
Let’s make a https://amp.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1061-lets-make-a
Patented https://shows.acast.com/patented-history-of-inventions
The Debaters https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thedebaters
The Happiness Lab https://www.drlauriesantos.com/happiness-lab-podcast
Word of the PodcastPodcasting
Question of the PodcastWhat will it take for podcasting to be used regularly in classrooms?
Phrase of the PodcastThe algorithm will serve me up …
AndI don’t even want to know more about it.
Thanks for turning your dial this way! Catch you further down the media line!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x309D4ABLv0Use just once and destroy
Invasion of our piracy
Afterbirth of a nation
Starve without your skeleton key #ednontech
Matt’s NotesThanks one and all for checking out the EnT today!
As mentioned in the notes for… cough… the episode AFTER THIS ONE… I’m putting in the necessary elbow grease to get a VERITABLE TRIFECTA of episodes out the door… primarily so that I don’t have to think about them anymore! And uh… you know, positive motivation as well… stunt production… mumble… mutter…
AND: we’re all about the WordPress in education with this episode! Perhaps unsurprisingly, we have opinions!
Rest in Power, Steve Albini! (1962-2024)
Please click below as per your preferences!
https://youtu.be/l46joHJI91oWhere would it be but for the powers of creativity?? #ednontechSteve Albini would have no use for this podcast whatsoever! And that’s OK! #stevealbini #ednontech
Somewhere in the recording of… the next episode!… the term “stunt production” came up!
It’s not the first time I’ve resorted to such tricks in the course of these podcasts… and, wretchedly, it won’t be the last. As much as it’s a drag in the moment, it’s always a tad… exhilarating… when it finally comes together and you can… PUT THE WHOLE DANGED ENTERPRISE ASIDE AGAIN… which is, for me, crucial to mental/emotional wellness… to say nothing of the creative process generally… DOWNTIME, folks… never doubt its importance for healing and growing stronger!
Anyway, that’s probably better saved for EPISODE 56… which you should also totally check out! But, you know, I’m pretty biased…
So… a few things that have been keeping me busy… or occupying mental and emotional real estate! You say potato… I say… SEA CUCUMBER… er…
Rest in Power, Steve Albinihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvMfLEdtWLYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKHsSz1dAacIt’s hard to describe the effect it had this week.
For sure there is absolutely no direct connection between myself and this person. And yet, he’s touched dozens if not hundreds of my favourite recordings… stuff I’ve listened to, in aggregate, many hundreds or thousands of hours over the years…
So… on the basis of nothing more or less significant and “impactful” than that… I’ve spent even more time in the “musical zone” mentally and emotionally than normal lately… definitely SAD is the lesser emotion to awe… at how productive and impactful and consistent one can be when committed to a vision of anything… and the general fragility of human life, generally… my parents are both still with us, thankfully, both closer to Steve’s age (61) than to mine (nearly 46)…
I think of Steve as a kind of generational figure. And he would unreservedly deny that. His hating the fuck out that sentiment is probably not out of the question either…
Nirvana: In Uterohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6P0SitRwy8This album landed like a tonne of bricks.
I have a distinct, though largely composite, memory of Art class in the fall of grade ten… where I sat with a couple of rad dudes from that year… people I only seemed to share that one class with… or only a couple, anyway… including my best pal Jon Bowie…
Nirvana is for sure closely associated with my memories of hanging out with Jon.
We were both keyed as hell into Nevermind… complete with air guitar freaking out to Endless Nameless…
And so when this landed in the fall of grade ten… it landed heavily… and Jon was kind enough to dub his copy of the CD onto a Maxwell 90 minute cassette as soon he got it…
SERIOUSLY POSITIVE VIBES associated with this record in other words…
Not too long later, it turns out this dude Steve Albini in Chicago has produced the album… fine…
Big Black / Rapeman / Shellachttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMG8TUfnD7QTotally unfortunate edgelord bullshit! Worst name for a band ever. 100%,
Pre-incel! No doubt…
And yet… his is a trajectory of always defying his shittalking with legitimately endlessly inventively radical music upon production upon community-building…
And one-time victims of his significant vitriol… i.e, Sonic Youth… have spoken at length and passionately about the artist and the person who was Steve…
And, in recent years… he’s made a point of unabashedly calling out his former youthful self out for harmful discourse and general shittiness… at no point pandering or trying to make false excuses… it’s singular, is all… maybe especially in the realm of popular music…
Recordings Upon Recordings Upon Recordingshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNvx30Zuo3whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_abyrFy4yQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIyUl10ChQOK… the first three non-musician-Steve records I think of, besides Nevermind or Surfer Rosa…
The Pacific Ocean EP by Thrush Hermit… which I’ve never actually listened to… but it’s local to the Maritimes… it’s early Joel Plaskett recordings… and Joel is highly rad… and it’s proof Steve would work with anyone willing to pay his fee, outside of personal interest in the music…
The next thing is, in aggregate, anything by the Jesus Lizard that he was involved in. It’s hard to imagine, but once upon a time the Chicago noise legends were at the bottom fringes of the Billboard Hot 200 or whatever…
And the last thing that I think of right away is the Pod LP, the Breeders’ first record… which, like the Thrush Hermit, I’ve yet to dive into!
Evidence of a significant artist is how much awesomeness remains out there for the generations to follow. He fucking knocked it out of the park on that score.
Electrical Audio, cats, and the World Series of Pokerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubqWbfg2elQ&t=1369s There are so many pictures out there of him holding cats…
He won TWO gold bracelets at the World Series of Poker… a serious, legitimate contender every time he played a game…
He challenged Nirvana to a game of pool for the balance of his fee… or else his fee would be doubled… and they turned him down…
His band Shellac has a record coming out next week and it is going to be huge feelings all over again, probably
A sixty-one year old dude in Chicago passed away from a heart attack this past week, and it definitely stands out. Thanks for all of it, sir!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJOdvLHvfawhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95hYuhGY1fYFrom such humble beginnings… #ednontechDoug’s Notes WordPress – a deep diveAs the use of WordPress in education continues to grow, many third-party developers have created plugins specific to the needs of educators.
Scott, A. D. (2012). WordPress for education. Packt Publishing Ltd.
From a technical point of view, WordPress allowed us to build a multimedia enriched ePortfolio system by expanding its basic functions with additional and freely available plugins. This was possible due to the high flexibility and great variety of plugins provided by WordPress, in combination with simple PHP programming.
Avila, J., Sostmann, K., Breckwoldt, J., & Peters, H. (2016). Evaluation of the free, open source software WordPress as electronic portfolio system in undergraduate medical education. BMC medical education, 16, 1-10.
The purpose of creating an online community was to enable school teachers, student-teachers, and university instructors to freely share their thoughts about teaching and learning as well as reveal a personal side of themselves.
Hall, J. M. (2019). Negative and positive aspects of using WordPress to facilitate reflective practice in pre-service teacher education. AI and machine learning in language education, 18-32.
Currently, there exist more than 60.8% of the web pages are based on WordPress, or according to statistics, by June 2019, WordPress was used in 27.5% of the 10 million most popular Internet web sites (WordPress, 2020).
Ivanov, V., & Tzankova, J. (2020). Online distance education on WordPress web based platform as an innovation in the learning process of sports students from medical university–Sofia during the pandemic of COVID-19. Pedagogy, 92(7), 143-51.
Word of the PodcastWordPress
Question of the PodcastIs WordPress worth using?
Phrase of the PodcastThe simplicity of the interface belies the complexity of the product.
Folks, we are positively CHUFFED you’ve chosen to join us for this episode! We’ll catch you next time!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTkUOf2wlcEMy heart is home my heart is
My head is done my head is done
We’re going home we’re going
I’m not alone I’m not alone
My heart is home my heart is #ednontech
Matt’s NotesHey hey, my my… #ednontech will (hopefully)(probably) never die!
As we’re going full-on EPISODE TRIFECTA… i.e., three episodes being released probably in one or two days… I’ll not let these notes get in the way of a completely arbitrary production schedule!
Thanks and/or you’re welcome!
Er… this episode is all about creativity in ed tech! I will resist the temptation to suggest this may be a paradoxical thing… but not too strongly! Please click wherever you feel like clicking!
https://youtu.be/6aBPAh7OcA0Look, ma! No hands on this here #ednontech!Are we not all indebted to our mothers in one way or other?? #ednontech
Jesse Complete Discography by Jesse
All RIGHT! Speaking further to the stunt production! I’m composing the notes for both this episode and EPISODE 55… are you ready?… AT THE SAME TIME…
What you call “kamikaze work methods” we call “Sunday”!
It seems like during the recording I had a goodish amount to say. So, in terms of furthering that… I’ll jump into the musical things probably first…
A Tale of Two Platforms / 90’s Punk LegendsWe are, interestingly in this springtime wherein two of my all-time favourite musical artists have new releases out within a short period of one another… and so the previous two episodes references and musical selections by Leatherface… and this episode’s indebtedness to Hot Water Music… clear as mud? If not, hopefully it will be…
Complete Discography: JesseVows: Hot Water MusicJesse Complete Discography by Jessehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8vXmCizX0cThis came out in late April. It compiles the one album and numerous singles from the mid-90’s period when Leatherface was on hiatus and produced music with a couple of other bands…
The latest album from three decades-long running band Hot Water Music, from Gainesville, FL… otherwise known as the hometown of Tom Petty…
BandcampPatreonAs I recently discussed on the music podcast, I am so stoked for this platform. It’s been sitting there in plain sight forever. There are a few artists who have proprietary files for sale… that don’t appear on streaming services… and while I probably out to remove a bunch of the stuff I’ve accumulated there over the years… it’s a way better platform than I remember…
Hot Water is new to the Patreon game.
A couple friends of mine… maybe even more passionate about Hot Water than I am… have refrained from joining… as something of a “money grab”…
From my standpoint… as somebody who lacks the ability to go to another city to see them perform… I’m happy to spend 10$ Canadian per month for the extra interviews… and really the engagement with others who, as you might expect, have more in common than just an affinity for the band…
Plus, I’ve stopped paying for any other media subscriptions or services besides Apply Music… so it’s good return on the (media) dollar…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an4BLDsC06Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuMESBx0gJ4Meditations, Book 4 (Marcus Aurelius)And… further to the alternate methods described in the audio… I tried having the recording DICTATE the audio to Google Docs… but my computer has no external speaker… and so, on playback, isn’t strong enough for the “voice type” feature to engage properly…
ANYWHO
…The ruling power within us takes a flexible approach to circumstances, always adapting itself easily both to practicality and the given event… It is like a fire mastering whatever falls into it. A small flame would be extinguished, but a bright fire rapidly claims as its own all that is heaped on it, devours it all, and leaps up higher in consequence.
Meditations, Book IV
Thirty Things About Hot Water Music (Mostly Without Google)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4XXZZUPIGk* Hot Water Music formed in 1994 in Gainesville, Florida. * They have a brand new album out this week called Vows… coming out 30 years into their existence as a band… and they are in the midst of touring it internationally… throughout 2024… * In 30 years they’ve added one new member… and lost zero members… * They have TWO significantly dope split LPs: with Leatherface (1999) and Alkaline Trio (2002) * There are even more split collaborations if you include 7″ vinyl… i.e., the Bouncing Souls (2011), Terror (2022) * The Leatherface split is for sure the first record of theirs I heard. * Followed closely by Fuel for the Hate Game… and Forever and Counting… * Guitarist and singer Chuck Ragan has a whole boatload of solo records in a folk tradition that are all worth checking out. * Guitarist and singer Chris Wollard has a good five records at least if you count 7″ vinyl with his band the Ship Thieves that are all totally worth checking out. * Guitarist and singer Chris Cresswell has I don’t even know how many records out with his long-running Toronto band The Flatliners… all their albums are worth checking out… * Drummer George Rebello has been the long-time drummer for New Jersey punks The Bouncing Souls for… a long time… * George, Wollard, and bassist Jason Black all still live in Florida. * Chuck lives in Northern California and runs a fly-fishing operation. * Cresswell lives in Toronto. * Cresswell has been in the midst of touring his recent solo album The Stubbornness of the Young which is totally worth checking out. * Wollard has remained in Florida for all the band’s touring activities since at least 2019, when Cresswell stood in for him on the 25th anniversary tour. * Wollard and Cresswell both contribute equally to writing and recording and promotion of current recordings including Feel the Void (2022) and Vows (2024). * At one point in the early 00’s, Chuck stepped away from Hot Water… and so Jason, George, and Wollard released and toured an album as The Draft… * Their new Patreon group (running since April) is totally worth checking out… for some of the reasons described above… * Hot Water Music is the name of a book of short stories by legendary American writer Charles Bukowski. * My first and only time seeing Hot Water live was in Vancouver in September, 2022 at the Vogue Theatre downtown. * Vancouver Island singer Northcote opened for Hot Water on that occasion… * Northcote joined Cresswell on a co-headlining tour of venues in Canada, the US, and Europe supporting their respective recent releases… * Wollard is an avid golfer… on the Patreon, he recently shared a 13-minute clip of a golf trip with his son… * Chad Darby plays bass for Wollard’s group Ship Thieves… and also for legendary California punks Samiam… * Wollard provided studio assistance and contributed vocals to two songs on Samiam’s amazing Stowaway LP from last year… * I honestly have no idea without the help of Google what Jason Black gets up to musically outside of Hot Water… and I am going to avoid cheating by trying to find out… BUT I’M SURE IT’S AWESOME… * Jason has a bass named Duchess. * Their new LP Vows has contributions from all over the place including: Turnstile! City and Colour! Thrice! And many more… * You should really do yourself a favour and check out this record… and/or the Patreon group…
FACTS…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBMF0yuKZigImagine… an army of readers!! #ednontechDoug’s NotesCreativity in Ed TechSumming up the author puts forth a word of caution before the teachers, who will have to face an ever increasing and heterogeneous group of learners. The tools and techniques of educational technology would definitely enable them to face the challenges easily.
… the author has presented the various types and uses of chalkboard in a fairly comprehensive way and some hints has been provided for using the chalkboard in the most effective way.
Sampath, K. (1981). Introduction to educational technology. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
The field of creativity is not paid enough attention in educational technology.
Creativity as being a product includes a very fast enlightenment in mind bearing ideas related to a [sic] problem solving, a topic for an article, a plan for research, a work in literature or fine arts, a new theory, unknown technique or method.
- Discovery
- Innovation
- Invention
Rıza, E. T. (2001). Creativity: A new era in educational technology. Sakarya Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, (3).
Myth 1: The technology tools we have today should drive how we conceptualize teaching and learning in the 21st century.
Myth 2: Creativity can be taught in a content neutral manner.
The kinds of understanding that emerge from this truly take advantage of 21st century technologies for deep (in)disciplined learning. This is learning that breaks disciplinary boundaries to cross-pollinate ideas, and thus helps students become creative divergent thinkers!
Mishra, P., & Deep-Play Research Group. (2012). Rethinking technology & creativity in the 21st century: Crayons are the future. TechTrends, 56(5), 13.
… research discourses around educational technology and creativity have rarely intersected. Nor has the instantiation of these ideas in actual classroom contexts been comprehensively researched.
Interest in creativity has been fueled by the afordances [sic] provided by digital technologies, including, but not limited to, massive connectivity and the creation of virtual environments with new possibilities for learning.
Henriksen, D., Creely, E., Henderson, M., & Mishra, P. (2021). Creativity and technology in teaching and learning: a literature review of the uneasy space of implementation. Educational Technology Research and Development, 1-18.
Word of the PodcastCreativity
Question of the PodcastHow can educational technology be used to support creativity in learning environments?
Phrase of the Podcast506consultingnb@admin
Heavens knows we appreciate you stopping by! We hope you’ll visit again!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQpfOx3pkoAA reprieve brings you to your knees
Then you realize
The peace still out of reach
Crawling right between your eyes #ednontech
Matt’s NotesGreetings to any and every one visiting the EnT today!
In this episode we are speaking to clear communication in education… so let’s get to it, sharpish-like!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klIhxVc6xa8Faking it until we’re making it? Just another day of #ednontech!Steve Albini could’ve done a much better job with this audio! #ednontech
Actual behind-the-scenes footage here at the #ednontech show!
Rest in Power, Steve Albini (1962 – 2024)As I’ve reflected in the notes over at the music podcast, it’s seldom an artist transforms an entire format. That’s what Steve did to popular music. Or… music, generally.
I’m putting this out here now, weeks after this episode was recorded and after most of these notes were placed in WordPress…
Lots going on “behind the scenes”, you might say… and for sure one thing I’ve learned over the years… is to pace yourself… and that means knowing when to scale back artistic and/or creative outlets… it’s a matter of leaving water at the bottom of the well so it can refill overnight… to paraphrase Ernest Hemingway…
ANYWAY
One thing Steve was was productive. So I’m determined to get three episodes of the EnT out the door today. There’s probably more Steve commentary on the way in those notes as well. Sorry / You’re welcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6P0SitRwy8The Antikythera Mechanism (Classical Wisdom)The ancient world is, in many ways, a thing to be discovered as vast and deep as any ocean.
The fact this computing machine dating back to second century BC could be found on a seabed… and reconstructed to something functional… or capable of presenting its function in a meaningful way… is astonishing to me…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqlJ50zDgeAAnother aspect of why this is so interesting to me is… what other similar innovations or inventions have yet to be recovered… or will never be…
What we think of as human cognition, and the ability to reason abstractly and to impact the physical world with products of that abstraction applied through manipulation of that world… what we think of as the human condition… has really only been around for the equivalent of an eye-blink when compared to the total history of life on planet Earth… how small and frail any single life is underpins why these artifacts… and the narratives and lives that led to their recovery… and why this is of such interest!
“I just think it’s [sic] neat” Marge Simpson.
Jesse Complete Discography by Jesse
Bandcamp / Jesse DiscographyOver at the music podcast, Dan and I have been known to extoll upon the (post-)modern phenomena associated with The Algorithm. In this case, I’ve stepped away from it… at least by a half-pace or two!
Bandcamp is actually an awesome app, is what I’m trying to get at! That it relies, largely, on community members buying and selling proprietary music files feels in a weird way both anachronistic and… community like… the fact that you can buy physical music and/or merch feels a lot closer to being able to support the artist in the streaming era… wherein algorithmic production and consumption of music has essentially hollowed out the ability of most musical artists to make recording music by itself any kind of viable economic enterprise…
I could go on! And on the music podcast we do! I will be spending more time with the Bandcamp app, because post-purchase it functions as an excellent streaming platform for the things you’ve purchased… the downloadable music files are, at least for me, almost never touched…
This is all related to downsizing… and to Jesse… a Frankie Stubbs band while Leatherface was on several years’ hiatus in the mid-90’s… it’s absolutely brilliant emotional highly intelligent thoughtful punk that has long been out of print until this spring… and while I wait for the gorgeous colored two-LP limited run Discography vinyl to arrive from the Sunderland, UK via the Bandcamp app… I’ve been streaming it incessantly… for more than a week…
What the YouTube and/or Apple Music apps’ algorithms make of this knowledge is anyone’s guess!
Doug’s NotesClear communication in educationResults took the form of five primary communication themes:
- expectations of and problems with technology;
- problems associated with distance;
- perceptions of nontraditional students;
- encouraging the use of technology; and
- encouraging student interaction.
If interaction is to take place, the teacher must encourage it.
McHenry, L., & Bozik, M. (1995). Communicating at a distance: A study of interaction in a distance education classroom. Communication Education, 44(4), 362-371.
Our data indicates that unguided communication of a Community of Practice can lead to some undesirable effects on the course.
All four theoretical concepts: ZPD, Communities of Practice, Conversational Framework and the E-moderation model, have utilised communication as a facilitator for learning.
Heinze, A., & Procter, C. (2006). Online communication and information technology education. Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 5(1), 235-249.
Poor communication is a frequent and time-consuming problem in contemporary organizations.
Training (Rodenbough & Fletcher, 2006) and coaching (‘‘Using coaching to improve communication,’’ 2006) help to improve communication in organizations.
Morreale, S. P., & Pearson, J. C. (2008). Why communication education is important: The centrality of the discipline in the 21st century. Communication Education, 57(2), 224-240.
Clarity is conceived as a process whereby the instructor and students communicate and negotiate meaning to make information more understandable … teacher clarity behaviors refer to the instructor’s use of (non)verbal messages and cues such as underscoring main ideas, rewording main ideas, providing examples, illustrations, and visuals, and repeating main points to ease students’ comprehension, understanding, and final attainment
Xie, F., & Derakhshan, A. (2021). A conceptual review of positive teacher interpersonal communication behaviors in the instructional context. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 708490.
https://youtu.be/fCVKCUB5w50?si=97RC3VcJFNkJOk16Word of the PodcastClarity
Question of the PodcastWhy has clarity of communication not been more of a priority in teaching and learning?
Phrase of the PodcastBe mercenary about it
https://youtu.be/TpvKIlaP_ZA?si=V5BggS8xlbig4DuoI’ll send an S.O.S to the world
I’ll send an S.O.S to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle, yeah #ednontechThanks for being here! We’re grateful you came all this way!
Matt’s NotesWelcome, one and all to the latest EnT!
This is more a spiritual sequel than a direct sequel per se… we are all about UNDERSTATED success in education and/or ed tech… as opposed to celebrating success in education, as we did back in Episode 50: Celebrated Summer! Thematically, I am delighted to pair one notion of success vis-à-vis one Minneapolis punk juggernaut in Hüsker Dü (Episode 50) against another vis-à-vis their hometown rivals The Replacements (Episode 53). Not that much about the ‘Mats or the Hüskers is particularly understated! I’ve been listening to both bands for more than 2/3 of my life. What a thing!
https://youtu.be/nsTFYGXQEBoNever mind the Maritime Internet… here’s the EnT!! #ednontechWhen you hear a drum roll, you know the Maritime Internet has failed! #ednontech
TRU EDUC Course(s)This will be my final post about this for now.
It’s been an honour to work with Dr. Pamela Gurney on these three lectures, and the responses to her students thus far. Much gratitude and respect to Dr. Doug Reid, and Dr. Hassan Arif for being guests on these episodes / lectures… and for responding to students from EDUC 5040!
Given the circumstances of my departure from TRU, and subsequent actions by the university… i.e., blocking my IP address from nearly all publicly-facing websites…
Let’s just say, it means alot to me personally… and professionally… that Pam would reach out to me and then develop these lectures with her input… it’s hard to express in words how meaningful that is from someone in her position, and in our shared history as colleagues!
Her students’ questions were all brilliant and thought-provoking! I am pleased beyond belief that this podcast has somehow become a vehicle through which legitimate academic and professional discourse can happen in public! In that regard, the EnT has surpassed significantly my extremely modest and irreverent first ideas for the enterprise!
How to be a Friend (Cicero) / The Killer (Film / Graphic Novel)These are two books I’m hoping to finish this weekend and/or early next week!
One consequence of taking on EnT Conversations & Lectures… awesome, though they are… is that between those and the music podcast… there’s limited bandwidth for just about anything else outside of work and keeping up with my kids…
I’m looking forward to finishing these books! I may even watch The Killer on Nextflix for the third time… which is high praise from me… I have yet to watch a movie in 2024… my attention span for the format is limited to almost nil… but every year there are a couple of films that really jump out… and Fincher is among the best directors of his generation…
And… Cicero… is really something I’ve been thinking about lately, for lots of reasons… I’m lucky to have friends from my childhood, teen years, early adulthood… and even early/mid-career… and recently… who I would call “good friends” or whatnot… the older I get, the more I appreciate these people, it seems…
I hope you know who you are!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S7FR_HCg9gDoug’s NotesA focus on understated successes, techniques, and technologyWhat is needed then is a conceptual shift in emphasis from the tangible barriers of the implementation process to more theoretical issues related to the identity of educational technology, its theoretical assumptions, and its paradigmatic conflict with education.
Albirini, A. (2007). The crisis of educational technology, and the prospect of reinventing education. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 10(1), 227-236.
Successful implementation of e-learning is dependent on the extent to which the needs and concerns of the stakeholder groups involved are addressed.
Clearly, a rapid and fundamental shift in higher education practice has taken place, driven by technology adoption. Yet at the same time, nothing much has changed, and many edtech developments have failed to have significant impact.
Weller, M. (2018). Twenty years of EdTech. Educause Review Online, 53(4), 34-48.
EdTech has started to play a role in the education of millions of children in developing countries
Rodriguez-Segura, D. (2022). EdTech in developing countries: A review of the evidence. The World Bank Research Observer, 37(2), 171-203.
Concepts
- Collaboration
- Pandemic pivot
- Online Professional Development
- Blended / Hybrid Learning
- Distance Learning
- Student focused learning
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constructionism Products / practices / techniques
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Printing Press
- Chalk / slate
- Paper
- Radio
- TV
- Internet
- Wikis /Blogs
- OERs
- Learning Management Systems
- MOOCs
- Voice assistant devices
- Virtual reality
- Screen readers
- Handheld devices
- Word processing, spreadsheet, presentation software Word of the PodcastUnderstated
Phrase of the PodcastMaritime internet is putting us through the gears
Question of the PodcastHow can we stay optimistic with technology change in education and not get cynical?
https://youtu.be/y5e6A_EozH0?si=dEBmfpCsNmgSWIcHHas it been that much time already? Well, let’s make the next time extra-soon!
Welcome, Thompson Rivers University Education students, and to anyone else who might be joining us! Thanks very much to Dr. Pamela Gurney with TRU Faculty of Education and Social Work for the invitation to speak to her class vis-à-vis this asynchronous lecture! In this case, I was given broadly to speak to the course topic… with some focus on Information Technology (IT) and open learning curriculum! I hope that I’ve done this justice in this discussion!
https://youtu.be/rFIPR2891x4You can watch this “supercut”… or select from the shorter sections below! #ednontechThe audio helps provide the full podcast-like experience! #ednontech
https://youtu.be/Ru_Kdilt8HkPart I: Learning Management Systems (LMS)https://youtu.be/l-jsMEDq6wwPart II: Content Management Systems (CMS)https://youtu.be/dixqzpsBKe8Part III: Cloud-based productivity suitesYou can listen to or watch the supercut above! The supercut is made up of the three shorter videos here, along with a general introduction and a “mid-point reflection”. Or… you watch just the three or from among the three shorter videos! We do our best on this podcast to provide multiple means of accessing content, as we feel this promotes learner agency! Among other things!
Comments and ResourcesI hope you take from the videos and other elements of this presentation, that I think of a career… and curriculum, generally… very much as a journey!
I’ve had the pleasure of working in educational settings and contexts in three countries and three Canadian provinces over 18 years! I’ve worked with young kids all the way through to people who are much older than me, through language schools, colleges, universities, and now in the private sector! I’m grateful for the various individuals and groups I’ve encountered in each… and each has been drastically different from the one which preceded it…
That leads me to the notion expressed here… and elsewhere on the podcast and in these lectures… that contemporary educators can do themselves an immense favor, particularly early in their careers, by gaining proficiency with at least one application from each of the “baskets” I’ve spoken to in the videos!
In the interests of respecting your time, I’ll limit this commentary for now! But I will share some resources which could hopefully add value to your emerging practice as educators! I would be pleased to respond to any comments or questions… be aware that after you post a comment it is only published after moderation, after I am notified and approve it… so it could take a few hours!
H5P.orgI made reference to H5P in the recordings. H5P exists as a plug-in for most learning management systems, including Moodle… and it is also available as a plug-in for WordPress. It is highly portable; learning activities created using H5P can be exported as files and placed a wide variety of settings and contexts. There are new types of activities being added regularly… there are public repositories of H5P learning activities available for downloading and adapting to suite one’s own purpose; i.e., the eCampusOntario H5P studio. Below is a sample H5P interaction: an interactive slide presentation; in this case embedded within a WordPress context vis-à-vis the H5P plug-in.
BCcampus Indigenization GuidesI think it’s extremely important to be aware of resources to support Indigenization. The BCcampus resources are comprehensive, and appear to have been created with significant input from Indigenous and First Nations individuals and/or groups. These resources can be adapted across contexts as needed, as per the terms of the Creative Commons 4.0 licensing.
E-text repositories: BCcampus & eCampusOntarioE-texts exist in increasing numbers due to significant efforts by faculty and educators in BC, Ontario, and elsewhere who are contributing to e-text repositories… such as those provided by BCcampus & eCampusOntario . These texts are often under the same Creative Commons 4.0 licensing mentioned above which means that assuming proper attribution is paid to the original, the texts can be modified… and adapted… for any other setting or purpose. As such, these repositories are of value for teachers and students at any level.
Moodle/ WordPress/ MSO365I’d like to be clear… any of these applications… or bundles of applications, as the case may be, can be effective for teaching and learning. LMS’s like Moodle are private and have rich administrative feature-sets, as well as automated grading for some activities. WordPress… or other CMS’s… provide a high level of control to users to create rich learning environments on the open web… as well, they are conducive to providing students enhanced digital literacy skills… in an ostensibly public setting! Cloud-based bundles of productivity apps such as are available in Microsoft Office 365… and Google… can help you collaborate and share work with colleagues… and potentially with students.
There are challenges associated with each type of application, and every teaching context is different. As such, it would benefit anyone to know how to use these tools at a basic or better level… even if they aren’t being used right now! There are online tutorials available… trial accounts… which you can access easily… as you develop your preferences for certain kinds of apps, you will have a set of practices and skills and literacies which will help you later in your career!
Teaching in a Digital Age (Tony Bates)This is a highly practical book by one of Canada’s most accomplished and well-regarded educators within the digital learning space. There are many suggestions which could be helpful for anyone in an educational role… it is easy to read, and is now up to the third edition… and it is freely available from BCcampus!
Principles of Blended Learning (Vaughan et al.)This book came out last year, so it is extremely recent and practical! It provides an overview of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework for teaching and learning in electronically-mediated contexts. The CoI framework has been used by educators across levels and disciplines for more than twenty years; having knowledge of CoI… as well as other models and learning theories… can be helpful in and of itself. CoI is discussed here in terms of blended learning… which anyone working in an educational role today should find helpful!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbNlMtqrYS0When I come home (When I come home), oh, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if I grow old, well, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s growin’ old with you #ednontechWe are deeply grateful to Dr. Gurney and the students of EDUC 5030 for joining us! And anyone else, for that matter!
Matt’s NotesWelcome, and thanks for joining us for the latest EnT! On this outing we’re speaking to edtech project design! Of which this podcast thingy may or may not be included! Please give it a view or a listen… or both!
https://youtu.be/jCrXSjfZc1IIt was the most video of times… and the most audio of times! #ednontechWe project that good times are to be had both video-wise and audio-wise! #ednontech
Thompson Rivers University EDUC class(es)I know that I spoke to this in the notes for the last episode!
But I feel like:
- A: My bandwidth for topics outside the podcast, lectures, conversations, and work… is limited!
- B: It is a significant honor to be invited to speak to EDUC students: for many reasons!
So… in terms of podcasting… project management… and so forth:
This commentary is, effectively, the most effective manner I can think of right now… to move the project of this podcast forward both generally and through this specific episode!
The video lecture for EDUC 5000: Learning about Learning currently has 89 views on YouTube… and the lecture for EDUC 5040: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion has 98 YT views… which means these lectures attract roughly ten times the viewership of a regular episode!
https://youtu.be/TrDnSxQyGGEhttps://youtu.be/fGgU1GgsY4MIn terms of workflow: once this post is finished, I’ll be recording a solo lecture for EDUC 5030: Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning! While I’ve yet to determine exactly what we will be speaking to, I’m thinking of travel… journeying… as a metaphor… inasmuch as anyone studying in a post-secondary Education program… whether at the bachelors, masters, or doctoral levels… should be prepared to change positions and/or roles over the course of a career… that’s been the case for the vast majority of educators I’ve encountered over the years… whether shifting geographically… or between organizations… or between roles in the same organization… change… travel… journeying… is one of the only constants within the career…
I’m also looking at writing a straight-up blog post later this week… for the express purpose of removing open Chrome tabs and emails-to-self… a worthy project in and of itself, I think!
Doug’s NotesEdtech project design4 categories of eLearning (ELMN)
- E – Electronic
- L – Learning
- M – Management
- N – Needs
Identification and definition of the problem/need.
- Is there a real problem/need that is worth addressing?
- If a “problem,” what are the symptoms, causes, and effects?
- If a “need,” who and where are the “needy”?
- What are the probable costs and benefits of a “solution”?
- Assignment of a priority and a budget-range to the project.
Romiszowski, A. J. (2004). How’s the e-learning baby? Factors leading to success or failure of an educational technology innovation. Educational technology, 44(1), 5-27.
When they introduce new technology for reaching new goals, IT early adopters often challenge the course of their community’s normal activity: thus, opportunities and tensions arise.
- Use of collaborative technologies.
- Onsite/online professional development.
- Top and bottom-up management.
Laferrière, T., Hamel, C., & Searson, M. (2013). Barriers to successful implementation of technology integration in educational settings: A case study. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 29(5), 463-473.
The following tables summarize the results of discussions according to current status and needs of ICT and online learning environment in the respective university:
Köhler, T., & Jalilov, O. (2020). Report on EduTech Implementation. Covering the Situation at University of Colombo. Technische Universität Dresden. Abgerufen am, 1(02), 2020.
For the past several decades, K-12 schooling has been an area of interest for investors who view it as a virtually untapped market to be exploited.
The increased marketization of educational practices materialized through the transfer of control over curricula, teaching, and infrastructure to for-profit EdTech firms is one that has in the past been accompanied by a standardized, aspatial view of schooling where the student’s lived experiences and connections to communities are viewed as a barrier … revealed highlight that such systems are based on a narrow view of the role of schooling.
Cohen, D. (2024). Any time, any place, any way, any pace: Markets, EdTech, and the spaces of schooling. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 56(1), 270-287.
Word of the PodcastImplement
Phrase of the PodcastHosed with work, or rethink how you do
Question of the PodcastHow can education focus on learners and educators rather than on corporate priorities?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gH5yFAQmToI said alright, cause you never know,
You never find what you want if you stay too close.
I headed out in the morning rain,
Past all the stands on the side of the old highway.
But they don’t need to know #ednontechWe are beyond grateful you’ve joined us today! We’ll be bringing more EnT soon-like!!
Matt’s NotesHi everyone, and welcome to the second in our latest twopeat of episodes! Whereas in our previous episode, we were speaking to success in education… we now look towards debacles, failures, and questions that did not work! We are grateful you are here! Please click below as per your interests!
https://youtu.be/-twFPPNdL08Fell, destroyed… and yet still handsome af?? #ednontechIs it easier to fail in audio than video?? These and other important questions explored herein!! #ednontech
Thompson Rivers University EDUC class(es)It’s an interesting thing.
I was going to try and do my normal thing here, where I look at various of the resources I’ve seen lately and emailed to myself… as an excuse, more often than not, to dive into some stuff that’s maybe a bit outside my normal or current professional lane… it always does a body good to explore the wider perspectives both within and without a discipline…
But really, all my attention lately outside of work has been devoted to podcast… and, somehow, educating via the podcast… which I would have been hard-pressed to predict back in September of ’22 when Doug and I first launched this thing…
And, furthermore, I’ve been trying to clear the backlog of music podcast episodes… a week ago we had 3 that needed to go out… as of today, we just have one… I’ve struggled with it… despite knowing it’s just a matter of opening up a few media files and writing a few paragraphs… Comedy albums… go figure… being challenging for me…
And so… if you look to the sidebar of this post… and you’ll see what I’m talking about… insofar as recent posts and recent comments go…
I will repeat what I’ve said elsewhere: I’m humbled and thrilled by the opportunity to engage with students in EDUC 5040, as well as with students in an upcoming asynchronous lecture of EDUC 5030: Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning. I am extremely grateful to Dr. Pamela Gurney of TRU Education for reaching out to me for this series of lectures… which also includes a discussion with Dr. Reid for EDUC 5000… to Pam’s students for coming up with such excellent, thought-provoking questions… and to Dr. Hassan Arif for being such an excellent co-host for the lecture, and for his interest in engaging with students’ questions… which will be the basis for a post on this site early next week…
So… aware as I am that this is/was ostensibly an episode speaking to… debacles and failure… I’m finding it hard to find any as I survey what’s going on in my professional and “podcasting” lives… except perhaps in terms of managing my time with the podcasts… I’ve always had an interest in taking new things on… sometimes at the expense of sleep, mental bandwidth… and personal and professional relationships…
And… I’ve failed to add any references or citations to this podcast notes or PowerPoint slides!
So there… some abject failure! Apart from whatever I spoke to during the recordings!
I usually almost always succeed when I go searching for failure! Sometimes it’s really just a matter of wanting it enough!
Doug’s NotesLooking back on debacles, failures, and questions that did not workWe learn more from failure than we do from successWhen a new technology is introduced, earlier studies focus on demonstrations of efficacy, followed by studies comparing the new technology against the old. However, such studies do little to advance the new technology.
Cook, D. A. (2009). The failure of e-learning research to inform educational practice, and what we can do about it. Medical teacher, 31(2), 158-162.
Are universities that become content producers and adopt new learning technologies guaranteed a healthy future?
Lucas Jr, H. C. (2017). Technology and the failure of the university. Communications of the ACM, 61(1), 38-41.
The affirmation of failure as a pedagogical principle is an integral part of not only fostering creativity in students but also preparing them for the sorts of adaptations and flexibility they need in an environment of technological change.
Creely, E., Henderson, M., & Henriksen, D. (2019, March). Failing to succeed: The value of failure in creativity. In Society for information technology & teacher education international conference (pp. 1403-1411). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
We are less interested in the latest digital technology trends than the educational transformations aimed at addressing current educational challenges.
Sancho-Gil, J. M., Rivera-Vargas, P., & Miño-Puigcercós, R. (2020). Moving beyond the predictable failure of Ed-Tech initiatives. Learning, Media and Technology, 45(1), 61-75.
Recent Examples of EdTech FailureConcepts The promise of “free” * Flipped classroom * Online textbooks / etextbooks * “End of librarians / libraries” * Cheating detection * One laptop per child * Compulsory fitness trackers * Automated grading * Capitalism infused education * Learn to code * Mobile learning Products** Social media * Online grading portals * 3D printing * Clickers * Badges * Interactive Whiteboards * MOOCs * Voice assistant devices * Virtual reality * Educational TV * iPad initiatives Word of the PodcastDebacles
Phrase of the PodcastIntroducing… digital crud… and… advancing the pedagogy
Question of the PodcastRather than just looking at the technology and financial failures, where is the human cost measured in all these failures?
https://youtu.be/z-suREZVjX0?si=dHf8dlRPL_XLR_SKHere’s a list of side effects
Practice tested
Covering every maliced angle
For example: You will sleep forever
You will never sleep again
Yawn to yawn
The face is born to mask the shade of shit you’re in #ednontechWe are grateful beyond words you’ve joined us! Let’s do this again, ASAP!
Welcome to the latest in our series of Ed non-Tech Conversations… wherein we invite educators from across various roles, disciplines, and backgrounds to speak to their teaching practices… learning design… research… or anything else that comes to mind!
Kathleen MacPhee, MSW is a counsellor, social worker, and educator in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She owns and operates Third House Counselling and Support, and she is an Instructor with the Social Service Community Worker Program at New Brunswick Community College (NBCC), Fredericton campus.
Please check out the video and/or audio below to hear our chat!
Matt’s Noteshttps://youtu.be/ZaoDl_OGtOEFriends for 20+ years… now with more #ednontech!Comments and Resources via KathleenBy way of an introduction to Mad Studies -which I didn’t really talk about but is nonetheless relevant to/informs my approach to teaching, counselling, and social work generally:
Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies
Edited by Bren LeFrancois (my mentor at MUN), Robert Menzies, and Geoffrey Reaume
Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: An Ethical and Epistemological Accounting by Bonnie Burstow
For good measure I’ll include my only published article to date, that I co-authored with my friend and colleague Lynsey Wilson Norrad:
Learning and Unlearning: Two Social Workers’ Autoethnographic Exploration into Mad Studies Journal of Progressive Human Services
…which leads me to Greg Procknow’s recent thematic literature review that has implications for all kinds of exciting inquiry into the relationship between Mad Studies and Higher Ed: A Literature Review of Mad Studies as Critical Pedagogy: What is Mad Studies, and How does it Implicate the Education of Adults? New Horizons in Adult Education and Resource Development
Most people have no idea what Mad Studies is or what it means to practice from a Mad Studies informed lens. For me, at its simplest, this really just means two things:
- I listen to what people have to say about their experiences with the mental health system. The “mental health crisis” that gets bandied about is, to me, not so much a misnomer as it is ill-defined: people’s experiences are being dismissed in favour of labelling and medicating; people are still being told that they have a chemical imbalance despite an overwhelming lack of evidence (see Moncrieff et al., a damning and definitive umbrella review that has the powers that be back peddling, stating that the chemical imbalance theory was only ever meant to be a metaphor and that patients were never told they have a chemical imbalance). People are struggling and need help. Unfortunately, despite the widely held belief – and hope – that modern psychiatry is there for us in our time of need, what many find is a lack of informed consent regarding treatment options, coercion, and forced treatment. This has real world consequences ranging from nasty effects of psych drugs (hello brain zaps, sexual dysfunction, and agitating movement disorders) to loss of agency and decision making. In the worst cases, these consequences intersect with the criminal justice and child protection systems. Along with the voiceless recipients of those who have been harmed in the name of helping, the World Health Organization is calling for an end to coercion and forced treatment in mental health care, and a move toward community-based care models.
- I question the legitimacy and usefulness of the mental health system as it exists today. Psychiatry has a stranglehold on our understanding of difference and distress (informed by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or the DSM). This leaves very little room for explanation of people’s struggles outside of the medical model, meaning that trauma and the social determinants of health take a backseat to the idea ‘broken brains’. The World Health Organization agrees with me here, too.
All of this to explain how my affinity for Mad Studies translates into my work in the classroom. I teach a mental health foundations course to my first year students and begin by orienting them to what is a new way of thinking about mental health. Before I even start talking, I have them search up (via google or our in house academic holdings) “chemical imbalance” and another word – proof, fact, evidence, or something of the like, and report their findings back to me. Confusion comes, and the conversation starts. We talk about the history of psychology and psychiatry and examine the ways in which we might not be as advanced as we think when it comes to the way we understand and “treat” human suffering. We talk about epistemic injustice and sanism. Fortunately, the competencies that my students are required to leave this course with are very much in line with a Mad Studies approach.
Of course, I have content that needs to be delivered; this is covered in a textbook that ignores the impact of trauma (which does change our brains!) and is steeped in the biomedical model, and we look at that critically too. This year my students were taken with the Hearing Voices approach to working with people diagnosed with schizophrenia or who experience psychosis. They wonder why they’ve never heard of such a common sense and humane approach.
These ideas intersect with the content in my other courses: we favour participatory action research in research methods and stay close to the “nothing about us without us” credo in community development. My students will be working with individuals facing some of the most difficult times of their lives, and it’s my responsibility to ensure that they are equipped to understand these difficulties in a way that does not create harm additional stress and barriers to the people they’re charged with assisting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQoVOAe2o9sMany thanks to Kathleen for joining us! And many thanks to you for checking out the EnT!
Matt’s NotesWelcome to the latest in our series of Ed non-Tech Conversations! We would like to especially welcome students from EDUC 5040: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion from the Thompson Rivers University School of Education, taught by Dr. Pamela Gurney!
For this discussion, we’ve invited Dr. Hassan Arif, a lawyer, writer, educator, and civil servant based in Victoria, BC to speak to EDI within his teaching practice at the post-secondary level both at University of New Brunswick, and the University of Victoria. We are grateful Hassan was able to join us, and we are grateful to you for watching and/or listening!
https://youtu.be/fGgU1GgsY4M?si=FPaVyCwBRE1mocF1Dr. Hassan Arif (left) and Dr. Matt Stranach (right)
Please give us a listen! And if you like what you hear, tell us so… or share with others!
Comments and Resources via Dr. ArifThe first is an excerpt from Ibn Khaldun, who I talked about in my interview. I quickly googled and found this biography of him: Ibn Khaldūn | 14th Century Muslim Historian & Philosopher | Britannica Basically an example of a significant thinker outside western Europe
The second article is by John Borrows, a law professor at the University of Victoria who has played a major role in the Indigenous Law Program (where one can do a degree in Indigenous and Common Law). It shows the importance of storytelling in many indigenous societies. Here’s a bio of John Borrows: https://www.uvic.ca/law/facultystaff/facultydirectory/borrows.php
The third article is about how immigration and multiculturalism essentially made the Toronto we know, by a Distinguished Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington DC, Blair Ruble. Here’s a bio of Ruble: Blair A. Ruble | Wilson Center
The first two articles were part of my Sociology of Law class and the third part of Urban and Regional Economic Development which I taught at the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria.
And of course I sent that YouTube video about Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age.
https://youtu.be/LnVl9AsoraE?si=LalCBD_JmvLL-DUeThanks to Dr. Arif for being here today! And thanks to Dr. Gurney and the students of EDUC 5040 for joining us as well!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiosqtFLBBA
Matt’s NotesWelcome to the first in another two-peat of sorts; linked as they are thematically, we’re running headlong into an exploration of success and failures in education… notionally, conceptually, and anecdotally. We’re glad you’re along for the ride! Please click below to get the thing entire, versus the gist of it!
https://youtu.be/iLSXOZ9HU2cIf you are reading this, you could be celebrating instead! #ednontech Here’s hoping our overall enthusiasm is conveyed vis-à-vis the audio also!
I will own that much of the delays in production… the irregularity… have been in part to my commitments with this show, and with the other… that punk show… we have a backlog of excellent content for both shows, and I’ll be danged sure we’re getting it out the door between now and the next few days!
Spring is springing… it’s a good time to be in Atlantic Canada! Or wherever you happen to be checking this from! I will maintain that this has been a challenging topic for me… from a notes standpoint! Late on Saturday night and/or Sunday morning it occurred to me… keep it simple… and so, a few thoughts on the late American Genius Cormac McCarthy…
The Passenger & Stella MarisI’ve been thoroughly and utterly flattened by these two books… one about a brother… one about a sister… I read the one about the sister first… it’s shorter… and deceptively simple as a dialogue between Alicia and her middle-aged male psychologist at a metal health facility in Wisconsin in the mid-70’s.
The book about the brother took me much longer… it is one of Cormac’s great Southern novels… set in a late 70’s and early 80’s world… still recognizable… yet pinwheeling backwards into the chasm of forgottenness… it contains passages which literally had me putting the book down to bust a gut laughing… some of his finest secondary characters spring to life like few confabulations I’ve encountered in narratives minor, major, and middling…
Blood MeridianI can’t put it any better than Brendan Kelly, the Lawrence Arms, or especially Ben Nichols (Lucero). But God knows I tried…
https://youtu.be/cgemchflN0M?si=zxkjVLCNIltKnxbshttps://youtu.be/d_TkXGBb34Y?si=e86VCqp3-VfcP-4-https://youtu.be/d64oGPreIEk?si=w95kmLbnfA-3Y2TRUntitled-document
The Roadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO8EqMsxOiUI read this before I became a Dad, and I can’t remember if I’ve picked it up in its entirety since. Its spare, and unsparing… the reality of Cormac’s destroyed world is tangible in texture and plausibility… there is no end to humankind’s eventual and inevitable total debasement, and yet this is an extraordinarily optimistic novel.
And let’s be sure to remember that John Hillcoat’s film featuring Viggo Mortensen is a profound emotional journey which does justice entirely to the novel… Hillcoat’s involvement adds to how and why the forthcoming Blood Meridian film promises to be a cinematic event the likes of which I’ve been waiting for for as long as its been since I read that novel…
The film features a soundtrack by no less than Nick Cave and Warren Ellis… prophets of some kind of sad bastard doom if we’re going to go there…
https://youtu.be/ZT6uT5yb1qo?si=gv-3O3XmS4KTp38LNo Country for Old Menhttps://youtu.be/A0oNrgumrlE?si=-wwGxiNJlLoQR3JCAnother instance of a book and movie enhancing one another.
I’ve read the book at least twice and have lost track of how many times I’ve watched the film.
It’s masterful in everything that it aspires to. The novel was originally meant to be a screenplay, and it shows in the prose. Utterly spare and probably the most conventionally pulp-like of all Cormac’s works I’ve encountered thus far… this is basically the highest compliment I can pay to a work of narrative, given my background & interests over the years…
https://youtu.be/eXe_ZqWKMqk?si=9qIYjHANcItbO2IVChild of Godhttps://youtu.be/gnXbeK6LopI?si=nOajGMBMYJq6seO_I feel like there should be a preamble here:
It’s a novel about a ghoul. Straight up. A necrophile in the hills of Appalachia in the 1960’s or thereabouts… based as I recall reading on an actual person and circumstances, loosely…
What’s concerning about it is how readable it is… how enjoyable the prose is, and how… without moralizing an iota… it makes a clear-eyed case against violence… by persons and institutions of the state…
It’s a short, intense read… my closest, easiest comparison is to Of Mice and Men… the bucolic, sinister, country vibe… the spare prose… the emotional punch… but, you know, with a necrophile ghoul as the main character…
https://youtu.be/Doflo73HYko?si=ghdfSvqJdy5RHOzlThe Counsellor & The Sunset LimitedIt’s an interesting thing. For all the successes noted above I am amazed to report that The Counsellor… directed by Ridley Scott… based on an original screenplay by Cormac… featuring Michael Fassbender and many other significant actors… including Javier Bardem AKA Anton Chigurh from No Country… the Counsellor fails in every single way as a film… that was my initial response… that it is among the worst Ridley Scott movies I’ve seen… but that was some ten years ago… and so perhaps it would be better now… I’d like to think it’s possible…
*I will also add that I think this may be a case where reading the thing as a screenplay could be a worthwhile endeavor… so… maybe I’ll just redact the entire preceding…
AND… for all that… Tommy Lee Jones directs and stars in a profoundly talkative, existentially-fraught NYC parlour room stage drama… I believe from an original stage script by Cormac… to pretty good returns… also starring as it does Samuel L. Jackson… there is much pleasure in seeing these veterans act their damned faces off in what amounts to a real-time drama of manners between two profoundly weird middle-aged men… I mean… I can dig it, as I’m a middle-aged dude! Who rules the world? ANYWAY… it’s worth checking out in and of itself for many reasons…
https://youtu.be/khvDOm4UvRo?si=AE98zPjk8ovWEd1ODoug’s NotesCelebrating success in education Celebration is about acknowledging special moments in people’s lives — both personal and professional — that are important to them.
An atmosphere of “all going well,” when facts warrant it, creates more energy in small children as well as in adults.
Myers, G. C. (1927). Education of Young Children Through Celebrating Their Successes (No. 26). Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education.
While it is a time honoured ritual, the presentation assembly has evolved into a generally broad, inclusive ceremony that reflects our comprehensive enrolment.
Mulheron, M. (2012). We must celebrate what is achieved in public education. Education, 93(12), 16.
… it is important that celebrations also strengthen the cognitive aims of the curriculum and provide a successful learning environment with a sense on joy and social participation.
Niemi, P. M., & Hotulainen, R. (2016). Enhancing students’ sense of belonging through school celebrations: A study in Finnish lower-secondary schools. International Journal of Research Studies in Education.
… demonstrate that campuses lack a robust Celebration, Appreciation, and Recognition (CAR).
There is a vast body of research that demonstrates that CAR improves motivation, morale, and performance within organizations.
Kezar, A., & Elrod, S. (2020). Taken for granted: Improving the culture of celebration, appreciation, and recognition in higher education. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 52(5), 29-36.
Word of the PodcastCelebrate
Phrase of the PodcastPretty damn high-quality and current!
Question of the PodcastHow shall we guarantee success to be celebrated?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxRwgEN4zUGetting drunk out on the beach
Or playing in a band
And getting out of school
Meant getting out of hand
Was this your celebrated summer?
Was that your celebrated summer? #ednontechThanks so much for joining us! It’s not summer yet… but it’s gonna be!
Matt’s NotesWelcome to the backend of a Minneapolis Punk-themed twopeat of the EnT! In this instance, Doug & I are talking about guidance in education… of the clear variety!
Please click below as per your interests!
https://youtu.be/lYWYlLbe-BQBlowing up your YouTube since 2022!! #ednontech67 minutes and 27 seconds… OF YOUR LIFE!! #ednontech
In keeping with the modus operandi of the previous notes, I’ll return to some readings from the chronological beginning of my inbox which is… squints late December… which feels like a pretty long time ago given my own highly specific personal circumstances which I will refrain from speaking to further!
Shall we call this a Minnesota two-fister?
Bloom’s Taxonomy Revisited (Oregon State University)In the recent and ongoing deluge of generative AI teaching aids, prescriptions, and reports it is increasingly difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.
What I like about this graphic is that it provides a series of general-purpose AI applications for each level of the Taxonomy… as well as recommendations for how course elements should be treated in light of AI usage!
As we’ve discussed on the show previously… a lot of effort and energy goes into distilling concepts and information into seemingly simple text and images. This resource achieves that goal… and then some!
Designing Postdigital Futures: Which Designs? Whose Futures? (Postdigital Science and Education)This article came across my LinkedIn feed via Mark Brown… Ireland’s first Chair in Digital Learning and Director of the National Observatory for Digital Education (NODE).
Macgilchrist and colleagues ask some provocative questions! I am highly compelled by this notion of “designing futures”… not only because this hints at Learning Design… which is near and dear to my heart… but that there is also some emancipatory suggestion in the article’s premise… which we are always seeking more of here on the EnT!
The aim of the paper is, according to the authors:
Exploring these old and new narratives, this commentary suggests that practitioners, researchers, and others impacted by sociotechnical systems need to design futures and think about how to design futures that matter to them; otherwise, they (we) hand over design decisions to dominant actors.
Macgilchrist et al, 2023, p. 14
To put it plainly: this paper is more than worth your time!
Here is the bibliographic reference for your perusal!
Macgilchrist, F., Allert, H., Cerratto Pargman, T. et al. Designing Postdigital Futures: Which Designs? Whose Futures?. Postdigit Sci Educ 6, 13–24 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00389-y
The Effects of COVID-19 on Higher-Education Teaching Practices (Power et al)Also via LinkedIn, this highly necessary necessary account of “how the transition to teaching online impacted technological and pedagogical practice among 35 teaching faculty at two Canadian universities” (Power et al, 2023).
I will put it out there that Dr. Power and I both worked at what was then the College of the North Atlantic’s Qatar project (CNA-Q) over the same period of time… late 00’s and early ’10’s… and I believe Rob was there somewhat before and also somewhat after I left Doha for Oshawa, Ontario… where I had the chance to meet and work with Dr. Kay during my period as Faculty Development Officer at what is now Ontario Tech University…
That being said, Drs Power, Kay, and their colleague(s) have provided one of the most readable accounts of COVID and post-COVID teaching practices that I’ve yet to encounter!
Here is the presumably correctly-formatted APA reference!
Power, R., Kay, R., & Craig, C. (2023). The Effects of COVID-19 on Higher-Education Teaching Practices. International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education/Revue internationale du e-learning et la formation à distance, 38(2).
7 Things You Should Know About Generative AI (Educause)I’m resolving for the remainder of 2024 to do my best to limit the amount of time and energy I spend on “how to… with AI”-type articles and resources… but given that this is from Educause, it is definitely worth exploring!
Prepared by a veritable panel of American educators, this would be an excellent starting point for the person who knows little-to-nothing about generative AI!
A couple of quotes jumped out at me! While not original within the growing list of AI prescriptions per se, these are some of the better formulations of these principles that I’ve encountered!
AI operates by making predictions about the next item in a series. When generative AI is writing a paragraph, for example, it constructs sentences by predicting each next word in succession. Over time, with lots of practice and lots of data, the system gets better at making predictions.
- How Does It Work?
The mismatch in the pace of technological development and the readiness of our social, ethical, and legal frameworks raises concerns about the responsible use of generative AI. It necessitates the development of robust guidelines, policies, and ethical considerations to ensure that this technology is harnessed for the greater good while minimizing potential risks.
- What Are the Downsides?
A Guided Tour of The Lawrence Arms (Alternative Press)This is a case where my academic / professional life overlaps with my life as “middle-aged punk”!
Two years ago I had only vaguely heard of TLA… since then I’ve purchased nearly all of their records on vinyl… and have listened to their digital discography for many, many weeks as per my Apple Music Replay from last year…
To the extent that punk is, largely, a DIY enterprise… this aligns, I like to think, with the constructivist and/or constructionist approaches to teaching and learning vis-à-vis technology that we advocate for on this podcast! Furthermore, I’ve been a punk music fan since age 14… whereas I didn’t get started as a post-secondary / adult learning educator person until I was 29 years old!
TLA are, among many many other things, one of the most literate (or is that ill literate? Or literarily ill?) bands of the genre. The lyrics are always squarely by and for the underdog… which, again, aligns with my philosophy as an educator… and with my life experience within and outside my career generally…
As such, I’ll do you the immense solid of sharing more of their music here… and a nifty overview from Alternative Press about what makes TLA tick! You’re welcome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeJlQcBRcRohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-To4sz9zr74Doug’s NotesClear guidance in educationWe speak of being informed, being told, being taught, being shown, or being given to understand.
Glaser, R. (1961). Learning and the Technology of Instruction. Audio Visual Communication Review, 42-56.
explicit instruction has been identified as a key component of current education initiatives such as response to intervention
Hughes, C. A., Morris, J. R., Therrien, W. J., & Benson, S. K. (2017). Explicit instruction: Historical and contemporary contexts. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 32(3), 140-148.
Applied Faculty Student Evaluation Scale for Music Majors (AFSESMM)
Instructional skill
- His/her explanations are clear and concise
- His/her method of teaching gives the student insight into teaching as well as performing
- He/she is flexible, and the instruction begins at the student’s own level of proficiency
- He/she is unable to diagnose technical problems
- He/she is able to correct technical difficulties
Communication
- Is clear and to the point
- He/she provides easy to follow instructions
- Takes things step by step
- His/her instructions are clear
- Provides specific lessons and techniques to practice each week
Abeles, H., Goffi, J., & Levasseur, S. (2021). The components of effective applied instruction. Visions of Research in Music Education, 16(3), 15.
“zelfsturing” has been the subject of much discussion. It is defined as the ability in self-management that students will need in the future and is a characteristic of learning processes in which students have a relatively large input and responsibility.
Voskamp, A., Kuiper, E., & Volman, M. (2022). Teaching practices for self-directed and self-regulated learning: Case studies in Dutch innovative secondary schools. Educational Studies, 48(6), 772-789.
Word of the PodcastClarity
Phrase of the PodcastRandomly pedantic scrutiny
Question of the PodcastHow can we assure educators are providing clear guidance to students?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0cAWxZzF4EImages run by, thousand miles an hour
But the time seems far away
Folding clothes in a folding closet
Folding money in a resume #ednontechWe are CLEARLY delighted you joined us today!! Until next time…
Matt’s NotesHey there, howdy! This is the first of a twopeat of episodes… linked insofar as Doug crafted these notes and those for episode 49 at the same time… or, at any rate, I received both Google docs at the same time!
I, for my part, have aimed for some GIF consistency— silent film legend Buster Keaton is the de facto Action Man for the EnT… AND… have tied the musical choices to 80’s Minneapolis punk, hardcore, and alternative legends The Replacements & Hüsker Dü…
To each their respective contributions, yes?? This episode is all about Reinforcement not replacement. Feeling as I do about the ‘Mats, I suspect I may problemetize that formulation a bit…
Please click below as per your inclinations!
https://youtu.be/OgZOy7jodbkFeeling Minnesota… looking Atlantic Canada!! #ednontechSixty-one minutes and fifty-one seconds… you won’t get back!! Will you dare? #ednontech
My objective… to the extent that I ever have an objective with this show… is currently to start reducing the backlog of emails-to-self sitting in my Gmail inbox… so… the next few episodes will include some of those… I honestly don’t remember the first time I saw some of these…
There is also a point of pride for me to include at least one or two references on the slides most episodes… legit former quasi-academic technologist and whatnot…
ANYWAY
How Education Works (Jon Dron)This is a case where my last work-related reading was the recent Principles of Blended Learning (Vaughan et al, 2023) from Athabasca University Press. As I’ve spoken of variously over the program so far, AU is the home of some of, to my mind, both necessary and practical works of e-learning by some of the best in the field. They are also the de facto home of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model… spoken of EXTREMELY variously on this show…
And so… the latest (for me!) from AU: a book by whose author and title are as promising as any e-learning lit that I’ve looked at across my career! This is, for sure, my next book-length professional reading!
Here is the link to the free e-book! And also the bibliographic reference…
Dron, J. (2023). How education works: teaching, technology, and technique. Athabasca University Press.
Equity, diversity, and inclusion in open education (Distance Education 44)I’m highlighting this now, cause I have the supreme privilege in a few weeks time of returning to Thompson Rivers University at the invitation of an excellent colleague to lecture to a class on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in educational contexts, broadly…
Suffice it to say that this is going to be downright essential reading in my own preparation for that Ed non-Tech Conversation… with a confirmed guest who I am absolutely stoked to be able to speak with… a PhD in a totally different field, with additional perspective on the BC post-secondary landscape… and a local connection from my teenaged years… BUT… I might have said too much already!!
Here is the full bibliographical reference!!
Iniesto, F., & Bossu, C. (2023). Equity, diversity, and inclusion in open education: A systematic literature review. Distance Education, 44(4), 694-711.
The Internet Classics Archive & Project GutenbergEvery so often I am reminded in one way or other about these two HIGHLY AWESOME online repositories…
[That statement leads me to the thought: is “online repository” an oxymoron in contemporary vernacular?]
Both the ICA and PG look distinctly… Web 1.0… and yet… they each fulfill their purpose brilliantly…
This is all to say… that if ever I needed a copy of Marcus’s Meditations on the fly… in an emergency situation… this has happened before!… there is always a direct route with an Internet connection… and those private notes-to-self… miraculously preserved across centuries and millennia… have saved me from severe depression more than once… including earlier this year!
They have also preserved a good many Penny Dreadfuls… including Varney the Vampire!
AI Teaching LibGuide (BCIT / Ian Linkletter)With contributions from a wide range of high-quality sources, this BCIT resource prepared by Ian Linkletter… a significant educator in BC Higher Ed now working as Emerging Technology & Open Education Librarian with BCIT… who has notably been involved in a series of lawsuits both by and against online exam proctoring service Proctorio…
For anyone in Canadian post-secondary, this is a timely, necessary publication. Its sections on terminology, along with links throughout to significant, contemporary resources ensures that educators and learners from other sectors… I am thinking of corporate learning and/or K-12… will be able to benefit significantly… it is, effectively, a sort of “one-stop shop” on this topic…
The Books and Articles and Liner Notes of Bob Mehr (Mats biographer and bestselling author)It would be wrong of me to end my notes for the first half of this Minneapolis Two-peat without acknowledging Bob Mehr… the THIRD Bob of significance in Replacements history…
*The other two being original guitarist Bob Stinson, and his replacement Bob “Slim” Dunlap
He’s won two Grammy awards for Best Liner Notes, for the Replacements Dead Man’s Pop reissue in 2022… and the notes for the Super-Deluxe re-issue of Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in 2023…
And that is just the start! The bio from his LinkedIn says it all succinctly… and it is pretty incredible…
Two-time GRAMMY-winning writer, editorial director, producer, and journalist with 20 years of experience creating acclaimed traditional, digital media, and audio content. Author of the New York Times best seller Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements. An NPR book of the year and one of Billboard’s “100 Greatest Music Books of All Time,” it also earned the ASCAP Foundation’s Timothy White Award for Outstanding Biography. Contributor to the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and U.S. correspondent for Europe’s leading music magazine, MOJO. Reissue producer and project consultant for major and independent labels, including Warner Music Group, Sony/Legacy, and Fat Possum Records.
Finally, if rock bios are your thing even remotely, I can’t recommend his Replacements biography Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements strongly enough…
Doug’s NotesReinforcement not replacementThere definitely needs to be a stronger research focus on the interaction between technology, pedagogy, curriculum, and student learning.
Achacoso, M. (2003). Evaluating technology and instruction: Literature review and recommendations. Texas: The University of Texas, 3.
In order to teach effectively in the digital age, teachers must realize that “teaching as you were taught” will no longer work.
Fawcett, G. & Juliana, M. (2003). Teaching in the Digital Age: “Teaching as You Were Taught” Won’t Work. in Rogers, P. L. (Ed.). (2003). Designing instruction for technology-enhanced learning. IGI Global.
Technology had an impact on the way her students learned.
Technology had an impact on the expectations of how teachers at Anne’s school were supposed to teach.
Palak, D., & Walls, R. T. (2009). Teachers’ beliefs and technology practices: A mixed-methods approach. Journal of Research on technology in Education, 41(4), 417-441.
“I’ve never had to repeat directions to students,” said no teacher, staff member, or central office personnel ever!
Soto, L. (2023, May 4). The benefits of using interactive videos in the classroom. Tech Notes. https://blog.tcea.org/interactive-videos/
Word of the PodcastReinforcement
Phrase of the PodcastI don’t care how you were taught!
Question of the PodcastHow do we ensure that the learning is reinforced by technology use?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln3iKL6wF-MHow young are you?
How old am I?
Let’s count the rings around my eyes #ednontechYou, whoever you are checking this out in any way… are downright IRREPLACEABLE! Let’s try & do this again soon!
Matt’s NotesWelcome everyone to the latest episode episode of the EnT! After a pair of awesome EnT conversations, we are back to the regular format… for now! On this outing we are talking about one of the most important processes in any educational enterprise… namely, preparation in education! Please check out the video and/or audio below!
https://youtu.be/nba5dqCBQ5sWrestling, doggos, scarves, sweaters, and tattoos… bringing the #ednontech game!!We prepared the video… and brought the audio as well, just in case! #ednontech
The Passenger (Cormac McCarthy)This book… and companion novel Stella Maris have devastated me… in the best possible way…
I put this down over two weeks ago… with thirty pages to go. I’ll sometimes do this with books that I literally don’t want to end.
What’s been going on since then… involving a former workplace and colleagues… Ed non-Tech Conversations… and some personal circumstances… have conspired to keep me from finding out where Cormac leaves Bobby Western and his doomed sister Alicia! And knowing that these will be the final pages in a lifetime of one of the most profound, influential American novelists of all time… let’s just say it’s a heavy proposition!
I’ve resolved to tuck in tonight and/or tomorrow, putting any and everything else aside but for putting this story to rest… and allowing myself to bask in the feelings of it all…
Likely this will lead to a final reflection of sorts in next episode’s podcast notes!
Blue Sky (Social app)I discovered this through an Ontario-based ed tech developer on LinkedIn!
Whilst usually a social media laggard… I still refuse to use TikTok or Snapchat… I’ve still yet to try Meta’s Threads… BlueSky seems like it could have some potential for text-based sharing… much like the “old” / pre-Musk Twitter… in fact Jack Dorsey, former Twitter boss, is on the board of directors… and, as per Wikipedia, it began as sort of an off-shoot of Twitter… and now exists as an independent organization and standalone app… as of January, 2024 there were over 2.9 million users…
Image via: Wikipedia
My personal usage is likely to be minimal! I can see using this for the foreseeable future for amplifying professional sharing… such as podcast episodes and whatnot… I’ve included a link to my LinkTree page in my bio… thus making it a sort of “liminal” social media space… sitting between my “fully professional” presence on LinkedIn… and my “extra-professional” presences, including through podcasts, blog, media, and social links. I also tested the blocking function on a former colleague! Turns out it’s pretty easy to use…
So… if you feel like adding me… please check out @matt506!!
Finally, if you are interested in getting started with BS but not sure how… check out this Znet article with screen-by-screen instructions!
Pre-X-Twitter-y! #ednontech
Principles of Blended Learning (Athabasca University Press)This is an excellent, necessary book by Mount Royal University education professor Norman D. Vaughan and colleagues!
Dr. Vaughan was an external examiner on my UCalgary Ed.D thesis defense back in 2017! Part of the reason for this was that he also completed his doctoral studies at UCalgary… another being that he and his colleagues have written extensively about the widely-used (and Canadian!) Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework for e-learning… CoI being the same framework informing my doctoral study!
There is much to like about this book… which likely deserves its own full blog post and/or podcast notes… but for now, I’ll limit my first takeaways to the following:
- Highly contemporary work, addressing key issues and lessons learned from the COVID 19 pandemic
- Seeking alignment between First Nations & Indigenous concepts and ways of knowing… including Medicine Wheel knowledge… with the BL principles being explored. Moreover, this is a significant thread which runs throughout the entire book. This is the first CoI literature which I’ve encountered which directly acknowledges and seeks to operationalize Indigenous knowledge and perspectives… as such, I think of this as a watershed kind of moment for CoI… and blended learning generally…
- Including the ADDIE model as a possible framework for blended learning group activities!
- Acknowledging that while CoI has mainly been used in Higher Ed settings and contexts, it is equally applicable to other areas including K-12, corporate learning, and more.
The book weaves deftly between conceptual frameworks and underpinnings… notably, but not exclusively, Community of Inquiry… and practices which can be implemented by educators of nearly any role, subject area, or position of responsibility.
I am sure that I will be referring to this, and other newer, contemporary CoI literature significantly in future episodes of the EnT!
Doug’s NotesPreparation in EducationWhat students learn is directly related to what and how teachers teach; and what they teach depends on the knowledge, skills, and commitments they bring to their teaching and the opportunities they have to continue learning in and from their practice.
Feiman-Nemser, S. (2001). From preparation to practice: Designing a continuum to strengthen and sustain teaching. Teachers college record, 103(6), 1013-1055.
Lesson planning allows teachers to explore multiple aspects of pedagogical content knowledge. …
In developing lesson plans, teachers have opportunities to think deeply about the subject matterShen, J., Poppink, S., Cui, Y., & Fan, G. (2007). Lesson planning: A practice of professional responsibility and development. Educational horizons, 85(4), 248-258.
The reasons given for lesson planning mostly focus on the role that planning plays in enabling student teachers to cope with the immediate demands of the lesson itself (their improved confidence in knowing what they need to do during the lesson).
Rusznyak, L., & Walton, E. (2011). Lesson planning guidelines for student teachers: A scaffold for the development of pedagogical content knowledge. Education as change, 15(2), 271-285.
Planning provides a thoughtful blueprint to guide our instruction. However, remember the learning environment is dynamic and ever-changing.
Rice, A. H., & Mars, M. (2023). Planning for Effective Instruction. The Art and Science of Teaching Agriculture: Four Keys to Dynamic Learning. https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/teachagriculture/chapter/planning-for-effective-instruction/
Word of the PodcastPreparation
Phrase of the PodcastWake up like you are doing it on purpose!
Question of the PodcastHow can educators adapt when their planning does not prepare them for what they are trying to teach?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9jp7nWFOL8Either it’ll move me
Or it’ll move right through me
Fully, completely #ednontechWe’re extremely grateful you joined us! Let’s do this again soon!!
Matt's Notes
Good evening! I'll put that out there, cause it's the evening where and when I am right now! We are glad you were able to find your way here for a discussion which in many ways dovetails nicely with our last topic... this time, instead of work-life balance... or perhaps, in extension of all that... we're talking about educator career satisfaction!
Even if you're not an educator yourself, somebody in your life is! So do themselves... and yourself... a solid by viewing or listening below!
https://youtu.be/3y5MTz_FPC4 Sometimes taking a break adds mirth to the normal mayhem... #ednontech
Make it so, Number One! Go get those Star Bucks! #ednontech
So... I thought TechSmith Camtasia might be done crunching the video by now!
In case you didn't pick up what I was putting down earlier, this is the second in a thematically-likened set of episodes...
Having the routine of a job again is something that I needed more that I was expecting. Just going in and having a "normal" workday in an office setting... so much part of my life for so long... feels still, after nearly two months... downright EXOTIC.
In the interests of adding at least one or two educationally-relevant nuggets to my section of the notes... here are a couple of items I saw fit to keep in my email inbox!
...but NEVER MIND, cause they're from LinkedIn, and you have to be signed in to see the articles... and I'm not going to intentionally drive anybody towards LinkedIn... which is, weirdly, my most connected of the three social sites I belong to... while also the one I populate and interact with the least frequently...
You'll have to take my word for it that those were some pretty rad reads from UNESCO! Or not!
But wait! Here's an article from Wired which has a really, really compelling lede:
Why do people panic when an AI chatbot tells us it “wants to be human," but not when inanimate object says it wants to be a “real boy"? Source: Wired.com
I don't think I go out on a better note than that! Until next time, friends...
That ain't workin'! That's the way you do it... #ednontech
Doug's Notes
Educator Career Satisfaction
It seems that mobility, productivity, and satisfaction are interrelated…
Patterson, L. E., Sutton, R. E., & Schuttenberg, E. M. (1987). Plateaued careers, productivity, and career satisfaction of college of education faculty. Career Development Quarterly, 35(3), 197-205.
“Poor-fit burnout”, indicating a lack of optimal match between the individual and the organization right from the point of hiring. The failure to become engaged in one’s work, due to lack of passion or interest in the assigned professional role, would lead to disengagement characterized by stagnation.
Robinson, B. C. (2005). Exploring career satisfaction, burnout, and compassion fatigue as indicators of the quality of career engagement of public school educators. West Virginia University.
The overwhelming evidence of teacher attrition and disengagement in our field has been a wake-up call for academic and professional organizations involved with teacher retention, training, and support.
Teacher retention and success is reflective of individual professional and personal experiences and how these behaviors were perceived.
Clemons, C. A., & Lindner, J. R. (2019). Teacher Longevity and Career Satisfaction in the Secondary Agricultural Education Classroom. Journal of Agricultural Education, 60(1), 186-201.
The following factors were shown to be important predictors of career satisfaction: a managerial position, engagement, job satisfaction, satisfaction with co-workers, satisfaction with opportunities for promotion and education, and satisfaction with salary.
Boštjančič, E., & Petrovčič, A. (2019). Exploring the relationship between job satisfaction, work engagement and career satisfaction: The study from public university. Human Systems Management, 38(4), 411-422.
Matt's Notes
Hi there! Thanks a lot for checking out this latest edition of the EnT!
This episode we're talking work/life balance! It feels appropriate given that we're in the final days before we launch into a brand new academic year! Please click below to watch and/or listen as per your preferences!
https://youtu.be/ZvQJ_WZnn9s You can have the audio... or the audio-video! #ednontech
Too many strands in these here interwebs to try and detangle now! #ednontech
Well, congrats to all of us!
Another summer under our collective belts!
A bit of housekeeping: we've updated the Land Acknowledgment section of the website to reflect the fact that I've moved from one coast to another in recent months...
I feel lately like I'm starting out again in lots of ways... and that's cause I am! New job in a new city... working in a new industry... living WITHOUT MY KIDS... was that a little loud?
But I'm feeling pretty settled, all things considered. My body is, despite the typical complaints of a mid-life person, ticking along as optimally as it ever does...
I'm just about at the point where these notes will have some actual academic and/or professional content. But... it's a weather check... the wind is carrying that autumnal tinge...
There's a 3 day novel writing contest over the Labour Day weekend and to be honest, my thoughts are spending most of their non-work time humming on what that might entail...
Thanks to Doug for keeping this #ednontech rolling! Thanks to the Stoic writers and contemporary translators and commentators for putting out so many of these awesome little books...
Here's hoping you don't find yourself more unbalanced than you can handle in the coming fall season!
Doug's Notes
Balancing the load: Educator work life balance
The teaching fraternity is chosen as they play a very pivotal role in the development of future generations. It is, therefore, essential to see that their work is not affected by their own personal needs, and hence the need for Work Life Balance (WLB).
Miryala, R., & Chiluka, N. (2012). Work-life balance amongst teachers. The IUP Journal of Organizational Behavior, 11(1), 37-50.
The concept of work-life balance comprises of three words i.e. work, life and balance, and broadly include proper prioritizing between work (career and ambition) on the one hand and life (health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development) on the other hand, and the balance is satisfaction and good functioning at work and at home with a minimum of role conflict.
… work life balance also helps the faculty to be more productive in their job accomplishments with their personal commitments and family affairs.
Punia, V., & Kamboj, M. (2013). Quality of work-life balance among teachers in higher education institutions. Learning Community-An International Journal of Educational and Social Development, 4(3), 197-208.
Several studies have amply demonstrated that work-family conflict affects both workers’ attitudes and the organizational behavior, such as job satisfaction, organizational commitment, turnover, absenteeism and organizational citizenship behaviors.
Maeran, R., Pitarelli, F., & Cangiano, F. (2013). Work-life balance and job satisfaction among teachers. Interdisciplinary Journal of Family Studies, 18(1).
… work-life balance addresses not only the structure of conflicts and family, but involves other concerns such as health, leisure activities, personal development and community commitments.
Franco, L. S., Picinin, C. T., Pilatti, L. A., & Franco, A. C. (2021). Work-life balance in Higher Education: a systematic review of the impact on the well-being of teachers. Ensaio: Avaliação e Políticas Públicas em Educação, 29, 691-717.
Word of the podcast
Balance
Phrase of the podcast
Happy to be back!
Question of the podcast
How can educators find balance in their lives with all the contradicting...
Matt's Notes
And now, somehow, seven weeks since the last episode went out... here we are!
A shout-out here to the patience... or is that resignation?... shown by my great colleague Dr. Doug!
You'll have more context for the absence later on, if you're so interested! But... to the topic at hand... our look at AI in Education continues... this time around with writing! As a reformed English teacher, you could say this is of especial interest to me!
https://youtu.be/J98GS7G2JKE The genteel, gray, and slightly puzzled hosts of this here #ednontech
Audio the likes of which you are unlikely to find anywhere else... #ednontech
So... it's not just a matter of making huge life transitions relatively quickly, it's also a matter of needing to let the dust settle a bit... and to let new routines and personalities show up freely... in the past I've tried to do too many things at once... like when I was starting at TRU AND teaching two sections of a graduate-level Education course at the same time!
I'm engaged in my new role... within the security field! It's a unique space for me! I'll be refraining from speaking directly about anything I'm involved with at work... but it'll also be cool to be able speak to the #edtech and #ednontech... from: A) outside post-secondary education for nearly the first time in my career; B) the first time in the not-for-profit sector; C) the security and defence and law enforcement space(s) wherein I work in a civilian capacity
So! That's probably more than I'll say for a while about any of that! You will no doubt appreciate... it is great to back in the world of work! Meaningful, significant work as an educator is like the sun shining after a run of glorious Saint John foggy days. Or something to that effect!
And to me, that feels significantly more UNAMBIGUOUS than my feelings about AI! And Language! I mean... I talk to people sometimes and feel like they COULD be AI...
It's nice to be back at this, and I look forward to resuming a more normal schedule for these episodes forthwith!
Oh and HA HA TWITTER HA HA WHAT A JOKE BRO' HA HA HEE HEE HOO HOO YOU'RE CALLED X NOW HOW STUPID IS THAT HA HA HEE HEE...
Clunk
Matt passes out from lack of oxygen, but he is smiling...
The inimitable Frankie Stubbs, author of the song at the bottom and therefore also the title of this episode engaged in a fine act of the The Stubbs Shuffle... #ednontech
Doug's Notes
AI & Education - the writing impact so far…
Not all AI is writing text, some is suggesting writing edits.
In the field of grammar, spelling, and punctuation correction, grammar's earliest breakthroughs in AI-powered writing enhancement occurred.
Fitria, T. N. (2021). Grammarly as AI-powered English writing assistant: Students’ alternative for writing English. Metathesis: Journal of English Language, Literature, and Teaching, 5(1), 65-78.
ChatGPT is an AI software potentially able to assist in the writing process of a scientific paper and can help in the literature review, identify research questions, provide an overview of the current state of the field, and assist with tasks, such as formatting and language review. Moreover, it can have applications in clinical practice as time-savers.
“As an AI model, I am not able to review or submit papers to journals as I am not a researcher or author. However, I can give you some feedback on the paper you've provided. The paper presents a clear and comprehensive overview of the potential uses of ChatGPT in scientific writing, specifically in the field of critical care medicine. The introduction provides a good background on chatbots and ChatGPT and how it can be used in various tasks.
Salvagno, M., Taccone, F. S., & Gerli, A. G. (2023). Can artificial intelligence help for scientific writing?. Critical care, 27(1), 1-5.
Artificial intelligence (AI) natural language processing (NLP) systems
However,
Matt's Notes
There came a time! That time is now!
It's been a while.
Maybe you noticed? I'm pretty sure Doug noticed... and likely Dan did as well, over at the punk podcast!
My bad, guys! And anybody else who is interested!
As per Doug's notes, we did this one about rubrics! I'm sure it's rad. Please click below as per your preferences...
https://youtu.be/ZZ19WYUx4Mg Fore-score and many weeks ago... #ednontech
Really, the centrepiece of this whole podcast deal is the audio... #ednontech
OK! I'm in a new city! My kids are here with me, spending much time with their Grandma and other rad family people! My new job is great! My new colleagues seem excellent so far! I've travelled across Canada 3 times in four weeks, and the last time it took two days! And we're doing it all over again in just a couple of weeks! And I've just lately contracted COVID! After going the entire pandemic without it! However, so far it's more or less flu-like...
Phew...
Anyways, my sincere gratitude to Doug, and to Dan over at the punk podcast. I stand by everything we said in this episode. I think!
Just another day with the LMS, amiright?? #ednontech
Doug's Notes
Tool Investigation - Rubrics
Increasing student dissatisfaction with assessment and feedback is an issue of international concern in higher education.
Standardised marking rubrics have been implemented in some institutions to address this.
Rubrics are viewed favourably by both staff and students as a method of enhancing consistency in assessment.
Co creation of rubrics with student enhances their acceptability and utility.
Rubrics are used most effectively when they are co-created with students.
Rubrics can enhance:
student performance
students' perceptions and use of feedback.
students' higher order learning
those learning outcomes that are related to critical thinking and writing.
Self-assessment and self-regulation can be developed so enhancing the ability of students to understand and make use of feedback.
Rubrics make clear what the expectations were for the work and that the rubric helped students construct their work.
Results indicated that students with access to a rubric performed better than students without in three areas:
higher marks,
more accuracy in self-assessment, and
higher scores for self-regulation.
Students who did not like standards find the rubric less helpful than those that were happy with the idea.
Cockett, A., & Jackson, C. (2018). The use of assessment rubrics to enhance feedback in higher education: An integrative literature review. Nurse education today, 69, 8-13.
Usefulness of rubrics
Students identified that access to a rubric prior to an assessment, with an explanation provided improved their confidence in the assessment process.
Students felt rubrics helped to clarify the expectations of academic staff in relation to the assessment task
students used the rubric as a ‘recipe’ that helped guide them and that it acted as a resource which they could use to complete their work to the required standard
Students found the criteria used in the rubric to be comprehensible and useful, the rubric was also used to;
assess progress,
structure the work, and
to reflect on their own competency in completing the work.
alignment of the rubric to the assessment was important for student engagement with it
Jonsson, A. (2014). Rubrics as a way of providing transparency in assessment. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 39(7), 840-852.
The use of rubrics enhanced the dialogue and relationship between instructors and students.
The rubric was used to assess different pieces of work, the relationship between the instructors and students was enhanced with a shared meaning and expectations developing about the assessment.
The rubric making expectations clear it was also found that students used the rubr...
Matt’s NotesHey there, one and all! It’s been two weeks… and too long… since our last episode! But Life Happens! More on this later…
In this episode we’re taking the first steps in what will doubtless be a longer engagement with AI tools, applications, and implications for education. Since this topic is “bleeding edge” and/or “happening in real time”… you can choose your preferred aphorism… there’s lots to say! But we’ve never let being late to a party keep us from crashing it, so let’s get crashing!
https://youtu.be/NK3BYhcFOs0Springing all the #ednontech that can reasonably be sprung…Big audio #ednontech dynamite contained herein…
As mentioned in the recordings, this has been a pretty tumultuous few weeks for me. I know, what else is new, right?
But… since the last recording… my remaining grandfather passed away… I turned forty-five years old… halfway to ninety! And the same age my grandfather was when he became a grandfather. Point of fact… I am in no way ready to be a grandfather! I like to think I’m OK at being a dad most of the time… but honestly, that is pretty hit and miss sometimes!
I have also been in pretty high gear with job interviews… including a FOURTH interview for a role that took place yesterday morning… out of all the opportunities I’ve tried for over the past year and a half, this seems like it has the most potential… that’s about all I can say on that at the moment, besides the dribs and drabs that may appear in the recording… BUT… suffice it to say that regardless of what happens professionally and personally in the coming weeks and months, this EnT Podcast will continue… unless Doug somehow decides otherwise…
Now, for something completely different!
While putting these notes together, naturally I searched for “mad scientist GIF’s”. And from this search, I became aware of this absolutely stunning horror film from 1962— The Brain That Wouldn’t Die…
Apart from the jarring visuals, presented for your pleasure here, I can’t help but seeing this as a kind of nifty metaphor for the CATASTROPHIZATION (new word alert!) of AI and the messy… monstrous?… cusp between “AI present” and “AI future”…
As it turns out, the film went immediately into the public domain upon release due to “a flawed copyright notice”, as per Wikipedia… and if that doesn’t speak, somehow to both the current state of AI and the current state of Open Educational Resources (OER), I don’t know what does!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDATL2zpj6kWe advocate none of this, but we also can’t look away… #ednontechDo you have 82 more minutes to kill? You can watch the entire film here… but before that, do take a moment or more to check out my latest and maybe silliest social media experiment thus far… The Sad Dads of AI on Facebook! It is recent, it hasn’t been updated for more than a week, and it is deeply, deeply silly… BUT… not without some strong #ednontech value! I practically guarantee I will be talking to this later…
A few other resources that I’ve found lately that are either thought-provoking and helpful… or LOOK that way…
- Clint Lalonde Acting Director, Open Education at BCcampus, wrote a very thoughtful blog post about some of the implications for AI… namely Chat… and open education…
- A book that I’m DYING to read is now available to read this fall is now available for pre-order: An Introduction to Narrative Generators: How Computers Create Works of Fiction by computational creativity scholar Rafael Pérez y Pérez Professor at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana at Cuajimalpa, México City, and Open University Professor Emeritus of Educational Technology Mike Sharples… this checks lots of boxes, relative to my interests, and it is going to be SICK… to use a term…
- The US Department of Education has released a new report: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning… while I have yet to look deeply into its 70+ pages, this is a significant resource which we will no doubt be returning to in future episodes of this podcast…
Doug’s NotesAI & Education – the visual impact so far…What makes the synergy between artificial intelligence and graphics a new paradigm, rather than just a collection of techniques, is that it fundamentally changes the way we view interaction between people and computers.
Lieberman, H. (1996). Intelligent graphics. Communications of the ACM, 39(8), 38-48.
The connection between graphics and AI is becoming increasingly strong, and, it is now clear that AI research can benefit tremendously from embodiment in virtual worlds.
Thórisson, K. R., Pennock, C., List, T., & DiPirro, J. (2004). Artificial intelligence in computer graphics: A constructionist approach. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, 38(1), 26-30.
The AI TA could also automatically provide teaching and professional development resources (texts, images, videos, augmented- reality animations, links, network connections) that the teacher might choose to call upon to support their teaching.
Holmes, W., Bialik, M., & Fadel, C. (2023). Artificial intelligence in education. Globethics Publications.
The fact that almost all images generated by artificial intelligence give results in accordance with the text, and almost all of them are quite good. As a result, it is concluded that the potential for using images generated by artificial intelligence for educational purposes is high.
Aktay, S. (2022). The usability of images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in education. International Technology and Education Journal, 6(2), 51-62.
Adobe adds generative AI to PhotoshopThe new AI tools will work similarly to other AI image creation technology, such as Midjourney and DALL-E, which allow people to produce pictures from simple text prompts.
Ward, J., Rangel, X., & Ruberg, S. (2023, May 23). Adobe adds generative AI to Photoshop. NBC News.
Word of the podcastArtificial intelligence
Phrase of the podcastQuestion of the podcastHow could educators use AI to help improve student learning opportunities?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF297rN_8OYEgghead boys
With thin white legs
They got modified features
And software brains
But that’s what the girls like
The geeks were right
When I saw the future
The geeks were right
ednontechWe are genuinely pleased you’d spend this time with us!! We can’t wait to all it again in a week or two…
Matt’s NotesHappy Victoria Day! For those who partake… in Quebec, you might be celebrating National Patriot’s Day… and elsewhere… it might just be Monday!
This episode is the first in what will probably be a series of investigations on specific tools and applications… We’re leaning into the TECH of the Ed non-Tech this episode… with a look at SPLOT’s… a uniquely Canadian ed tech phenomenon! For our first run at this, please click below… as per your preferences!
https://youtu.be/n7i75Iapg5sWe’re full of beans… and sharkbait! #ednontechHere’s wishing you a SAFE… and, likely, SPLOT-less holiday… #ednontech
So… I don’t necessarily have much to add to what’s in the recordings!
Out of the various tools and applications we were considering… Doug… in his capacity as Director and Chief Executive and Primary Imagineer really felt strongly about pursuing this topic…
I’m along for the ride! Past employment situations aside, I am deeply committed to the Open Web… and particularly WordPress websites… as beneficial to education in all kinds of ways… the mind is staggered by the possibilities… for some, there could be entire careers to be had in teaching and learning vis-à-vis various configurations of WordPress… well thought-out, informed by peer-reviewed literature, white papers, high-level conference proceedings, and other scholarly accounts for development and educational practice…
I mean, I got the WP logo etched into my skin. It’s the most picked at of all my tatts… last numbering at nearly twenty… and it is due for a touch-up… which I will get when I am once more gainfully… even less-than-gainfully… employed in some kind of capacity… beyond SELF-employed…
All y’all leaders and administrators with your budgets… and all y’all tenured, tenure-track, sessional, unemployed, and/or post-academic-ish folks… we salute you! #ednontech
Will I be the person to re-invent the class website? Probably not. At this point, I’m searching for a landing in a paid situation somewhere in the education sector that lets me feel like I’m doing meaningful work… with soul and dignity intact…
To that end, I’m grateful to have this podcast as a creative way of staying engaged in the field… and for the attendant benefits… from the punk podcast… to the consulting venture… and to the new online publication… unpretentiously and also unironically called The Best New Canadian Writing... and we are accepting submissions!
All of this is manifesting through WordPress. All of it has, if not widespread value… it might not be reaching a ton of people… but it is sincere. There is some kind of plan behind all of it. And you can fill a thimble with all this and all the other good things that go with it…
I think, based on the Excel sheet Doug shared with me, that further episodes of the EnT will include investigations into various aspects of AI… and other applications and tools. Thanks for joining us… and uh… WATCH OUT FOR LANDSHARKS!! (Editor: That’s pretty random, dude…)
Beware of bumbling academics bearing GIF’s! #ednontech
Doug’s NotesTool Investigation – SPLOT or A Very Special Episode of the Ed non-Tech PodcastWe are back to naming issues…
Definitions
- spot, blot, patch or plot of land
- segment
- an off-split, segment
- to split
- tangle, a tangled twisted mass
- weave, pattern of weaving
- stitch, pattern of knitting
- (anatomy) plexus, cervical plexus
- (mathematics) convolution
- A volume of spilled oil
Names
splot – statistical data tool
s-PLOT- vegetation plot database
SPLOT – model verification tool
SPLOT – Smallest Possible Learning Open Tools
“The acronym is vague and playfully undefined on purpose”
Clever is not always useful and often demonstrates lack of depth of thought.
They repeatedly state that they like the lack of thought they have put into this. That should have a trigger warning for educators that think and care about students.
The lack of academic literature is a warning flag.
What is useful with this tool?
What educators who care about students would use this?
Can I get some names of these educators?
This type of thing is exactly what I have been talking about regarding issues with edtech in this podcast.
Lack of critical thought
Lack of clarity
Lack of goals
Lack of usefulness
Lack of reason
Lack of focus on students or educators
Too much self-congratulation.
Or Razzie, or Rotten Tomato or Ignoble award, you get the point.When the industry stepped away from a “tool” nearly a decade ago, this was not about education. It must be about something other than education, and this is the Ed non-Tech podcast and we are about education.
I wished I had one of these when I was trying to investigate this “tool”. I just wanted to hide from this…
Word of the podcastWhy?
Phrase of the podcast Lack of depth of thought.
Question of the podcastWhat makes a tool or technique worth using with students?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w9sCTtZ9EAI’m going to the darklands
To talk in rhyme
With my chaotic soul
As sure as life means nothing
And all things end in nothing
And heaven I think
Is too close to hell
ednontechThank you so much for spending some time with us!! We appreciate you, and we’re looking forward to the next outing already!
Matt’s NotesHappy Monday! Or whatever day it happens to be when you’re reading this! Doug & I dug into a fairly substantial topic over the weekend… namely the how’s and why’s and wherefores of demonstrating learning… an especially especially significant conversation in the world of ed tech… and, more broadly, the learning sciences in general… how do we make learning explicit? This is, no doubt, something we will be returning to periodically throughout the life of this show! For our first takes on this, please click below as per your preferences…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCctUU_4hfIWe expect ourselves to have a good time… & hopefully you will, as well! #ednontechWe’ve got way more questions than answers… and we wouldn’t have it any other way! #ednontech
So… the past few days I’ve been fairly industrious (?) inasmuch as I’ve updated the Ed non-Tech Sandbox for the first time in ages. I am sure Doug and I will be speaking to this to one degree or another in coming episodes…
Rather than go “fully techy” in the text of these notes, I’ve prepared a brief “bonus” video speaking to this process… a rationale for the choices made when updating the site… hopefully this satisfies the need to justify what we’re up to… Doug and I both believe strongly that it’s important to demonstrate our emerging approaches to teaching and learning vis-à-vis educational technology and/or instructional media and/or whatever your preferred term and associated jargon… and we’re probably overdue for an episode revisiting our preferred terms and the implications for practice and scholarship, come to think of it!
https://youtu.be/flQXfZTjkloAs these notes are more than a little media-heavy already, I’ll leave it at that for now. Thanks to Doug for selecting a topic and resources which cut across many of the other discussions we’ve had thus far! Thanks to anyone out there anywhere who is checking this out! While we might be having these conversations anyway, it really is you that makes this a worthwhile endeavor… full stop!
He persists! As long as there are media, Robert Johnson will be there. Whatever kind of bargain he struck with persons or entities unknown… you can’t argue with the results!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iwzXn15A7YHe learned something at the Crossroads… and we are forever enriched… #ednontechDoug’s NotesDemonstrating learningThe normal and conventional goal is writing to demonstrate learning … But there is another important kind of writing that is less commonly used and valued, and so I want to stress it here: writing for learning.
Elbow, P. (1994). Writing for learning—not just for demonstrating learning. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1-4.
Using “many different measures” doesn’t mean giving your students eight multiple-choice tests instead of just a midterm and final. We know now that students learn and demonstrate their learning in many different ways.
Suskie, L. (2000). Fair Assessment Practices Giving students equitable opportunities to demonstrate learning. AAHE BULLETIN, 52(9), 7-9.
Students indicated that the new strategies allowed students to do self-study under the guidance of the course lecturer and that this enabled them a level of convenience not allowed under the traditional teaching methodology.
George, M. L. (2020). Effective teaching and examination strategies for undergraduate learning during COVID-19 school restrictions. Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 49(1), 23-48.
McLoughlin’s Inclusive Pedagogical Model demonstrates that it is extremely important to combine student involvement with real world tasks and underscores the notion that one cannot obtain knowledge without collaboration and active participation.
Singh, J., Steele, K., & Singh, L. (2021). Combining the best of online and face-to-face learning: Hybrid and blended learning approach for COVID-19, post vaccine, & post-pandemic world. Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 50(2), 140-171.
Word of the PodcastDemonstrate
Phrase of the PodcastI love a good malapropism.
Question of the PodcastGrowing up, how often were you given the opportunity to demonstrate learning differently?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Leo9HSaGQWe had the greatest expectations… #ednontechThanks so much for spending some time with us today! We hope we’ve met… or exceeded… your expectations for an education podcast! In any case, we look forward to joining you again sooner rather than later!
Matt’s NotesOK, OK! Most of these notes have been ready in WP for awhile now… for a change! And the recordings are circa four days ago… from May the Fourth!… for those who partake! All we’re waiting for now are my odds and ends… emphasis on odd, fyi… so I better get ‘er done! This time we’re about Hearting TLC’s… and CELT’s… and many other lovely acronyms… which spell out ways your local teaching centre can help remedy… and downright ENHANCE… your teaching practices! Please click below for the audio and the video as per your heart’s contentment…
https://youtu.be/CPuWKNmzKw0Don’t let our relative lack of sartorial flair fool you… we are beaming with and from this #ednontech…Here’s hoping the audio lives up to the SIGNIFICANT promise implied by the still from the video… #ednontech
This past week has been characterized by a few leaps on the Ed Tech front… at least from my standpoint!
My newish consulting venture… cause I’m self-employed as Doug is kind enough to keep reminding me… now has a similarly newish website! Please feel free to check it out! I’ve included a phone number and email to go with said venture… which I realize opens me up to spam and trolling… but if I can’t handle a few trolls or bots or people with bad or weird intentions… then honestly I would have avoided the educational technology business altogether. And that’s not sour grapes… simply… anything on the Internet is open to such… and I believe, as far as it goes, in “walking like we talk it”… we may have an episode on the positive value of trolling… and how we as educators in the e-learning space can roll with it, adapt, and come out stronger… because learning anything is, at least in my world, almost never comfortable… nor should it be… the past 15 months of being “self-employed” and/or “freelancing” have made me more convinced of this than ever… and, truly, as per the Stoics, I am immensely grateful for these opportunities for profound learning and growth… the obstacle is the way…
A screenshot of some H5P turkeys… see below… which is intended as an example of potential uses of AI for art education; and for ed tech development…
We made some mention during the episode of a specific e-learning application… a variation on a WordPress submission and posting format… while acronyms are still in the process of being decided… and I’ve made a few JOKING suggestions for such on my PERSONAL social media… the jury… namely that comprised of Doug and myself… is still out on what to call it… and how this new application and associated terminology… including naming and acronymizing… may DIFFERENTIATE itself from formats and applications CURRENTLY IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN vis-à-vis Creative Commons Licensing… and if, somehow, you saw such comments and were offended by my admittedly low-brow humor… then I’d say you’re probably pretty privileged to be piqued by so little… but… to each their own… as per both Marcus Aurelius… and the norms of common Internet usage…
In any case, my first attempts… at the still-to-be-properly-acronymized new open learning application for WordPress… will be ready over at the Ed non-Tech Sandbox site… since we haven’t yet done anything with it since last Thanksgiving… hence the turkey theme… but… ya know… I’m kinda partial to the birds… especially now that I’m vegan and against harming animals for any reason… so… here’s an H5P rendering of some turkeys created using the Bing AI Image Generator… as these are H5P objects, feel free to remix and/or adapt these turkeys as per your preferences… we will not be offended! In fact, we encourage such usage, as it is conducive to CREATIVE and CRITICAL DISCOURSE… even if you were to use these with say…a satirical intent...
But I digress! Which is pretty common given my mentality lately… and given the fact that I have such an abundant surplus of time… compared to those who may feel more constrained… due to having external (read: paying, stable, and benefit-providing) employment…
The turkey is a large bird in the genus Meleagris, native to North America— Wikipedia— and they deserve to live without being eaten… Dr. Matt S
Some Wild Turkeys
9 sets of turkeys… each in the style of a famous artist. See how many artists you can name before reaching slide #10 with the answers! Like what you see here? Download the H5P file and remix and/or reuse to your heart’s content! #ednontech
This was not the only experiment in “kicking the tires” of the Image Generator… one piece that I came up with today… a series of slides, effectively, limited to ten in number by Instagram’s strictures… makes me feel like there is much to appreciate vis-à-vis AI and an inquiry-driven approach to teaching and learning…
But that is for another time!
As per recent FB Messenger chats, Doug and I will be taking a deep dive on specific #edtech and #ednontech tools and applications in some of the coming episodes… including various applications of AI!
Thanks as ever for spending some time with us! We definitely appreciate it…
Doug’s NotesIntroducing Centres of Teaching & Learning: Why we have our bumper sticker idea in previous podcasts1. leverage partnerships and communication between CTLs and engineering faculty, administrators, and students; 2. enhance teaching effectiveness, including how is it defined, measured, developed, practiced, used, rewarded, and supported; 3. identify and use promising teaching and learning practices that are evidence-based; 4. promote a culture change for valuing teaching and learning in engineering disciplines; 5. organize professional development for faculty that is targeted to career lifecycle needs; 6. help faculty become more efficient in their teaching; 7. facilitate multi-institutional collaborations to support scalable and sustainable professional development opportunities across campuses; and 8. ensure the ongoing assessment of students, learning outcomes, courses, programs, and related items.
Varma-Nelson, P., Hundley, S., & Tarr, T. (2011, June). The role of centers for teaching and learning in improvement of undergraduate engineering education. In 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition (pp. 22-1498).
CTLs are committed to informing and advancing the institution as a whole.
CTLs can serve an integrative function, bringing together groups of faculty, staff, and administrators from across an institution.
Dickens, E., Cruz, L., Alderson, J., Atias, D., Graham, R., Hurney, C. A., … & Wang, C. (2019). Starting a center for teaching and learning. POD Speaks, 3, 1-6.
Roles of CTL
- Outreach
- Motivations
- Expectations
- Change Agents
The work of CTLs are seemingly guided by theory, yet, it is not always articulated or obvious to instructors who attend their programming.
This is the first non-host thesis I have included in the podcast.
Dunn, S. (2020). Perceptions of Outreach, Theory, and Practice at Centers for Teaching and Learning. Illinois State University.
Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA)
“Working with Teachers: A Handbook for Teacher Educators.” Teaching in Sub-Saharan Africa, Open University, 2021, www.open.edu/openlearncreate/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=153824&printable=1.
The 3 things that I’d say to anyone new to the CTL world are:
- CTLs live in the liminal space between an academic discipline and an institutional service organization.
- The CTL world is changing.
- CTLs, and the academics who work in them, should be at the forefront of leading institutional change.
Kim, J. (2018). 3 Things That Someone New to the CTL World Should Know: A liminal academic / service discipline, a time of great change, and the opportunity to lead. [Blog post]. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/3-things-someone-new-ctl-world-should-know
Other monikers:
- Centre of Teaching & Learning (CTL)
- Centre for Learning & Teaching (CLT)
- Centre of Technology for Teaching & Learning (CTTL)
- Learning Commons (LC)
- Teaching Commons (TC)
- Centre for Academic Faculty Excellence (CAFE)
- Teaching & Learning Centre (TLC)
- Centre for Development of Teaching & Learning (CDTL)
- Centre for Learning (CL)
- Centre for Engaged Teaching & Learning (CETL)
- Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, & Leadership (CETLL)
- Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching (CELT)
- Learning Centre (LC)
- Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT)
- Faculty Development Center (FDC)
- Academic Support Center (ASC)
Word of the PodcastHeart emoji
Phrase of the PodcastSemantic preferences and local context
Question of the PodcastWhy haven’t people spent more time collaborating with CTLs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZUbuVokKc8I need a remedy of diesel and dust… #ednontechWe’re grateful you’re not sick of us… yet! It’s been a pleasure, and we can’t wait to check in again really soon!
Matt’s NotesG’day, howdy! We’re bringing you another episode after exactly one week… which aligns with the original intent of the programme… wherein we are finishing up our deep dives on the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework… at least for now!… with a close look at cognitive presence! Please see the media below, & click accordingly!
https://youtu.be/c2frEOnayaIA special early… EARLY… episode sees us cognitively sharpish & caffeinated to the hilt… #ednontechGoing strictly by the clock, we went long on this episode! That may be due to the early hour; 10:00 (Atlantic Standard Time) / Way way earlier than that (Pacific).
And cause it seems I’m constitutionally incapable of doing things on any kind of “normal” timeframe… I’ll own that it’s before 03:00 PST as I’m typing these notes…
My chronic and severe obstructive sleep apnea ensures that I can’t sleep for more than three hours at a time without waking up… often in gasping, coughing distress… I was on a really good run using a machine to help with this… but I’ve lately fallen off the “fully oxygenated brain” wagon… despite remaining steadfast in my vegan diet, enhanced exercise programme, and abstinence from alcohol, cannabis, and anything else “fun” really… besides caffeine… which I’ve taken to taking in enhanced quantities…
What’s this to do with cognitive presence? Nothing… and everything… to the extent that everything in this podcast is, for better or for worse, processed through the three-pound organ encased in my totally normal human cranium… with cognition… a function of the mind… seated in that throne of bone & gray matter…
*And what goes on in Doug’s three-pound organ is entirely unique… and also equally vital to this (podcasting) endeavour…
What’s awesome about the CoI elements is that they’re all interdependent in the enterprise of e-learning… cognitive presence, therefore, requires both social and teaching presences in order to manifest… effectively answering the age-old question about the tree falling in the forest… as per CoI, it does NOT make a sound… to the extent that sound is a human construct requiring the presence of human beings to be meaningful… whether sound exists as phenomena for birds, woodchucks, or other creatures of the forest is beside the point… learning, like sound in the proverbial forest as the metaphorical tree crashes whether from lightning strike, earthquake or what-have-you… is a thing for humans… and while other orders of sentient beings… [insert nervous quip about AI here]… may “learn”… learning as we experience it requires self-referential capacity… i.e., an advanced mirroring function of neurons… and advanced levels of neuroplasticity… which have yet to be observed in other sentient beings… mechanical or otherwise…
All of which is accounted for in the simple, elegant construct of cognitive presence.
Phew… that is about as much pseudo-philosophical extemporizing as I’m capable of today… and by “today” I mean at least until the next episode… which, in keeping with our “schedule correction” will be recorded and produced in three days and a wake-up…
Thanks as ever to Doug for bringing CoI to the forefront of this enterprise… it’s been a slice… and for sure we’ll be revisiting this… and potentially going deeper still… in episodes to come.
Doug’s NotesA Deeper Dive into COI – Cognitive PresenceCognitive presence is operationalized through four sub-phases including:
- a triggering event (defining and understanding the problem),
- exploration (exploring the issue through discussion and critical reflection),
- integration (constructing meaning from ideas developed through exploration), and
- resolution (applying new knowledge in a real-world context).
Element Categories Indicators (Examples Only)
Sample from DCOImooc.org
When not enough effort went into designing for cognitive presence.
The task here was to identify the essential properties of asynchronous online learning that will enhance cognitive presence and learning effectiveness. It is the asynchronicity and connectivity properties of online learning that offer the potential for the unique integration of reflective and collaborative learning opportunities.
Garrison, D. (2003). Cognitive presence for effective asynchronous online learning: The role of reflective inquiry, self-direction and metacognition. Elements of Quality Online Education: Practice and Direction, 4(1), 47-58.
This oft used process is the opposite of cognitive presence.
Cognitive presence is the extent to which learners are able to construct meaning through sustained communication. Moreover, cognitive presence is the key element in critical thinking, a necessary element for higher levels of thinking and learning.
Kanuka, H. & Garrison, D (2004). Cognitive presence in online learning. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 15(2), 21-39.
Some Community of Inquiry educators need to be like the caddy.
Reviews of the literature are some of my favourites!
A final note for practitioners to consider is how they might continue to contribute to the literature as they implement activities that foster CoI. … However, many of the articles did not provide great specificity or examples of instructional approaches deployed. As more research is conducted around cognitive presence and CoI, practitioners can provide best practice recommendations to be adopted and applied to online courses.
Moore, R. & Miller, C. (2022). Fostering cognitive presence in online courses: A systematic review (2008-2020) Online Learning, 26(1).
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Implications for Teaching Practice
- Higher education students enrolled in online courses should be taught how to learn effectively in the online mode
- Online educators must embed learning tasks that foster self-regulation and higher-order skills in students
- Online course design should include authentic tasks for students to apply new knowledge to real-life scenarios
- Online educators must be offered ample professional development activities to build their skills in online pedagogy
- Institutions should encourage translation of online educational research to practice
Maranna, S., Willison, J., Joksimovic, S., Parange, N., & Costabile, M. (2022). Factors that influence cognitive presence: A scoping review. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 38(4), 95-111.
Word of the PodcastPractitioners
Question of the PodcastAre we designing to reduce cognitive presence in our teaching?
https://youtu.be/OJ62RzJkYUoWith your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there’s nothing in it
And you’ll ask yourself
Where is my mind?
ednontechWe have thought… or is that thunk?… our way to the end of another episode! We’re looking forward to seeing you again really, really soon (really!)!
Matt’s NotesWelcome, welcome! We’re stoked to have you aboard for the latest episode of the EnT! No special occasions here… just the latest in our series on the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework. Click below as per your preferences!
https://youtu.be/mi1PsxWet0kThe #ednontech today is like… chef’s kissI’m going to confess that… as my personal life has taken on new dynamics through my new relationship… my perspective on many things is changing.
Hence being a vegan.
Hence being more mindful of— and engaged with— the LGBTQIA2S+community… and the many challenges and issues these folks deal with on a daily… hourly… basis.
I’ve read two books… one about the global meat industry, the other interrogating contemporary norms surrounding sex, intimacy, and monogamy…
So, inasmuch as my lived experience within my body has shifted… so accompanies a shift in perspective…
I’ve been unemployed for 14 months nearly to the day… and my days are actually pretty excellent… as I remarked to my mom the other day during our too-infrequent phone calls (which is on me): if this was what the rest of my life was going to be like, I’d be OK with that…
But for the need of mazuma… and possibly an online thesaurus…
As I mentioned in the podcast, I feel pretty removed from my doctoral thesis on Social Presence in MOOC’s… not just in time (six years in September) but also in my detachment from most career-related things generally…
In terms of e-learning things, I taught myself how to create a LYRIC music video for Samiam’s great new song Monterey Canyon… essentially a music video with burned-in captions… using footage of octopi from Pixabay and Shutterstock… all of which required me to up my Camtasia game… while speaking to the sanctity of all kinds of life through the beautiful lyrics and the evocative, vaguely mysterious movements of these sensitive, dynamic, downright SOCIAL mollusks (see what I did there?).
https://youtu.be/5h959KRTiccI’d also like to give a shoutout to Doug who… in the nearly two weeks (!?) since this episode was recorded… was very patient with my ongoing production delays… and who in this time created an absolutely sick digital card for the podcast…
Also, Doug is now on LinkedIn… and I’ve revamped my profile for the first time in many years… we’re “branching out” as much as possible (see what I did there?) across as many platforms and apps as we can. Socialness abounds!
In the world of writing, I’d prefer to go much longer… but in the world I am now inhabiting… namely, dinner hour on Wednesday (Pacific Standard Time), I’m visiting my lovely friend’s house… and we’ll be having dinner and probably some TV episodes soon…
As such, I bid you adieu! Doug and I are fully engaged and committed here, I think… and there’s no reason to imagine we won’t be doing this for many more months in the future… if not years…
Doug’s NotesA Deeper Dive into COI – Social PresenceSocial presence consists of:
- communication between and with the instructor and all members of the class,
- interaction with the instructor and all members of the class,
- relation of a learning community throughout the term, and
- moves from introduction to community to camaraderie.
Sample from DCOImooc.org
… we went back to the origins of social presence as was formulated by Short et al (1976). It turned out that their definition actually represents two constructs, namely (1) ‘social presence’ (as the degree of ‘realness’ of the other in the communication), and (2) social space (as the degree to which social interpersonal relationships are salient).
Kreijns, K., Van Acker, F., Vermeulen, M., & Van Buuren, H. (2014). Community of inquiry: Social presence revisited. E-learning and Digital Media, 11(1), 5-18.
The main framework has evolved from a description of the learning process in a social constructivist paradigm to an empirically testable construct within an objectivist paradigm.
Annand, D. (2011). Social presence within the community of inquiry framework. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 12(5), 40-56.
As access to and use of computer conferencing increased during the 1990s, online educators began to think more and more about how the lack of non-verbal and relational cues in computer mediated communication influences the social process of teaching and learning.
Richardson, J. C., & Lowenthal, P. (2017). Instructor social presence: Learners’ needs and a neglected component of the community of inquiry framework.
Motivation is essential to assuming responsibility for self and co-regulated (shared metacognition) approaches to learning. Conversely, self and co-regulation is conducive to enhancing motivation.
Garrison, D. R. (2022). Motivation and the CoI framework.
Having camera on during online classes increases social appearance anxiety, which decreases learning of students— Psypost.org
Word of the PodcastCommunity creation
Question of the PodcastHow do you develop social presence when you are in an educational role?
https://youtu.be/ofb2UZhMXyg You should pay rent in my mind #ednontechIt should never be in question… we like you… one heck of a lot! We’ll see you around the way!
Matt’s NotesGreetings and welcome to what was, ostensibly, a Good Friday episode of the EnT! While it is no longer Friday… nor any kind of stat holiday… we hope the day… and the Springtime, generally, has been kind to you thus far… Please click along with us in your preferred format(s)!
https://youtu.be/n8gqqNcfey4Matt is squinting from the blinding brightness of all the #ednontechFirst of all, I’d like to re-up a few things…
I’ve always had a difficult relationship with education. I was far from academically gifted in school… but English and Social Studies always grabbed my attention.
I was told by more than one teacher in high school that I could’ve been a successful student… were it not for my OUTSIDE INTERESTS.
Those interests included at the time: cigarettes, weed, alcohol, acid, and a part-time job wherein I often worked close to full-time hours any given week…
BUT
Those “outside interests” also included reading novels and poetry and whatever else I could get my hands on… and whatever my friends thought may have been cool…
They also included buying CD’s and records to the extent that I could afford to… and going to any punk or alternative show that I could… barring a shift at McDonald’s…
An early “mobile classroom”
I recognize and respect that my teachers saw a lot of “unrealized potential” when I was in their classrooms. So it likely would’ve surprised them… as it should’ve… that, nearing the age of thirty, I took the plunge and jumped into teaching… at first, by default (what else could I do for a living?) and then by commitment…
Which brings us, in a roundabout way, to the present moment… wherein I’ve been on an unpaid sabbatical of sorts for nearly fourteen months…
The things that I loved in high school have changed very little. My “outside interests” have been the subject of discussions with more than one manager since becoming a teacher… usually within the context of concern for my “work-life balance”. And, as far as it goes, I still don’t have a driver’s license.
Yesterday evening, in a fit of pique, I smashed my keyboard against the desk. My kids freaked out a bit to see me so freaked out. The cause of my rage? The cursor wouldn’t behave the way I wanted it to in Camtasia. I took a few deep breaths; reminded myself that Marcus Aurelius wouldn’t countenance such behavior… and I pushed the keys that had scattered across the table and floor back into position in the keyboard…
I’ve been drug and alcohol free for more than a month… barring the two beer that I had last night to help wash away the sting of the Raptor’s ignominious defeat in the NBA play-in tournament.
This morning I went out early to Shopper’s Drug Mart to buy a replacement keyboard so that I could finish this post in a timely manner… and on the way home, I ran into my former colleague Brenna from the Thompson Rivers University Learning Technology and Innovations (LTI) team… the unit I belonged to for four years before my own premature and ignominious departure… inasmuch as the Raptors and I have things in common…
It was a brief chat on the sidewalk at the corner of Summit and Notre Dame Drives. She was going in one direction, and I was going in the other. Dr. Clarke Grey was recently awarded tenure and promotion. And I can honestly say that nobody I encountered in my time at TRU deserves it more… despite my own weird and vaguely depressing time there… it was great to see her in person and tell her congratulations. As Marcus A pointed out in his Meditations… don’t assume because something is difficult for you that it is impossible for others…
If I hadn’t smashed my keyboard last night; if I hadn’t briefly broken sobriety; if I hadn’t been working to finish the podcast post into the night… then I might’ve missed the opportunity to tell Brenna in person that she completely deserves the success she’s had in her role… not that she needed to hear that from me!
I’m trying a new thing today… I’ll be putting out this post along with the next episode… roughly around the same time… this due to my convoluted production schedule more than from any great plan.
Thanks as ever to Doug for the compelling topic, friendship, and patience… hopefully this all comes across as at least somewhat relevant to the #ednontech…
Doug’s Notes A Deeper Dive into COI – Teaching PresenceFrom DCOImooc.org:
- explain the difference between teaching and teacher presence and why the distinction is important
- describe the roles of design and organization, facilitation, and direct instruction in teaching presence and strategies to balance them
- analyze your current practice for indicators of effective teaching presence and where you might make adjustments
Redefine and transform the instructor’s role. From the ability to shift the time and place of learning, to the use of new media, web-based resources, and various teaching formats and modalities, your role as an online or blended educator shifts from providing information to guiding learners in their own, collaborative knowledge-finding. Some of these key responsibilities can be described as:
- designing and organizing learning activities,
- facilitating students learning processes,
- sharing content knowledge,
- monitoring activity supporting the cognitive progression of learners,
- assessing student performances, and
- creating and maintaining a social learning climate where there are plenty of opportunities for learners to develop professional relationships characterized by trust and openness.
To be clear, leadership manifested as TP [Teaching Presence] is essential to initiate and sustain critical inquiry in an educational environment.
https://www.thecommunityofinquiry.org/editorial29
Garrison, D. R. (2021). Teaching Presence Meta-analysis. The Community of Inquiry, 16.
… teaching presence was a significantly strong positive factor associated with course satisfaction; when one tends to increase or decrease, so does the other.
Khalid, M. N., & Quick, D. (2016). Teaching Presence Influencing Online Students’ Course Satisfaction at an Institution of Higher Education. International Education Studies, 9(3), 62-70.
… many of the specific guidelines associated with teaching presence—e.g., providing students with clear goals, frequent feedback, and strong direct instruction, [are listed in detail with practical examples.]
Yuldashevna, Z. N., & Mambetullaeva, M. (2022). Importance of Teaching Presence in the classroom. Journal of New Century Innovations, 10(4), 114-119.
… there is a significant variation among categories of teaching
presence across the three time segments.
… in this context, social presence was not found as important as teaching presence or cognitive presence in terms of student learning.
Akyol, Z., & Garrison, D. R. (2008). The development of a community of inquiry over time in an online course: Understanding the progression and integration of social, cognitive and teaching presence. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 12, 3-22.
Word of the PodcastTeaching
Question of the PodcastHow do you develop teaching presence when you are in an educational role?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQfrHkjvx6gSomething I learned today
Black and white is always gray
ednontechThanks so much for checking out this episode! We hope the springtime has been awesome for you so far!
Matt’s NotesHey there! We are back… with our second episode within four days… you will find this one to be more… current… than the previous episode… inasmuch as I haven’t run away to Kelowna during production… YET…
Today is our first in an open-ended series on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)… and we’re taking a deep dive on the latest Journal on Centers for Teaching and Learning! Please click on the link and follow along!
https://youtu.be/4T2KzVKq1N4Woo… meet hoo! #ednontechThis audio will probably withstand your scrutiny… #ednontechSo… for me… the biggest change lately has been going vegan for the first time… and giving up cannabis and alcohol for the first time in forever… so… unless somebody tells me that caffeinated beverages are harmful to animals… I’ve hit my quota… for quitting things…
To that end, I can’t recommend Dr. Melanie Joy’s excellent book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows strongly enough.
This is a case where a close friend recommended something… and I was ready for it! And to the extent that I am capable of influencing anyone else… even just my kids… it will be with the view to try and help mitigate some small amount of animal suffering… because, make no mistake, farmed animals are sentient beings whose natural preference for survival… SHOULD trump our preference for certain flavors and textures of flesh-food…
Inasmuch as I’m trying to be more consistent… I’m seeking greater alignment between my actions and my beliefs… in a whole range of areas…
My kids are happy I’m no longer smoking and drinking. Straight up. And they are… amenable… to the plant-based offerings at their Dad’s house…
Consistency between belief and action is exactly what your local Teaching and Learning Centre can help with… their business is to help you turn your pedagogical ideas into practical strategies and approaches to immediately benefit you and your students…
We heart teaching and learning centres… in case that wasn’t obvious…
From idea to action… #ednontechDoug’s NotesLoving Centres of Teaching & Learning: Reviewing new literatureAll of the notes below are drawn from:
Journal on Centers for Teaching and Learning
Vol 14 (2022), Published March 1, 2023
The CTL Assessing CTL
I am a big fan of the laid out recipe book approach to this endeavour. Not a big fan of this image and I will explain why during the podcast.
We were prompted to write this article for a variety of reasons:
- clear interest among the educational development/CTL community for additional and holistic approaches to center assessment
- need for assessment evidence that can demonstrate relevance and achievements to executive administrators and other stakeholders
- the challenge of interpreting and assigning meaning to common data collected by many CTLs
- the need for center assessment models that are efficient and adaptable to the highly varied expectations and structures of CTLs
- The need for an affirmative response to criticisms of CTL reliance on participation counts and satisfaction surveys
Unit Liaisons, Distributed Responsibility for Visibility, Brief SITE Information Sessions, & Visibility with Administrators.
Linse, R. A., & Hood, L. N. (2022). Building a strategic plan that guides assessment: A case study from a teaching and learning center.Journal on Centers for Teaching and Learning, 14, 4-38.
Centres for Teaching and Learning do this with educationYou had me at narrative! I love this practice they explore.
The collection and analysis of rich, context-driven narratives, capturing multiple voices and experiences, can offer a complementary approach to the way educational developers understand, evidence, and communicate their value and the nature of their work to diverse audiences.
Raffoul, J., Loy, K., Hoessler, C., Kolomitro, K., Ives, C., & Groen, J. (2022). Use of Narratives to Communicate Value in Educational Development. Journal on Centers for Teaching and Learning, 14.
CTL’s can help prevent this from happening.Power User = Hallway Champion
Emergency transition to online learning (ETOL) sounds more academic than pandemic pivot.
CTL staff who worked with power users reported an increase in workload rather than a decrease … CTL staff reported that power users often asked more detailed, in depth questions, while non-power users were more likely to accept the suggestions of the CTL staff member.
CTL staff often had to educate power users on best practice and campus and federal policies during the ETOL. Thus, it appears that the filtered informal learning provided by power users needs additional filtration through the reinforcement of best practices and online policy guidelines.
Lash, P., Russell, L., & Morgan, R. (2022). Power Users and the CTL. Journal on Centers for Teaching and Learning, 14.
Durable and transitory connections… #ednontechAn interesting look at how the pandemic pivot impacted TLCs.
We describe nine metrics considered key indicators of webpage effectiveness when used in combination.
- Traffic
- Users
- Sessions
- Sources
- Medium
- Pages
- Pages per session
- Average session duration
- Bounce rate
TLCs must continue to monitor faculty engagement and their changing support needs, and continue to adjust their approaches to offer in- formation and professional development opportunities as necessary with the end goal of enhancing student experiences and outcomes.
Stoesz, B. (2022). Using Google Analytics to Measure Engagement with a Teaching and Learning Centre During COVID-19. Journal on Centers for Teaching and Learning, 14.
Them were the days… #ednontechI dislike the term “thin slicing”. It usually has negative connotations.
How can educational developers best formatively assess impacts of their services? Standard practices tend to rely on indirect measures, such as counts of participants and feedback surveys.
Hershock, C., Stimson, J., Pottmeyer, L. O., Melville, M. C., Harrell, J., Weiss, E. D., … & Adams, A. (2022). Thin-Sliced Embedded Direct Assessment (T-SEDA). Journal on Centers for Teaching and Learning, 14.
Some slices are thinner than others… #ednontech
Pi Day is just a fake holiday created by math companies to sell more math.
Dr. Doug Reid
Have a thin… OR THICK… slice of #ednontech pie… Word of the PodcastNarrative: I love me a good narrative.
Question of the PodcastIf you could tell post-secondary educators one thing about education, what would it be?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMtj2kSpd5UWe were up all night
Keyed up without fear
All big ideas with nowhere to go
So many plans
No center hold
ednontechPhew!! That was lit! We are grateful you joined us, and can’t wait to do it all again really soon…
Matt’s NotesHello! It is really good to see you! In the latest episode, we discuss the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework as way to help conceptualize, design, and teach in online, hybrid, blended, and other electronically-mediated forms of learning… in fact, this is the first in a four-part series on CoI!
https://youtu.be/G7pMewWYr60Who’s to say exactly WHEN this was recorded? #ednontechAudio content for the ages… #ednontechSo… it’s been a time!
We recorded this episode more than one week ago…
I told Doug that it should be ready the next day.
Then I went to Kelowna for almost a week… pretty much unannounced… and had, hands down, the best solo vacation that I can remember… I’d planned to visit for three days and ended up staying for five… and I came back as a straight-edge vegan…
That’s a story for another time! Many thanks to Doug for his patience… and for the topic!
As much as I’m feeling on the other side of something significant since the last episode… I’m going to refrain from saying too much else… since the whole way I look at and experience the world feels majorly different than the last time I sat down to this…
There are lots of excellent Community of Inquiry resources out there… obviously I’m very attached to the CoI because it informed a major portion of my doctoral thesis… which, for better or for worse, has driven me and my family to places we would never have experienced otherwise…
Professional, personal, geographic, and learning places.
We are all Kamloopsians now.
It takes a community… to party like this! #ednontechDoug’s NotesCoI Framework – Communities of InquiryThe genesis of this framework can be found in the work of John Dewey and is consistent with constructivist approaches to learning in higher education.
Garrison, D. R., & Arbaugh, J. B. (2007). Researching the community of inquiry framework: Review, issues, and future directions. The Internet and higher education, 10(3), 157-172.
Studying social interactions, vis-à-vis social presence and the Community of Inquiry model, has the potential to help further our understanding of how learning occurs in MOOCs.
Stranach, M. (2017). Social Presence in Two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): A Multiple Case Study (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
The CoI framework is one of the most extensively used frameworks in online teaching and learning.
The CoI framework provides guidance for both research in online teaching, and design of online learning experiences.
Castellanos-Reyes, D. (2020). 20 years of the community of inquiry framework. TechTrends, 64(4), 557-560.
“Community,” a word used copiously in educational research, is often used to refer to the cognitive or emotional connections established between physically separated learners.
… there is a void of how to implement instructional strategies aligned with the Community of Inquiry for practitioners.
Fiock, H. (2020). Designing a community of inquiry in online courses. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 21(1), 135-153.
Seneca’s PhilosophyThe happy life is not to be found in pleasures or possessions, wrote Seneca, who was soon to be stripped of both. It is a life spent in pursuit of virtue, of learning what is the right thing to do and then doing it — no matter how many people do otherwise. We may live to old age or die young; we may be healthy or sick, rich or poor: These are matters of fortune beyond our control. We control only our own thoughts and actions, how we conduct ourselves and how we treat others.
Manuel Domínguez Sánchez, The suicide of Seneca (1871) via Wikipedia.Word of the PodcastCommunity
Question of the PodcastWhat aspect of community is most important to you regarding your learning?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkqDK-i-smMI… am… everyday people… #ednontechAnd that was that! We’re gonna be back sooner than later! Take care until then…
Matt’s NotesHey there! It’s great to see you…
Today’s discussion is all about FUN… vis-à-vis… play… technology… students… & learning…
https://youtu.be/563oS2yiiCsFlashes of color… and dogs… and scarves… add to the DELIGHTFUL PLAYFULNESS of this endeavour… #ednontechTrying to make this audio worth your while! #ednontech Here we are… and/or here it is…
I’ll be real. The past week has been tough from a professional standpoint. Like… brutal. In its own moment.
The worst wounds are the self-inflicted kinds… but in actual fact, are there any other?
I would like to offer my sincere gratitude to Marcus Aurelius… and perhaps our many excellent local, regionally-known micro-brewers here in Kamloops…
And yeah… Marcus A. has certainly found me at the right time. I was expecting an insightful read. I was not prepared for how deeply personal and universal his Meditations are. So… here’s a screenshot of the flavor… this is from Book 10… in which he is, quite literally addressing his own soul… and speaking of reputation when one passes away…
Part of me wants to annotate the hell out of this with H5P… #ednontechUh… play and learning! OK… so… as mentioned in the recordings, the process of putting together each week… apart from speaking to whatever all we end up talking about… rewarding in and of itself, to be sure… but the tech process… basic though it may be… the Camtasia cuts, the Unsplash hunts, the rendering of notes into… something a little more… this is becoming a thing I value in ways which I struggle to describe…
Oh… and here’s what I was talking about during the recordings… Web 2.0… while, a bit antiquated now… felt pretty accurate at the time… so, here’s a bit from Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly media… this interesting article from 2005 delineates further on the term…
Again, much appreciation and respect to Doug for his guidance on this endeavor. His planning doc is really a thing to behold…
And, further, to anyone who finds any aspect of this helpful in any way… again, much respect and gratitude.
I think that is a good way to go out for me this week!!
And every time it rains, it rains
Paper from Heaven (shooby dooby)Doug’s NotesFun: Play, Technology, Students, & LearningMany physical educators in Canadian Atlantic provinces are forced to cope with large classes, inadequate facilities and equipment, and reductions in scheduled time for physical education classes.
O’Reilly, E., Tompkins, J., & Gallant, M. (2001). ‘They Ought to Enjoy Physical Activity, You Know?’: Struggling with Fun in Physical Education. Sport, education and society, 6(2), 211-221.
Given the time and opportunities that young children of today have for engaging with computers, it is important that software designers understand the richness of children’s traditional play and use its developmental advantages in their products.
VerenIkIna, I., HerrIngton, J., Peterson, R., & Mantei, J. (2010). Computers and play in early childhood: Affordances and limitations. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 21(1), 139-159.
All video games are not academically effective. There is even disagreement over what constitutes a video game.
Siegle, D. (2015). Technology: Learning can be fun and games. Gifted Child Today, 38(3), 192-197.
But is it educational?? #ednontechThe research has found that fun and enjoyment does play a role in adult learning programs… Learners have identified a number of elements that are part of their experience of fun and enjoyment: the activities they undertake, the process established by the teachers, interacting with others, humour, achieving, their emotions, their well-being and personal benefits.
Lucardie, D. (2014). The impact of fun and enjoyment on adult’s learning. Procedia-Social and behavioral sciences, 142, 439-446.
Here come the LMS vendors… #ednontech
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on – because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.
Any day with Noam Chomsky is indeed a good day… #ednontech
Word of the PodcastFun
Question of the PodcastHow can we get more fun in education for everyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PKRUdBROK8And she doesn’t get the jokes told by late night talk show hosts… But for some reason she laughs anyway… #ednontechHey, that’s the end of this one somehow!! As always… a major pleasure! Until next time…
Matt’s NotesHappy February long weekend! It’s been a couple of weeks since our last episode… and we’re glad you’re here with us! In this outing, we dial things back… all the way back… to the notion of veritas… truth… or reality… in education!
https://youtu.be/NjYa6jrWhxsOur first principles are…. akin to rectangular widgets… #ednontechOf all the things we have, these are the best ones available at this exact moment in time… #ednontechSo… it’s Sunday of a long weekend… we recorded the show yesterday afternoon… and after some production… I went to bed and didn’t get up for anything other than the bathroom or a glass of water… for more than fifteen hours! It was rejuvenating in its own way… as I get older, I like to think I am getting better at reading my body… and listening to it… and sleep, particularly as I am afflicted with SEVERE… and I mean REALLY severe…. sleep apnea… is a precious commodity… and with the CPAP machine… helping ensure I get the right amount of oxygen to my brain… so I am here to tell you about the BENEFITS… of a properly oxygenated brain…
My first principles as I grow older including giving my mind and body what they need to carry out their roles…
How far into the weeds will I go here?
As mentioned in the recordings, I’m utterly enthralled with Meditations by Marcus Aurelius… it’s one of a handful of books that I can say without exaggeration… has changed not just how I look at literature… but how I look at the world…
I hope you all have your own versions of these books! If you’d like to share some titles that have fundamentally changed you, leave a comment!
Thanks as ever to Doug for the great topic and great conversation. At this point, it’s hard for me to imagine more than a few weeks going by without some #ednontech…
Each person’s individual life… including those of Roman Emperors… a fleck of foam on the ocean… #ednontechDoug’s NotesVeritas: Dealing with reality in educationInitially, the schools in this country were established to transmit beliefs conducive to right conduct and successful “industry”.
Walsh, D., & Paul, R. W. (1986). The Goal of Critical Thinking: from Educational Ideal to Educational Reality.
Two areas in which the educational crisis was most apparent were standards in the basic subjects and the incoherent character of the curriculum. The problem of standards was evidenced in the number of adolescents leaving school without basic literacy, despite the vast sums spent on education and despite 10 or more years of formal schooling. A significant proportion of students entering technical colleges and even universities lacked basic skills in expression and comprehension. They were unable to speak well, to write clearly, to read quickly and to understand what they read.
Barcan, A. (1993). Sociological theory and educational reality: Education and society in Australia since 1949. UNSW Press.
… apart from teachers’ deprofessionalization, the analysed narrations reveal a decreased status of the learner and of learners’ developmental needs (teachers seem to pay more attention to e.g. implementing the core curriculum and less to the interests and cognitive needs of students).
… Teachers focused on preparing learners for solving tests also neglect the activity aimed at developing learners’ individual passions and interests at school.
Zalewska-Bujak, M. (2023). Teachers’ strategies for professional activities in the conditions of neoliberal educational reality. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (JCEPS), 20(3).
… there is a significant share of people, especially at a young age, for whom digitalization is a key moment in their lives. At the same time, there are social groups, such as the older population, illiterate, ethnic minorities, who remain excluded from the digitalization process.
… it is necessary to restructure the approaches to teaching and education, as well as the ways in which the teaching process is organized.
Manov, B., Lendzhova, V., & Milenkova, V. (2022). Digital Aspects of Modern Society and Education Realities. South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics, 11-21.
Rogue wave… representation, reality, or other? #ednontech“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”
– Alvin Toffler
A marvel of automation… and educational processes… #ednontech“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” – Albert Einstein
Word of the Podcast:Reality: Not virtual, just actual reality
Question of the Podcast:Is the curriculum & teaching in school keeping up with reality?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TLWqn82J4Here we go, yo… Here we go, yo… So what’s so what’s so what’s the scenario? #ednontechThanks for checking in this Feb weekend!! We appreciate you & look forward to when next we meet again…
Matt’s NotesKindest greetings, and welcome to Episode 17 of the EnT… wherein we go pretty deep on a topic Doug and I are increasingly interested in… namely… unlearning!
https://youtu.be/J2lXweDlgysWho unlearns better than this crowd?? #ednontechWe got audio! We got video! We got #ednontech! I’ll admit, Doug’s topic got to me this week! The “how tough across our lives?” part really jumped at me, especially during the recording…
Apologies for going into “Dear Diary” mode at some points in the recording… connecting unlearning to recent, lived personal experience has the potential to make you realize… there’s always more work to do! I’ll take that a step further and say that that notion of “always more to do” has been a guiding principle in my life for as long as I can remember… for better or for worse…
As always, I appreciate the opportunity to have these conversations with Doug… and with you! Whoever You are right now, we appreciate You!
Aw geez… what else? I’ve thoroughly enjoyed LA punk writer Jim Ruland’s recent books on SST Records… and Bad Religion… I have another of his on the way… co-writing Circle Jerks’ frontman Keith Morris’s biography… and furthermore I’ve had the Portable Henry Rollins arrive not that long ago… with Get in the Van on the way…
I’m trying to think of what else to fill this out? In my mind, I am flashing forward to later in the weekend… wherein we’re recording the Episode 4.0 of Today New Brunswick, Tomorrow the World… and I have some actual paid academic work that’s due “by Monday morning”… which is about all I feel like disclosing on that subject for right now! Further details as warranted…
Thanks for checking out the EnT, in whatever format! Please comment or email! We legit thrive on the contact…
Doug’s NotesUnlearning – How tough is this across our lives?I believe this so much. I unlearn as much as I can everyday.The shift from ‘sage on the stage’ to ‘guide on the side’, while it has served an important function in shifting the focus from the teacher to the learner, does not capture the fullness of the implications of this shift. We have been hearing about the importance of ‘lifelong learning’ for some time now in formal education. If, as Bauman asserts, ‘unlearning’ will be as important to social success in the 21st millennium as learning has been in the 20th millennium, then the habit of ‘lifelong learning’ will need radical re-thinking in terms of the nature and purposes of pedagogical work. Put simply, we will need to see a further shift from sage-on-the-stage and guide-on-the-side to meddler-in-the-middle.
McWilliam, E. (2008). Unlearning how to teach. Innovations in education and teaching international, 45(3), 263-269.
… this process involves both learning new knowledge, questions, and practices, and, at the same time, unlearning some long-held ideas, beliefs, and practices, which are often difficult to uproot.
Cochran-Smith, M. (2003). Learning and unlearning: The education of teacher educators. Teaching and teacher education, 19(1), 5-28.
In fact, to begin to make a case for unlearning is to reject the assumption that somehow, unlearning will become a new model for education.
Baldacchino, J. (2013). Willed forgetfulness: The arts, education and the case for unlearning. Studies in philosophy and education, 32, 415-430.
Unlearning calls on us to shake things up, to shake it off, to philosophize with a hammer, to take a leap of faith into the abyss of nonknowledge; it calls on us to let go, to fail, to fail again, for better or for worse. It calls on us to take the risk that encounters with learning ought also to be unacknowledged, unknowable, unassimilable. It calls on us to understand that what we call learning often does not have a why, a plan or an agenda, and essentially it calls on us to question why this is the case, or better, why this takes place.
Dunne, É., & Seery, A. (2016). The pedagogics of unlearning (p. 194). punctum books.
Word of the Podcast:Unlearn
Question of the Podcast:How do you make the decision to unlearn and change what you are doing?
Dr. Doug and Dr. Matt both heartily agree… #ednontechWe are much obliged to you for visiting! We appreciate you, and look forward to seeing you again!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1IiPkQa2iYSwimming upstream, I maintain against the grain… #ednontech
Matt’s NotesHey there! Happy Sunday… or whenever it is, wherever you are! We’re pleased as punch you’re taking an interest in Episode 16 where we are all about… Assessment and, to a lesser degree, Evaluation.
https://youtu.be/f_jOY1Ls6YgAll the #ednontech we can fit into a single rectangular widget…The sounds… not just the sights… of #ednontechWe covered lots of terrain on this episode. Apologies for any academic or rhetorical slips…
- I wanted to clarify that Dr. Greg Graffin… singer for popular American punk band Bad Religion… completed his Ph.D in Zoology… as opposed to Anthropology which I believe I said in the recording…
- Dr. Graffin has lectured at UCLA and Cornell University… while writing a number of books and articles in his area… and touring the world with Bad Religion.
- And… just because I found this really touching and funny…. here’s Dr. Graffin’s “Rate My Professors” page… with the most recent rating being for the fall 2019 semester… spoiler alert: he’s popular!
Anyway! My rabbit holes are abundantly on display in both the recordings… see the end of the video for references.
I was very taken with the “unlearning” path we went down… and hopefully will be revisiting in coming episodes.
Doug’s NotesOne of the best results of assessment in post secondary learning.Assessment – Why are we doing this to people?The rise of the measurement culture in education has had a profound impact on educational practice, from the highest levels of educational policy at national and supra-national level down to the practices of local schools and teachers.
Biesta, G. (2009). Good education in an age of measurement: On the need to reconnect with the question of purpose in education. Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability (formerly: Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education), 21, 33-46.
I believe this so much. I unlearn as much as I can everydayIn very truth, we have become an ‘assessment society’, as wedded to our belief in the power of numbers, grades, targets and league tables to deliver quality and accountability, equality and defensibility as we are to modernism itself. History will readily dub the 1990s when this journal was born—as well as the early years of the new millennium—‘the assessment era’, when belief in the power of assessment to provide a rational, efficient and publicly acceptable mechanism of judgement and control reached its high point.
Broadfoot, P., & Black, P. (2004). Redefining assessment? The first ten years of assessment in education. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 11(1), 7-26.
This needs to change.The intensification of measurement leads to forms of authorization and endorsement of certain outcomes, people, actions, systems, and practices, thus marking out what is claimed to be truthful. It also involves increasing automation, which shapes human agency and decision-making – automated systems of computation are taken as objective, legitimate, fair, neutral and impartial, and impact on human judgement.
Williamson, B., Bayne, S., & Shay, S. (2020). The datafication of teaching in Higher Education: critical issues and perspectives. Teaching in Higher Education, 25(4), 351-365.
My attitudes much of the time, especially when I am in a meeting.
Word of the podcast:Datafication
Question of the podcast:Is more evaluation leading to better education, or does it just better record of what is being “covered” in class?
As an educator, I feel this image.Here is a useful test for everyone that does not get used much.Thanks so much for visiting today! We hope you will join us again soon!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqSo1q2SBvsWe need an instrument… To take a measurement…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIgVCU19pjgDon’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky… #ednontechMatt’s NotesIt’s midway through January, and somehow we are at Episode number fifteen! We are seriously glad you’re joining us!
https://youtu.be/l2xFh-5WW8oAnd then I was like… “Seriously, man”… and he was like “Seriously, man?”… and I was like, “Man, seriously…” #ednontechEdnontech audio: Now with fewer calories… #ednontechA few points before this post goes out the door!
- The word I was trying for during the recording was Pollyanna (noun): a person characterized by irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything.
- My desktop computer’s hard drive was fried as a result of a power surge in my apartment… the Geek Squad team member who restored the computer for me provided me a recovery thumb drive… in case this happens again… which it might…
- Hence the delay in certain aspects of getting this podcast ready… as well as Today New Brunswick, Tomorrow the World… not that you’d necessarily notice!
- I’ve been moved lately by both Freire’s Pedagogy of the Heart and Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records. The former uses metaphor and allegory to tap into teaching and learning as a necessarily political act; the latter describes how a fiercely independent punk band and their record label grew from a small mail order operation to a multi-pronged… corporate entity… changing the course of music within fewer than ten years… this is a case where my interest in education overlaps nicely with my interest in punk and alternative music… and the independent arts, generally…
- As far as the topic of the day… AI in education… I have had very little exposure up until now… but was sufficiently compelled by many of Doug’s points… that this is an area I will have to return to… hopefully on this show…
As ever, we are grateful to you for checking out this EnT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jDpI5-NzXIOld rocking chair’s gonna get me… #ednontechDoug’s NotesAI & Education: The sky is falling, the sky is falling!Early Works 1970-1982 SCHOLAR, SOPHIE, GUIDON, MYCIN
During the first phase of AI in Education, research was limited to building illustrations that showed ideas at work on toy domains.
Woolf, B. (1991). AI in Education. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Department of Computer and Information Science.
Using AI technology, learning analytics are purported to optimize the efficiency of and responsiveness to student learning experiences and, in doing so, to address inequities in formal and informal education.
Dixon-Román, E., Nichols, T. P., & Nyame-Mensah, A. (2020). The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies. Learning, Media and Technology, 45(3), 236-250.
… the development of technologies and programmes that fully support pedagogical ventures should become an imperative, because this will lead to general improvements in education. It is also understood that the technologisation of education will support students who often feel disadvantaged by the traditional educational system, improving their performances through access to computers and internet.
Guilherme, A. (2019). AI and education: the importance of teacher and student relations. AI & society, 34(1), 47-54.
Timely messages… FROM THE FUTURE… #ednontech… we find no detectable effect of the school VM ban on the average diet of French secondary school children, at least in its first two years of application.
Capacci, S., Mazzocchi, M., & Shankar, B. (2018). Breaking habits: the effect of the French vending machine ban on school snacking and sugar intakes. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 37(1), 88-111.
And now for the non-academic material…AcademicsSemantic Scholar: A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature.
A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay.
SearchChatGPT for Google: ChatGPT response alongside search engine results.
The AI search engine you control.
NYC Bans Students and Teachers from Using ChatGPT
Visual ArtAI-Generated Artwork Wins Contest and Sparks Fierce Online Debate
Artist Recreates His Own Work With an AI Art Generator
Elsewhere in the media…The College Essay Is Dead
Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks
Microsoft’s new VALL-EI AI can clone your voice from a three-second audio clip.
CNET Has Been Quietly Publishing AI-Written Articles for Months
Will the ban on AI accomplish anything?A partial list of things banned from schools:
- AI (Artificial Intelligence)
- Bart Simpsons merchandise
- Pokémon cards
- Books: Many many links for this one…
- Mobile phones & UGGs
- Gel Pens
- Calculators
- Clothes – Spaghetti strap shirts, Yoga pants, Skirts & shorts, bunny hugs
- Social Media
- Fidget Spinners
- Pogs
- Red Ink
- Backpacks
- Sugary snacks Vending Machines (VM)
Word of the podcast:technologisation
Question of the podcast:Does AI send education down a problematic path?
Please respond below in the comments!
There’s problematic… and then there’s problem-based learning (PBL) #ednontechWe list you among the awesome people! Thanks for visiting, and see you again in a week or so!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFa462PofmALife is bad! Gloom and misery everywhere! But we keep on educating anyway! #ednontech
We appreciate the yellow stuff as much as anybody! #ednontechMatt’s NotesWe’ve made it to the end of the first week of 2023! Congratulations to you! And to us as well…
https://youtu.be/flvDiQKlfU0#Ednontech pro tip: Mirth is contagious… We will confirm the presence of this audio on the various pod thingys… at our leisure… #ednontechDo you like the MinimalistBlogger theme on this site? I went so far as to buy the Premium theme… mainly because I’ve never tried such a thing, more than to access the Premium features per se… and for the “Forever” subscription for Theme Updates… all in all, about $70 US… it takes the form of a plugin which is uploaded to WP after paying for the theme…
“Funny” story: one of the Premium features is “SuperbThemes Typography” which requires the Easy Google Fonts plugin in order to work… so when I added the Premium theme, the theme overwrote the Google Fonts plugin which I had already added… not such a big deal? Perhaps… except that after much trial and error, I had added Zen Antique as the predominant font family across the site… which is included in Google Fonts… but not in Easy Google Fonts… so… I disabled the Easy Google Fonts plugin… went back into the customizer… went into the Google Fonts plugin… and re-established Zen Antique across all areas of the site…
This is a case where… apart from the lifetime updates… and being able to customize the copyright message on the footer… there aren’t really any Premium features which are needed for this… MINIMALIST theme…
All in all, a learning experience! If there are any features which you feel like this site could use… or if you have any hot WordPress tips, tricks, or recommendations… feel free to drop a comment below this post!
Finally… at Doug’s suggestion… given that we now have a potentially much wider audience for the audio for this pod… I’ve prepared two different versions… the video is pretty much as we’ve been doing since the beginning… however the audio is more concise with the intro and outro… by next episode, I expect we’ll have what will be recurring theme music for the audio version… and perhaps something of a “canned intro” in place… so the audio only audience will be able to make sense of what’s going on a bit better… particularly for those joining us for the first time…
OK… more tech details here than I necessarily intended! Thanks as always, Doug for the compelling topic… and thanks to Antonia Darder for her absolutely lit Introduction to Paulo Friere’s The Pedagogy of the Heart (2021)… I believe in all sincerity that anyone involved in an ed tech role would do well to read Darder’s intro… as well as the rest of the book!
Abundantly, bountifully, plentifully yours…
Money… That’s what we want! #ednontechDoug’s NotesThe pedagogy of abundance: How is technology impacting this concept?The work of the professor becomes consequential only as it is understood by others. Yet, today, teaching is often viewed as a routine function, tacked on.
Boyer, E. L. (1990). Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate. Princeton University Press, 3175 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648.
The perils of classroom clutter on your students’ creativity. Now imagine most computer hard drives…An instructivist pedagogy then can be seen as a direct consequence of the demands of scarcity.
The scale and range of learning related content at least raises the question of whether we have developed the appropriate teaching and learning approaches to make best use of it.
Weller, M. (2011). A pedagogy of abundance. Revista española de pedagogía, 223-235.
It’s helpful to observe the differences… while recognizing that most experiences will fall somewhere between the two columns…Digital curation is an active process whereby content or artifacts or both are purposely selected to be preserved for future access. In the digital environment, additional elements can be leveraged, such as the inclusion of social media to disseminate collected content, the ability for other users to suggest content or leave comments and the critical evaluation and selection of aggregated content.
Ungerer, L. M. (2016). Digital curation as a core competency in current learning and literacy: A higher education perspective. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 17(5).
I can practically smell these magazines… #ednontechThere is a danger in narrowly viewing learning as the acquisition of resources…
Our vision of pedagogies of abundance extends beyond traditional conception of open access to distance learning to encapsulate the idea of learning fluidly across different contexts of life, from formal education, to workplace learning to interest-based learning
Littlejohn, A., & McGill, L. (2016). Ecologies of open resources and pedagogies of abundance. In The Future of Ubiquitous Learning (pp. 115-130). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Is it any wonder he’s the Captain? #ednontechWord of the podcastA post knowledge economy
Question of the podcastHas abundance helped or hindered you as you have learned?
Thanks for checking out the EnT! If you like what we’re doing… or, especially if you don’t… leave a comment below! We hope your 2023 has been great so far…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmFh9NiMoZcI’m having a hard time… with such obvious things… #ednontech
You do you… and we’ll do we!! #ednontechMatt’s NotesHey there! If this looks different… thank you for visiting more than once! It is different!!
https://youtu.be/I1BtQGfbpF0I… will be with you….again… #ednontechAudio ~~coming soon~~ now available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts… we think! #ednontechNow… a lot went into changing the theme… and getting the metadata just so in order to get it listed on the “traditional” podcast purveyors… much of which was accomplished with the Blubrry PowerPress plugin for WordPress… with over 50,000 downloads and updates as recent as three weeks ago… I feel good about adding it to this site… and the site for the music podcast as well! In fact, everything I do to improve the tech for this podcast has immediate benefits for Today New Brunswick, Tomorrow the World… which makes me feel good… from an instructional design standpoint…
My reading lately has been both broad and shallow… my final Readcember action was to NEARLY finish Lives of the Stoics… and a few other odds and ends! One of the tangible benefits of this show is… for me… feeling like I need to be read up to a certain degree…
In the coming week there will be a few more changes around here! I still want to tweak the WordPress, and ensure that the podcasting purveyors are rendering the show as faithfully as possible… after which, we can safely start looking at how we can change the audio and video recordings… the direction and the content and the formatting… to the optimal advantage for these sharing services…
Wishing you a safe, calm, and joyous 2023!
Where does a new idea begin? In the fragments of other ideas? These and other serious questions… are for another time! #ednontechDoug’s NotesNew Years’ Eve Special: Derelict, Lagan, Jetsam, & FlotsamWhat we threw overboard, abandoned, noted to address, and addressed in 2022
Derelict – goods sank to the bottom and abandoned
Lagan – goods sank to the bottom and tethered by a marker to be potentially recovered
Jetsam – goods jettisoned and abandoned
Flotsam – goods floating on the surface and may be reclaimed
And how old are we?There is a need to reframe the way lifelong learning via the Internet is conceptualised and supported, to account for a more personal and democratic view, where individuals are supported to learn things that matter to them, and connects individuals with their local communities to support social change.
Eynon, R., & Malmberg, L. E. (2021). Lifelong learning and the Internet: Who benefits most from learning online?. British Journal of Educational Technology, 52(2), 569-583.
The word “traditional” is like the term “the real world”. I hate both of them.Digital pedagogy can use different synchronous and asynchronous EdTech tools to deliver educational content, to communicate and engage in learning among learners, parents, and teachers. There is a need for teachers to be equipped with the know-how related to digital pedagogy to take advantage of the benefits of EdTech, as replicating traditional pedagogies in EdTech needs to be questioned
Crompton, H., Burke, D., Jordan, K., & Wilson, S. (2021). Support provided for K-12 teachers teaching remotely with technology during emergencies: A systematic review. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 0(0), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2021.1899877
“No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education.”
John Carolus S. J.
Breaking it down, slowly… for learning purposes! #ednontechOver the last 15 years, we have witnessed a significant re-appropriation of media technologies from the past, which has attracted both scholarly and popular interest… including terms such as:
retromedia (Roy, 2014) or retrotechnologies (Sarpong et al., 2016)
Magaudda, P., & Minniti, S. (2019). Retromedia-in-practice: A practice theory approach for rethinking old and new media technologies. Convergence, 25(4), 673-693.
What some Ai graphics software and pictures of myself looked like when I tried to make an ENT graphic (after many many tries). Both of these could be me as a Douglas Fir Ent.
We still need a logo and graphic for this podcast…
Word of the podcast:
New Years’ Eve & Happy New Year
Question of the podcast:
What Derelict, Lagan, Jetsam, & Flotsam would the audience like us to address in more detail in a future podcast?
Thank you so much for visiting! We are wishing you at least 364 more days of awesomeness ahead!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Y5J0ka4_kUh huh… shattered.,.. I’m in tatters! #ednontech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBcdt6DsLQAWe are all about the lifelong learning here at the #ednontechpodcastMatt’s NotesHey there! We are well and truly into the holidays… Doug and I both hope you are having a calm, safe, peaceful few weeks… if that’s what you want!
https://youtu.be/UjTAUS-PWGIBringing you all the #ednontech you can shake a stick at…Here’s wishing you a suitably #nontech holiday… We were talking pedagogy of abundance towards the end of Episode 11… and, while there are many people who have been involved in developing this concept… Dave Cormier is the person who I was thinking of… as speaking to it most publicly. I’m not going to pretend to give Dave any kind of introduction… except that he’s one of the most interesting people in our #edtech field… and a lot of my doctoral work references his work at UPEI (along with other colleagues). Here are a couple of videos so that I can close a couple of tabs!
https://youtu.be/16uy7zAnLfkThis is very good stuff…https://youtu.be/ROkbPHyb1D0Dave has been involved in online teaching and learning for a really long time… Rita Kop has spoken to a pedagogy of abundance… as “far back” as 2011…
I’ve done more reading from the Ignaces’ book… which helped inform some of our discussions in this episode…
There’s a more substantive set of notes lurking in the background of these ones… but this is the tip of the er… digital iceberg*… in terms of all the small acts of communication, synthesis, and creation that led to this specific manifestation vis-à-vis the WordPress site…
*”Digital iceberg”… a new metaphor for ed tech… or not??
As mentioned several times in the episode, I’m really enjoying Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius… it’s reader-friendly, and helps satisfy my inner philosophy minor… and my latent but long-standing interest in ancient histories… and also helps me make sense of my… “self-employed”, single dad, post-academic, post-divorce actions and personhood…
I’ll give the final word in these notes today to Samuel Beckett. Wishing you all a warm, safe, happy, and not unduly absurd holiday season…
Matt’s next tattoo?? #ednontechDoug’s NotesLifelong learning: Does technology help, hinder, or both? My bias: I am a lifelong learner & I have no plans to stopA question similar to the Bajner article.Today, technology is not only a tool, but also a resource for accessing information that further enables learning. New opportunities and ways to integrate technology into the learning process are being created every day.
Laal, M. (2011). Impact of Technology on lifelong learning. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 28, 439-443.
And I am moving to the right…#EmTechMOOC revolves around the cornerstone of lifelong learning and the 4Cs of 21st Century Skills: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, and Critical Thinking.
Sullivan, R., Fulcher-Rood, K., Kruger, J., Sipley, G., & van Putten, C. (2019). Emerging technologies for lifelong learning and success: A MOOC for everyone. Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 47(3), 318-336.
Sometimes the hindrances are just too much.The AUSMT course was designed as a result of discussions and previous trials of the authors’ fields of research which include online education, authentic professional development, collaboration, and effective multimedia design.
Additionally the course included scaffolding activities to support novice users of social media tools and to encourage experienced users of the tools to contribute with their expertise.
Ostashewski, N., & Reid, D. (2012). Delivering a MOOC using a social networking site: The SMOOC design model. In Proceedings of the IADIS international conference on internet technologies and society (ITS 2012) (pp. 217-222). IADIS Press.
We argue that technology, data, and evolving AI applications affect how humans enact and experience life and work, changing the context for learning.
… the focus on learning to adapt and develop new skills, identify opportunities for change, and be ready to modify stable trajectories of life and work is as critical as ever. Lifelong learning (LLL), a term carrying a range of meanings, had traditionally been used to refer to processes and systems supporting learning throughout adulthood and work life.
Poquet, O., & De Laat, M. (2021). Developing capabilities: Lifelong learning in the age of AI. British Journal of Educational Technology, 52(4), 1695-1708.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5CMRrVAiyYIn my life… long learning…. … a shift in rhetoric from LLL to generational learning is also needed in order to eliminate ‘doublespeak’ and satisfy the needs of today’s generations who have arguably been brought up with a utilitarian view of education and high economic expectations.
The contradictory nature of lifelong learning: Learn to live or live to learn
Bajner, M. (2019). Lifelong learning redefined: from sustainability to generational learning. Andragoška spoznanja, 25(3), 35-45.
https://youtu.be/Zuvgx8iYB2IYou were everything and more… In my life… Thanks so much for checking in! We are grateful for your interests in our efforts thus far, humble though they are… Episode 13 will be landing just before NYE!
Imagine an un-Titanic world, if you will… We are curating these and other pithy #ednontech bon mots…Matt’s NotesHello, good evening and/or morning and/or whenever you happen to be reading this! As ever, Doug and I are grateful that you’ve chosen to spend some time here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hagI1jI6-K8And then he was like… and then she was like… #noreally #ednontechAudio consumption may produce sensations such as observing fewer earbuds, headphones, sweaters, and scarves…So… in terms of the tabs I was referring to during the recording… please find a bit of a sampler herein… trusting that each link is the result of rabbithole upon rabbithole…
Athabasca’s International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL) always has great stuff… this is something where… the title of the piece seemed compelling… Book Review: An Introduction to Open Education… and even as Michael Paskevicius, University of Victoria, writes a really interesting, compelling review of this book… Dr. Paskevicius provides a link to the book… i.e., free to read… through Edtechbooks.org… which I’m encountering just for the first time… it seems, at first glance, like a pretty well-stocked repository… with resources for K-12 and post-secondary educators…
Matt IRL: Great! This means I can close these tabs… and come back to this convenient EDUCATIONAL post if so desiring or requiring in the future…
Also… I was meant to speak to this essay in a Hybrid Pedagogy publication during my final weeks at TRU… it failed to transpire… so… in the interest of “tidying up” at the end of what has truly been a transformative year… for me, anyway… the essay is called “Confessions of a Subversive Student“. And it’s very interesting and well-written. And there is nothing in the essay which remotely qualifies as subversive. Am I missing something? But to ask that question sounds like a grievance, right? I have no grievance against this. It’s worth checking out! As is just about anything else those folks put out…
There’s this great longish read in a recent Saturday edition of the Toronto Star by Andy Lamey…
Tinder fatigue, the endless Netflix scroll, and the real reason online life is exhaustingAndy Lamey on behalf of all of us…
Which led to a new-to-me Canadian poet named Jason Guriel who I feel is probably pretty good…
Is anyone still there? So… ya… still a few tabs open… but that’ll way more than likely do it for now…
Doug’s NotesHow educators can feel with the amount of information and objects they have access to now.Educators as Curators: How did we get to this?My bias: I am a collector. I have felt the need to collect as long as I can remember.
Matt inadvertently sent me down a rabbit hole of google fonts and it triggered my history of collecting things both as an educator and a person in general.
This study highlighted art educators and the roles they have traditionally been seen to hold. Collector is prominent among these roles.
“In my career in art education, one of my most important roles has been that of…Collector”
Ritenbaugh, T. D. (1989). Artist, teacher, scholar, organizational leader, administrator, collector: Art educators’ beliefs about roles and status. The Pennsylvania State University.
I don’t like when older people tell ’em about how easy I have it, but I do like this image.“It’s now ridiculously easy . . . to connect, organize, share, collaborate, and publish with anybody to anybody in the world.”
…“we have to move from knowledgeable – that is just knowing a bunch of stuff—to being actually knowledge-able; that’s being able to find, sort, analyze, criticize, and ultimately create new information and knowledge.”
John Waters, “Higher Education and the New Media Reality,” Campus Technology (July 28, 2011), http://campustechnology .com/articles/2011/07/28/higher-education-and-the-new-media -reality.aspx
The educational role of librarians is more essential today than at any other period in the profession’s long history. The growing torrent of digital information will challenge educators’ ability to teach the appropriate skills and knowledge that will allow students to become and stay “knowledge-able.”
Shank, J. D., Bell, S., & Zabel, D. (2011). Blended librarianship:[Re] envisioning the role of librarian as educator in the digital information age. Reference and User Services Quarterly, 51(2), 105-110.
Curator (lat. Curator – guardian, guardian) – a person who is charged with monitoring, supervising the progress of a particular work or series of works [6-9]. And we can add that the creation of a team. But curatoring is not only a process of education, but also the possibility of live communication between teachers and students, which leads to the self-development of both parties.
Sobirova, D. U., Azimov, A. T., & Alimova, D. K. (2019). The role of the curator in higher Education university. European Journal of Research and Reflection in Educational Sciences Vol, 7(3)
Taken by Doug… in the Republic of Ireland…This curated list of resources collates interventions that effectively deploy education technology in settings of fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV). … These resources were selected with the intention to include practical recommendations on technology-enabled interventions.
the need for national education strategies to be underpinned by a focus on enhancing literacy. Regarding EdTech specifically, the overwhelming consensus is that technology is a tool which can be used to support, facilitate and enable good teaching and quality learning (Dahya, 2016). However, technology is only one of many inputs needed to lead to sustained improvements in learning outcomes.
This brief explores how EdTech, and education programmes more widely, can be leveraged to support distance and alternative learning opportunities that are urgently needed.
Koomar, S., Moss Coflan, C., & Kaye, T. (2020). Using EdTech in settings of fragility, conflict and violence: A curated resource list (No. 11). EdTech Hub.
A teaser for a later episode…Thanks for visiting! We hope you and everyone around you have a great, restful holidays & New Year. We will be landing one more episode in 2022… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v-wPOk82toThere’s rows and rows of houses… with windows painted blue… with the light from the TV… running parallel to you…
This time around we’re going underground… #ednontechMatt’s NotesI was really inspired by Doug’s choice of topic today… maybe because, according to him… I chose it… a couple (few)(???) episodes ago… I will defer to my senior colleague on this…
https://youtu.be/Sgpl9dmB5zQAudio format: Now with fewer scarves and sweaters…In lieu of trying to talk substantively about any one thing, I found myself grazing these past few days… in and around TUMULTUOUS BUT ULTIMATELY VERY GOOD PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES…
- I am no longer UN-employed… I am SELF-employed… 506 Consulting Ltd, has been… truthfully… in my mind longer than I’d care to admit… once it became clear my last position was going to be tough to hold onto… you might start thinking… “how to account for this time on my CV??” and so, Friends, I am now “a Consultant”… soon to be a legit, legally incorporated business operating in the province of British Columbia…
- I’ve been looking at the photographs in Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws. This was, partially, a function of being short on time this week… but… I look at these pictures, these photographs, these documents… of what was… and all the futures both lived and possible… the living personhood of some ancestors and elders… an entire way of life both explicit and implied… it’s to be taken somewhere else while wholly remaining where we are right now…
- I spent a lot of time looking at Google Fonts today… I’ve gone there for the Metal Mania font we use at the music podcast… and the font for my new consulting venture is… Zen Antiqua Soft… which… in all honest sincerity… completely conveys the vibe I’m after with said venture…
- I’m proud (weirdly) to say that I’m now a paid member of Unsplash Plus!
- I spent a pretty good amount of time with the Calculator Soup Roman Numeral Converter… V_VI or DVI… this may or may not be due to my recent, admittedly weird, interest in Stoicism… via Amazon Kindle…
- The Hybrid Pedagogy folks remain very cool…
- Internationally-renowned Secwepemc poet, researcher, and educator Garry Gottfriedson will be launching his new book Bent Back Tongue at TRU this Wednesday evening…
- Doug sent me a link to R/podcasts… which I haven’t actually looked at yet… but is probably cool!
There was probably more… but that’s all I’ve got right now… Thanks as always, Doug, for the compelling topic…
Great Moments in Going Underground, parts I-III (GIF’s)Doug’s NotesIs education a niche media subculture?We seem to get stuck teaching literacies with each cultural technology effect that comes along.
First photograph ever. How would someone teach that to people back in the day?‘Literacy is a fundamental human right and the foundation for lifelong learning. It is fully essential to social and human development in its ability to transform lives. For individuals, families, and societies alike, it is an instrument of empowerment to improve one’s health, one’s income, and one’s relationship with the world.’
UNESCO, 2016
Imagine teaching this without a context.We would like to suggest that the term ‘dynamic literacies’ is one way to think about an inclusive, umbrella term which is responsive and inclusive enough to describe the changing nature of meaningmaking in the context of digital media and culture. ‘Dynamic literacies’, is, for us, a term which brings together the shifting and contested versions of literacies.
‘Dynamic literacies’, a key concern of this book is the changing nature of teaching and learning in response to the widespread consumption and production of digital media texts and artefacts in wider culture. We recognise, in turn, that this has a great deal to do with how we define ‘literacy’ with ‘ because literacy is in some senses in a symbiotic relationship pedagogy’; our shared understanding of what it means to be literate determines not only what we learn but how we learn and even what it means to be a learner.
Potter, J., & McDougall, J. (2017). Digital media, culture and education: Theorising third space literacies (pp. 1-205). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Participatory learning paradigmThe introduction of each new medium (radio, film, television, and finally the internet) during the 20th century has been accompanied by anxiety about its imagined effect on less educated, “vunerable” social groups.
Sefton-Green, J. (2006). Chapter 8 Youth, Technology, and Media Cultures. Review of research in education, 30(1), 279-306.
As educators, we would have to explain this….
Educators must work together to ensure that all young Americans have access to the skills and experiences needed to become full participants, can articulate their understanding of how media shapes perceptions, and are socialized into the emerging ethical standards that should shape their practices as media makers and participants in online communities.
Schools as institutions have been slow to react to the emergence of this new participatory culture
Transmedia navigation The ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities.
Jenkins, H. (2009). Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: Media education for the 21st century (p. 145). The MIT Press.
We look forward to seeing you next time… to be continued… even during the Holidays!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxcDTUMLQJIYou’ve been living underground… Eating from a can… You’ve been running away from what you don’t understand… #ednontech
It’s not like we planned this per se… #ednontechMatt’s notesGood evening! It is evening for both Doug and I right now… I hope you’re doing well, and if you’re a student or faculty or staff or anyone else involved in higher ed… that the end of the semester is treating you well. In that spirit, sort of, we bring you an episode devoted to something that Matt has historically not been awesome at…
It’s great when there’s always things to get better at! Podcasting, for instance…
https://youtu.be/TPnyIfLWtHcJust wait until we sell the audio book rights…I’m grateful for the chance to think about this topic this week…
The work-life balance has been a challenge for me over the years! And these days, it’s a different kind of challenge.
As I write this, the air outside is clear and cold. I’m in a modest apartment in a modest part of town. Every day lately I murmur a prayer of gratitude to the universe for my boys… our health… the roof over our heads…
Note: This is Matt 16 hours after the preceding was written… Camtasia was challenging this week for some reason… and he’s still not totally happy with it…*
The Ignace’s book resides next to my desk. You have to go past it if you go in or out of the apartment. It has two pens propped inside of it… lots of dogearing and marginalia…
I consider it a reference work that I will continue to dip into… for as long as I am in Kamloops… and probably longer…
And I continue to enjoy Metaphors in Ed Tech… I would be unaware of this book, probably, unemployed as I am… but for this podcast. So… both intended and unintended benefits…
We were meant to go to a hockey game this evening, but the older boy has a stomach ache… and it is dark and cold out there, and it is warm and bright here… you might say it’s a clean, well-lighted place up in here… so… I am taking great enjoyment from having us all together one night that they’re normally at their mom’s… I’m happy to grab any extra time with them whenever I can…
I’ve also tried to improve my cognitive life… and, in tandem, my capacity as an educator… writer… dad… and human being… by making a concentrated, purposeful effort to improve my sleep. The Sleep Solution is also close by at all times lately…. with lots of notes…
Oh, and here’s a link to that short story I was talking about with Doug… “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison… warning… it is pretty intense literary art…
Thanks to anybody who is taking an interest in what we are doing. We appreciate it!
More fun than you can a shake a stick at… #ednontechDoug’s notesThe pre-Internet Internet… AKA… the original Upside Down…Tech and a balanced life in Education
We now have terms such as ‘work extensification’ and ‘work intensification’.
Metaphors such as invasion and intrusion are applicable to e-technologies inasmuch as these terms speak to the tension in many academics’ homes… There is a strong need to establish boundaries to separate work and family life. Most felt that having e-technologies at home was of benefit to their work, but they came at a cost to their family life — delivering a blessing and a curse.
Currie, J., & Eveline, J. (2011). E-technology and work/life balance for academics with young children. Higher Education, 62(4), 533-550.
The most notable benefits are:
- The potential for 24×7 uninterrupted connectivity to human as well as information resources
- Increased flexibility
- Improved coordination
- Increased productivity through flexibility in time management
- Pleasure and enjoyment
- Availability of multiple media and genres of communication suited for different scenarios.
Guidelines
- Acknowledge that Individuals Perceive the Relationship Between Work and Life Very Differently
- Universal Strategies for the Use of Mobile Technologies are Unlikely to be Effective
- Strategies to Meet the Organization’s Overall Mobility Goals Should Cause Minimal Work-Life Conflict for Individual Employees
- Mobile Technologies Should be Implemented Consistent with Knowledge Workers’ WLB Perspectives
- Effective Management of Mobile Technology Usage Requires the Entire Organization to Work Together
- WLB-related Strategies and Suggestions Should be Applied with Caution
Sarker, S., Sarker, S., Xiao, X., & Ahuja, M. (2012). Managing employees’ use of mobile technologies to minimize work-life balance impacts.
The findings underscore the important role of Mobile Information Technology Devices (MITD) in terms of the attainment of flexibility (how, where, and when work is done), which is significant for achieving Work Life Balance (WLB). However, the use of MITDs has blurred the division between work and non-work domains. This has inadvertently lengthened employees’ working hours, has affected their family relationships, and affected their general health and wellbeing. The evidence suggests that MITDs have the potential to improve WLB but could also lead to work-life conflict if not properly managed.
Adisa, T. A., Gbadamosi, G., & Osabutey, E. L. (2017). What happened to the border? The role of mobile information technology devices on employees’ work-life balance. Personnel Review, 46(8), 1651-1671.
Depends on the culture
Academia as a ‘greedy workplace’
German interviewees described an excellent researcher as a person who embodied the ideal type of scientist with full-time devotion and no other obligations, early achievements, full identification with science, and geographical mobility.
Excellent researchers need a life outside research
In Sweden, most interviewees talked about the importance of having a life outside research, be it family or other interests. Even though there was a notable minority with the opinion that excellent research needed total commitment, the general opinion among researchers, both male and female and at all career stages, was that a reasonable work-life balance was desirable, even if difficult to achieve.
Salminen-Karlsson, M., Wolffram, A., & Almgren, N. (2018). Excellence, masculinity and work-life balance in academia: Voices from researchers in Germany and Sweden. International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 10(1), 52-71.
Thanks to everyone who has visited so far! We will hopefully see you next week!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqw2AaVdmt4Back home I guess it’s still snowing… #ednontech
Who has more fun than we do? #ednontechpodcastMatt’s notesHello and good evening! We are, surprisingly… at least to me… on episode #8!
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https://youtu.be/M7kRzTrkrnQYou’re really gonna have to see what this space looks like after the holidays!This has really been one of those weeks where… my son was sick for awhile… got me sick… he got better… went to his mom’s… turned thirteen… concluded his football season… won the top spot in the 3×3 basketball tourney… came back to my place… successfully tried out for his high school basketball team… got sick again… and got me sick again… and so we’ve been home all week so far, both of us… so any semblance of “productivity” on these (podcasting) endeavours is even more lacking than usual…
Oh, and FUCK THE DISCOVERY DOCTRINE!
Henceforth, Matt hopes to have these Notes in the proper order to which our vast… and informed… and good-looking audience has become accustomed.
We are prepared… with our Retro Innovative TechniquesTM… to teach in all kinds of weather… #ednontechDoug’s notesSome skills get hindered by tech, and forces new skills to be developed.Retro tech: Newer is not always better
Accessibility
- Accessible to people who cannot attend regular classes due to social, structural or personal reasons.
- Not limiting: people with disabilities can have access
- Learning resources adaptable to different media
Flexibility
- Physical flexibility to study at a time and place that suits learners.
- Educational flexibility to study in a manner appropriate for learners’ needs.
- Content, sequencing and structure of ODL programs are developed to support learners and are not strictly fixed like conventional academic institutions.
Learner-Centredness
- Provides education and training in a way that prioritize learners’ needs, rather than institutional convenience.
- Enables learners to pursue their studies in a way that is appropriate for their circumstances, learning goals and styles.
- Provide good quality learning materials in appropriate, accessible media, and gives sufficient support to ensure learners have a good chance of successful learning.
Widad, Othman. (Assoc. Prof) (2008, October 14). Educational Opportunity for teachers in Remote School Through Open University Malaysia Learning Model. Paper presented at The 22nd AAOU Annual Conference, Tianjin, China.
Texts to Etexts back to just texts.Since the remote areas lack basic amenities such as 24/7 electricity supply and communication infrastructure like cellular coverage, fixed line telephone and television broadcast signal, Faculty of Education decided to search for technology that could operate in this restricted environment and is able to fit these four criteria; interactive, easy to set up, low cost and ability to reach remote areas where the learners are. Faculty of Education could not find the solution when it looked forward into hi-tech communication technology of today since it does not meet all the four criteria required. The faculty decided to look into retro technology which is less demanding on technology infrastructure and cost. The use of two-way radio (TWR) is proposed as it is able to support the learning and teaching environment of the ‘pedalaman’ and fits the four required criteria.
Two way radio / ham radio
Alice Springs School of the Air – Australia
Teo, H. T., & Othman, W. (2010). Revisiting Retro Technology to Extend Educational Opportunity to Teachers in Remote Schools (pp. 502-509). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Research about non-users of technology may be framed in terms of concerns about access to certain technologies or internet services and ‘digital divides’ between those with or without such access. However, even those (like university lecturers) who have relatively easy access to technology and may use it frequently, occasionally make decisions to stop using particular technologies. Sometimes this is because an older technology, e.g. the Video Cassette Recorder, has been superseded and replaced but, as this paper will show, this is not always the case and even relatively new technologies, such as Facebook, may be adopted and then discarded. This article is therefore not about non-users of technology but about the decisions that users make about the specific technologies they use. In particular, it considers lecturers’ experiences of using technology in their teaching and the reasons they give for ceasing to use specific technologies.
Shelton, C. (2017). Giving up technology and social media: why university lecturers stop using technology in teaching. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 26(3), 303-321.
Some tech did not work and should not have been used in education to begin with.Some tech did not work and should not have been used in education to begin with.
‘Innovation’ has become an inescapable buzzword in recent years: the European Commission (EC) has established an ‘Innovation Policy’, which aims to create better jobs, build a greener society, improve quality of life and maintain EU competitiveness (EC 2019).
We argue that retro-innovation represents a critical practice, undertaken to counter modernisation trends.
A conceptualisation of retro-innovation, simply defined as:
The purposeful revival of historic practices, ideas and/or technologies…
Zagata, L., Sutherland, L. A., Hrabák, J., & Lostak, M. (2020). Mobilising the past: Towards a conceptualisation of retro‐innovation. Sociologia ruralis, 60(3), 639-660.
And how old are we?Far from being abandoned and forgotten, many old media devices and artefacts (such as vinyl records, cassette tapes, analogue photographic cameras, early videogames and brick mobile phones, to mention just a few notable examples) are nowadays readopted by young generations and niche media subcultures. (Is education a niche media subculture?)
Over the last 15 years, we have witnessed a significant reappropriation of media technologies from the past, which has attracted both scholarly and popular interest.
Retromedia (Roy, 2014) or Retrotechnologies (Sarpong et al., 2016)
Magaudda, P., & Minniti, S. (2019). Retromedia-in-practice: A practice theory approach for rethinking old and new media technologies. Convergence, 25(4), 673-693.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycef1R1YRfISo many words ending in -ation…Seriously, thanks! We are really enjoying this… and we hope you are as well!
It’s OK to fish, cause they don’t have any feelings… #metaphors #ednontech #thinkaboutit Matt’s notesPlease click to watch or listen, as per your preferences!
https://youtu.be/3BFMBcY7nO4FYI, Matt is taller than Doug IRL… but NOT BY MUCH… #justsayin #trustmeimadoctor Just an hour or so of your time! Or… less than that! Welcome to our fourth episode within ten days! This pace is surely good for creating… continuity… as far as delivery and process! Which are exactly the kind of abstract, borderline jargon that I would like to think I eschew… work in progress wins the day, I daresay!
Doug sent his notes over a couple of days ago… and Matt tried looking up “barrier” in Secwepemctsin through FirstVoices.ca… and came up empty… thinking further… for metaphors… he tried looking up “rock”… and had rather more success… including Coyote Rock… referring to a very specific geographical feature… of major cultural significance to the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc… some accounts of this appear in local tourist literature… There is also a strong resemblance here, as noted by Doug… between the vigilant Coyote Rock… and the Coyote statue looking vigilantly across the TRU campus and the surrounding environs from the top of the the House of Learning building…
Coyote, and his significance to the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc, are discussed in depth and at length in Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws (Ignace & Ignace, 2017). Again, this adds to Matt’s understanding of the land, culture, and people of where he is an uninvited guest…
s(e)k̓elepélqw… “Coyote Rock” near Savona, BC in traditional, unceded Secwépemc territory… image credit: Kamloops Trails.netImage credit: TRU FacebookDoug’s notesUsing tech can cause barriers to learning.
Though there have been large investments made to integrate technology into K12 classrooms to equip students with the skills needed to prepare for college and a career, the practical use of this investment has not been impressive
Delgado, A. J., Wardlow, L., McKnight, K., & O’Malley, K. (2015). Educational technology: A review of the integration, resources, and effectiveness of technology in k-12 classrooms. Journal of Information Technology Education, 14.
A total of 123 technology integration barriers were identified in previous empirical studies. Hew and Brush systematical investigated the previous literature and concluded that there were 6 main categories that limited and hindered technology integration: (a) resources, (b) knowledge and skills, (c) institution, (d) attitudes and beliefs, (e) assessment, and (f) subject culture.
Hew, K. F., & Brush, T. (2007). Integrating technology into K-12 teaching and learning: Current knowledge gaps and recommendations for future research. Educational Technology Research and Development, 55(3), 223-252.
Further barriers of education technology
Cost implications; technology is disruptive; entrenched organisational culture focussing on traditional learning; technology can disrupt classes when opened in class; availability and access to information can lead to increased cheating and plagiarism (The Economist, 2008).
Dawes (Bingimlas, 2009) holds the view that change, might not be easily accepted-there will be some degree of resistance
Challenges around the those who have access to this technology an those who don’t (digital divide) ; differing levels of computer literacy levels; less involved due to decreased teacher-learner and learner- learner interaction in the learning experience continue to persist (Koller, Harvey & Magnotta, unknown). Barriers of technology include lack of motivation due to poor social skills, poor computer skills and a lack of availability of access; a lack of time and class time and a lack of motivation and social awareness and school culture (Catherall, 2005).
Bingimlas (2009, 1) said that the major barriers of education technology include a lack of confidence, competence and a lack of access to resources.
Misalignment between teachers and administrators creates difficulty for teachers (Park, Lee, Blackman and Belland (2005)).
Joseph, J. (2012). The barriers of using education technology for optimizing the educational experience of learners. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 64, 427-436.
Teachers are constantly challenged to prepare graduates who can effectively use technology as a learning tool, yet the teachers themselves are new to various technology uses and have no personal experiences as students themselves in technology-infused classrooms (Jacobsen et al. 2002).
Various studies (Beggs, 2000; Newhouse, 1999) reported lack of time, lack of equipment, and lack of training as barriers to technology integration. Lack of time is also a big barrier: teachers need time to learn how to use the hardware and software, time to plan, and time to collabo- rate with other teachers. Teachers also need time to develop and incorporate technology into their curriculum. Some teachers are unable to make appropriate use of technology in their own classrooms, while others are unwilling to try because of anxiety, lack of interest, or lack of motivation (Duhaney, 2001). Most teachers cite ineffective technological leadership in their institutions as a big challenge to computer technology integration (Duhaney, 2001; Krueger et al. 2000). Cuban (2001) reported lack of time and poor technical support as barriers to technology integration at technology-rich Stanford University. Effective teacher need amble time to effectively organize and prepare instructional materials (Stronge, 2002).
In summary, major barriers identified by teachers in the use and integration of computer technology in the class- room include: lack of computers and relevant quality software, lack of time, lack of funding, technical problems, teacher attitude toward computers, lack of teacher confidence, resistance to change, poor administrative support, poor training, and a lack of vision to integrate technology into the curriculum. However, the real challenges of integrating information technology into the classroom depend on the behavior, investments, and commitment of individual teachers.
Keengwe, J., Onchwari, G., & Wachira, P. (2008). Computer technology integration and student learning: Barriers and promise. Journal of science education and technology, 17(6), 560-565.
*Doug adds: This article has articles from both of my advisors, my Masters Supervisor and my PhD supervisor. I have also published many book chapters with the lead author of this paper. I did not know this synchronicity existed before I started doing some work for this article.
Significant barriers about Handheld Computers (PDAs) in school include:
- Cost,
- Lack of support and training,
- Printing and battery problems (the necessity to charge battery every day),
- Small screens,
- Lack of print-out capability,
- The time it takes to input data and text,
- Costs of software.
And, further, to technical difficulties with the devices used in M-learning by handheld computers, such as: synchronizing the device with a PC, or laptop, navigation and file storage, short battery life, paucity of appropriate mobile software, lack of teacher confidence and lack of training impacted negatively on their teaching, together with uncertainty as to how the devices might best be used to enhance teaching and learning. Furthermore, Krämer (2005) presented some challenges of mobile learning that need to be addressed, such as, the small screens of mobile devices limits the type and amount of information that can be displayed and made it difficult to read the details. Lack of input devices such as mouse, keyboard or stylus pen slow down text input speed and reduce the device’s usability with respect to the interaction between man and machine. The lack of suitable multimedia player and viewer software (flash, Java, video, audio, etc.) on mobile devices disallows the use of animations and moving graphics. Finally, limited storage capacity and intermittent or slow connection rates since requires downloading, uploading, caching of educational materials.
Cherian and Williams (2008) indicated a few barriers to the distribution of course content in an M-Learning environment; content hosting and network infrastructures exist. Also, Chanchary and Islam (2009) clarified that the factors of M-learning environment can be treated as technical challenges, like, memory size of mobile devices is crucial while downloading learning materials. Battery life: shorter battery life of handheld devices can create negative stimuli among learners. Smaller screen size and compact buttons (keys) can discomfort learners. Interfaces of mobile phones are reduced to the essentials. Furthermore, learning materials could be in various file formats and not all formats are supported by the processing platforms of mobile devices.
In 2011 Martin Addison listed other three barriers related the learning content that is deliver by using of mobile devices in learning and that were preventing organizations from adopting M-learning, the first barrier is the lacked engaging educational content since the existing platforms focused on text-based content and had a very narrow breadth of subject areas related training, the second is too long content, which was designed for e- learning not for a learner on-the-move, the third barrier is that the content was designed for a large screen devices not designed for a small screen devices, e.g. learning navigation designed for a laptop screen was not easy to use on a touchscreen device (Addison, 2011). And also, Saleem (2011) classified the challenges hinder the implementation of mobile learning to three categories, technological, educational and general challenges, first, technological challenges: small screen and small keyboards used in mobile learning applications, short battery virtual age, and low storage capacity, second, educational challenges: designing and preparing educational mobile curricula, digital and technological gap between students in using mobile learning applications, and cheating in M-learning process, finally, general challenges: high cost, needs an infrastructure, wireless networks and modern mobile learning devices, and some security breaches for wireless and wire networks.
Al-Said, K. M. (2015). Students’ Perceptions of Edmodo and Mobile Learning and Their Real Barriers towards Them. Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology-TOJET, 14(2), 167-180.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jg8hZI7MrETo each their existentially emo #ednontech barriers…
‘Cause you can’t, you won’t, and you don’t stop… #ednontechMatt’s notesHere are the video and/or audio links!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTRcu4_Ed5gWe are bringing you all the hot #ednontech takes!!All the previous disclaimers are still applicable!As far as notes go… this episode doesn’t have many from Matt!
As a general aside, he’s trying to get better at reading… and to make reading a persistent, daily habit… borne of necessity and joy…
In terms of connecting more closely to the land where he is an uninvited visitor… I’m strongly recommending Celia Haig-Brown’s Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School… I am nearly finished, and have been annotating the margins like I haven’t done since Grad School…
Matt really wants to get more time in reading, and after that he’ll probably have more to say!
Matt, in the Matt Cave… for as long as he can get away with!Doug’s notesStudents are the centre of learning, not whatever whizbang tool someone just found.
Can you have teaching without learning?
Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys. We should ridicule a merchant who said that he had sold a great many goods although no one had bought any. But perhaps there are teachers who think they have done a good day’s teaching irrespective of what people have learned. There is the same exact equation between teaching and learning that there is between selling and buying.
Dewey, J. (1933). How we think. A restatement of the relation of reflective thinking to the educative process. Boston, MA: D.C. Heath and Company.
A college is an institution that exists to provide instruction. … shifting to a new paradigm … A college is an institution that exists to produce learning.
Under the logic of the Instruction Paradigm, colleges suffer from a serious design flaw; it is not possible to increase outputs without a corresponding increase in costs, because any attempt to increase outputs without increasing resources is a threat to quality.
Barr, R. B., & Tagg, J. (1995). From teaching to learning—A new paradigm for undergraduate education. Change: The magazine of higher learning, 27(6), 12-26.
Early interest in learning, or training, was centred purely on behaviour.
Pritchard, A. (2017). Ways of learning: Learning theories for the classroom. Routledge.
(The) relationship between teaching and learning is neither a necessary relationship, nor that it is always automatically a desirable relationship.
In all these cases was that the encounter with the concept and the request to adopt the concept… moved students beyond the traditional learner identity, moved them away from comprehension, to very different ways of being in and with the world. That comprehension became less central for the students was nicely demonstrated by a student who, when we had an informal gathering after the last session, asked me about something I had said earlier in the course. She prefaced her request by saying “I didn’t really understand it, but I’m not really concerned about that”.
Biesta, G. (2015). Freeing teaching from learning: Opening up existential possibilities in educational relationships. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 34(3), 229-243.
“No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education.”
John Carolus S. J.
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhqyZeUlE8UAiming for students first… is a SURE SHOT!!… Thanks… for certain… for checking out this educationally awesome content! But, for real… We are grateful… and we hope you’ve had an excellent week!