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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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Here is the summary of learning.

This video may be my magnum opus, and makes my Summaries of Learning from EC&I 831 in 2019 (which I called “a masterpiece. The Citizen Kane of final projects”) and EC&I 834 in 2021 (which I “presented without comment”) look like hot garbage. To be clear, I am NOT joking, it is that much better,Continue reading “The Greatest Thing I Have Ever Done”

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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In my reflection after Debate #1, I borrowed Michelle’s description of the classroom as a “sacred learning space.” I argued that technology did not need to be banished from that space, but it should have to knock before entering. Cellphones, unfortunately, are terrible at knocking. They buzz in pockets, light up beneath desks, vibrate againstContinue reading “Technology Should Knock: Why I Still Support Cellphone Bans”

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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Cellphones in the classroom is a topic that holds various opinions within a staff/division. Even with the policy that was put in place in Saskatchewan, there are still some very convincing points to why cellphones should be welcome in schools. It’s interesting to see experts use their perspective and expertise to be convincing both ways. […]

This video was clarification to me within the debate today. This discussion, truthfully, took me both ways with every point and counter point brought up. AI is adapting, changing and progressing within our lives as professionals and within our personal lives. While it is within our lives, we must also understand that teachers and students […]

Anyone who knows me well knows that Jurassic Park is my favourite movie. I once even designed an English B10 unit around the novel (which is quite different and better from the film, though this is neither the time nor place for that lecture). Following Sam Neill’s recent death, I offhandly used one of AlanContinue reading “Running to Catch Up: AI, Education, and the Jurassic Park Problem”

I did not expect a debate about childhood to involve steroids, alcohol prohibition, TikTok dances, online third spaces, acceptable-use policies, and Star Wars. Yet, somehow, all of them entered the conversation. The pre and post scores were interesting too, with 78% initially agreeing with the titular statement and then only a minority, about 40%, atContinue reading “Only the Sith Deal in Absolutes: Has Social Media Ruined Childhood?”