💻🍎📲👩💻📸✍️🙌 Throughout our class, we explored Multimedia learning theory and image editing, and how to incorporate these elements into education. I learned of the importance of creating our own images and graphics to help students learn more “deeply from words and pictures than from words alone” (Mayer, 2009, p. 189). We also discussed intrinsic, extraneous,…
🍂🌿🌷🌞🐿️🌳🪵📸📱 Today, our class took our digital learning outdoors by exploring the Finnerty Gardens at UVic. We were joined by Kristen Pierce, who is an experienced teacher who has taught Kindergarten through Grade 8, and currently teaches at Monterey Middle School. She encouraged us to keep an open mind about teaching different grades and to…
📲 🤳 👩💻 📸 🍎 💻 🎞️ 🧑🏫 Today we discussed ideas and issues surrounding “Social Media in Education” with the guest speaker, Jesse Miller. After reflecting on our class today, I am left considering the question of “What would you tell your younger self about social media today?” My first experience with social media…
👩🏫 🍎 📚 🏫 ✏️🚍📓This week we explored the topic of “teachers as content creators,” and we began reflecting on the discussion question of “how to teach a lesson that is unfamiliar?” Throughout the class, we looked at many different resources that are commonly used by teachers and what they are designed for. Examples such…