In today’s class, Eliza who was in Vancouver, was able to attend class via technology in a remotely controlled robot from Beam; a system for remote communications. What a new experience for me! It is great that Eliza was up for the challenge and for all of us to be able to experience remote learning in a classroom.

(Speaking of privacy – all recognizable people in this photo gave permission for this photo to be here.)

Today we reviewed privacy on the internet through FIPPA; teachers are responsible for engaging students in notice, knowledge, and consent with privacy on the internet.

Topics discussed in the reflection of the movie “Most Likely to Succeed”.

  1. Standardizing assessment with the evolving and changing goals that students pursue.
  2. Questioning whether or not exhibition or grading is better for students and their future in jobs and college.
  3. New teachers are becoming responsible for curriculum. Is this going to work when teachers are have different ideas, lives and ideas about what the students should be learning?
  4. This is a time of transition which is exciting and scary all at the same time.
  5. Teachers are still responsible in the new curriculum for guiding and directing learning, but that students are also becoming responsible for setting curriculum and learning goals for themselves through inquiry.

Online resources introduced in class:

https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/dsc/ – Rich McCue; resources and workshops in the library on learning technologies

https://www.tinkercad.com/ – 3 – D design

Imovie app for iphone and video editing

https://www.strava.com/ – app for bikes and running

https://unsplash.com/ – images licensed for re-use

https://twinery.org/ – open source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

Slides from class for week 1 and 2;  https://edtechuvic.ca/edci336/2019/09/13/slides-from-week-one-and-two/