I remember reviewing learning theories ‘way’ back in the ‘day’ (think there were still VCR/TV Combos in a school near you back then for those doing A/V in the classroom haha) when I was in university. The names Skinner, Bruner, and Piaget were ones we studied in EPS classes. It was important to review these […]
Welcome to my first ECI 833 blog. We were asked to do the following: write a blog post exploring your personal understanding of educational technology. What might a contemporary definition of educational technology look like? How has your own understanding and practice of using educational technology been shaped (consciously or not) by the rich historical […]
Hello, my name is Dean Vendramin and I’m looking forward to another great class with another amazing group of people. Stay tuned for my reflections and thoughts.
The Videos Here are the videos I have created for my summary of learning, what I learned from the debates and more … The Resources One thing these classes never fail to produce are amazing collection of resources. Classmates do amazing research that always provide important data, opinions, and resources. People were sharing these freely […]
The Debate The Pre-Vote The Thoughts It was another timely and thoughtful debate. Both teams did incredible jobs with the research, presentations, and delivery (Thanks Mike, Jacquie, Brad,and Michala). One thing that has struck me about the debates and it’s that one word usually sticks out to me and this time was ‘promote’. Are you […]
The Great Debate The Intro Video The Aftermath My partner, Sherrie, and I stayed on the Zoom for a little post debate breakdown / reflection. We had a blast researching, planning, creating, and delivering our debate. We also felt that our esteemed opponents did a fantastic job presenting their side. Here’s our postmortem vlog … […]
‘Don’t Ban, Make a Plan‘ lets make some bumper stickers for this. Granted I sometimes wonder about cell phones being in the classroom too and the ‘ban’ side made many great points … especially the whiteboard tally with the amount of distractions. I can’t see a ban but do see a need for a plan. […]
The Debate The Intro Video The Results Are In A Few Words of Reflection It’s a fact that social media has become woven in the fabric of not only youth today, but society as a whole. So instead of slamming the use of social media by children, we need to understand it ourselves and model […]
On tap for this debate the statement of … ‘Schools should not focus on teaching things that can be easily googled.’ The team of Curtis and Lisa kinda went up against the team of Daina and Jocelyn but the result was actually something I think was appropriate for this topic. Check out the the video […]
On Tuesday May 26th, 2020, the ‘epicness’ of the best Great Ed Tech (G.E.T.*) debates continued. This night’s topic was ‘Technology is a force for equity in society.’ On the pro side was Nataly and Kalyn, and on the con side was Victoria and Jasmine. Even a prairie storm couldn’t cause a power outage on […]
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