Author Jacquie
On this page you will find the course syllabus and outline. I chose to create a more formal course syllabus for the teacher professional development program in case teachers needed to present something formal to their administrator, district, or union… Continue Reading →
To get started, here’s what you need: For a more detailed list and the session outlines, please see the syllabus and course outline page.
For this first lesson, based on the outline, I chose to stick to the do’s and don’ts about student data and privacy. The district I work for does a really good job with providing access to a lot of digital… Continue Reading →
Lesson 2 focuses on: Here is a link to the Google Doc so you can make your own copy. Please be aware it is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. Individuals are permitted to share, copy, adapt, and redistribute this material for non-commercial… Continue Reading →
Session 3 takes a look at 2 frameworks that have emerged from the research to help understand how and why teachers use technology in their practice. Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition (SAMR)The SAMR model (Puentedura, 2006) is a model that’s broken… Continue Reading →
This course was a bit of a surprise to me in that it felt like it should have come at the beginning of our Masters program rather than as the final class with weekly meetings. The timing of the topics… Continue Reading →
“Given both the significant potential to change the nature of instruction, as well as the difficulties inherent in adopting new tools and pedagogies, digital technologies provide a critical context for the investigation of the relationship between teachers’ beliefs and classroom… Continue Reading →
I feel that a key piece of understanding this chasm between the amount of technology available and the ACTUAL integration of technology by teachers is to demonstrate the expenditures on technology (both hardware and software) and compare it to the… Continue Reading →
Welcome to my Master’s of Education blog! This blog will be a space that I post updates on my journey through my program. It will mostly feature updates and thoughts about Education Technology with a dash of French Immersion education.
This week the major topic was “Personalized Learning; Learning Structures; Social Media; Personal Learning Networks” and we had a guest speaker, Jeff Hopkins, who spoke about his work with inquiry based learning. Jeff is the founder and co-principal of the… Continue Reading →