Today was a beautiful day of firsts. I recently had a new baby and have been stuck in the endless cycle of diaper changes and nursing. Such a dramatic change to one’s life has the high potential to impact your mental health. My mental health is top of mind right now as I go through […]
Read more "Mental Health and Teaching Online"I continue to work on my masterâs studies at UVIC, and am taking the course âTheory and Discourse on Distributed and Open Learningâ while teaching part-time at an online school in BC. In class a few weeks ago, we discussed modality models that focus on merging modalities. In the world of online learning, there are […]
Read more "What is the Future of Modality in Education?"This fall, I am continuing my masterâs studies at UVIC and taking the course âTheory and Discourse on Distributed and Open Learningâ while also teaching part-time at an online school in BC. A few weeks ago in class at UVIC, we discussed possibilities for blending asynchronous and synchronous instructional time as teachers and are practicing […]
Read more "Blending Synchronous and Asynchronous Instructional Time in Online Learning"As a student in the Master of Educational Technology program at UVIC, I found chapter 5 âToward Understanding âComputer Applicationââ in the book Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki, an interesting place to dwell for the afternoon. In my classes, we have talked about the meaning of educational […]
Read more "Online Teacher = Orderer"One idea in Aokiâs writing that resonates with my experience teaching is his insight on the space between curriculum-as-plan and the lived curriculum. I am thinking specifically about how Aoki explains that things can grow in this space. When reading the description, my mind immediately thought of a space called the boundary layer where mosses […]
Read more "The Boundary Layer"Â Ted Aokiâs chapter âImaginaries of âEastâ and âWestâ: Slippery Curricular Signifiers in Educationâ from the book Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki, asked me today to stop and ponder every day and overlooked in a new way. The chapter delves quickly and deeply into abstractions that ask […]
Read more "A Space of “This” and “That”"Winter is coming to an end, and I find myself reflecting on the frosty mornings and moonlight evenings when sailing on the water taxi these past months. Winter is a wild time to travel by boat to school. There are many windy days where sailings are canceled. There are also icy mornings with frost-kissed docks […]
Read more "Winter on the Sea: Online Learning vs. Face-to-Face"Online learning is very different than in-person learning. As an online teacher, I have done research on what it takes for students to be engaged. One interesting article that I recently read on this topic was the âTrifecta of Student Engagement: A Framework for Engaging Students in Online Coursesâ written by Heather J. Leslie at […]
Read more "Thinking about Student-to-Student Engagement in Online, Asynchronous Learning Environments"As a teacher who works in a uniquely remote community at an online school, I am interested in the complexities of online learning. I work in the Gulf Islands School District, which is a network of ten schools spanning five islands. Specifically, I teach at 64GO, which is the districtâs online school, and the school […]
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