Welcome to my summary of learning! I enjoyed this semester with all of you as it was filled with thought-provoking debates, nuance, and great conversations from comments/discord! It was a very rewarding semester for me as I am able to walk away with some new tech skills including: (1) being able to navigate discord (what a great platform when you’re used to email chains), and (2) being able to make/edit videos (my first two EVER) thanks to Gerry! Here are…
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The [Education] Matrix
Is AI in education the helpful hero or a vicious villain? *Throughout this blog post I will be focusing on Generative Artificial Intelligence* I wanted to start this post off with a comment that Orie left on a previous blog post of mine talking about technology in education: Although Saskatchewan schools are likely very far away from investing $58,000 USD into our own version of Sally the AI Robot Tutor, it is very interesting to see how far education is…
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Is banning cell phones in K-12 classrooms the answer? As teachers were winding down from their summer vacation in 2024, the Ministry of Education was winding up to announce a major shift in policy as cell phones were banned from K-12 schools in Saskatchewan on August 6. This announcement was met with great divide, as educators were either breathing a sigh of relief that they would no longer have to police these pesky devices, or they were scrambling to restructure…
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Are we giving social media too much agency in framing it as a thief of childhood? Have you ever been so excited for something that you don’t even consider the potential drawbacks of what you are excited for? It is my belief that this is what happened with society and social media. It was at the kitchen table in my childhood home where I convinced my mom to let me commit my first act of identity fraud and lie about…
Continue readingCooking Up Controversy: Can We Have Our Cake and Eat it Too?
Finding a balance between starving ourselves of and binging on technology in education. I wanted to continue with the food metaphors that were used in the first debate today, and I thought that it naturally paired perfectly with the following idiom (or maybe even existential question): Can we have our cake and eat it too when it comes to utilizing technology in education? The spices and cooking metaphor really sent me down a path of reflection and consideration that I…
Continue readingMy Hypocritical and Liminal Relationship with Technology
When I take a moment to try to define my philosophy regarding technology in education, I often end up fearing that I am showing students “the steep and thorny way to heaven” while “reck[ing] [my] own rede” (Shakespeare, 1992, I. III. 49-51). Although Shakespeare says it much more eloquently, at the end of the day I find myself being a hypocrite regarding technology. Despite telling my students that they should not use technology for things that they can do on…
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