DATE AGENDA AND READING
Week 1: Jan 6-12 Welcome to EDCI 136!

Review course outline expectations

Orientation to the technology

  • Mattermost, WordPress, Pods, Labs, Zoom, Calendly

Ethical and legal considerations

  • Privacy/Security, FIPPA, and Consent

GUESTS:

  • UVic President Hall
    • (Recorded video in Brightspace)
  • Brian Lamb, Redirector of Innovation, TRU
    • (Recording Posted on Course Blog)
Week 2: Jan 13-19 Launch Blog Sign-Up

  • Sign up for OpenETC account (we will create your blog in a batch request)
  • Learner Pathways Survey

Digital Literacy frameworks

  • ISTE, UNESCO, & BC Digital Literacy Frameworks (both K12 and PSE)
  • Self-Assessment and Goals

Citizenship

  • Expanded Topics on Privacy and Consent
  • Digital Footprint – Search yourself

GUEST: Jesse Miller, Mediated Reality
Wed, Jan 15, 6-7pm PST (recorded)

GUEST: Representative from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (postponed to another week TBD)
Week 3: Jan 20-26 Developing Your Inquiry

GUEST: Jeff Hopkins, Pacific School of Inquiry and Innovation
Monday, January 20 10-11am PST in Zoom and also in Clearihue B007 (which is a videoconferencing room) for those who want to join in-person. Recorded and posted on course blog.

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Mis/Dis-information – SIFT Methodology

GUEST: Mike Caulfield
Tues, Jan 21, 6-7pm in our Zoom room (Recorded and posted on course blog)
Week 4: Jan 27-Feb 2 Digital Literacy frameworks

  • ISTE, UNESCO, & BC Digital Literacy Frameworks (both K12 and PSE)
  • Self-Assessment and Goals
Week 5: Feb 3-9 Intellectual Property, Open Educational Resources, Digital and Open Scholarship

  • Copyright, Creative Commons, Fair Dealing, and Public Domain
  • Open Educational Resources

GUEST: Cable Green, Director, Creative Commons
Wednesday, January 29 from 12 noon-1pm PST in course Zoom
(Recorded and posted on course blog under instructor posts)

GUEST: David Wiley, Lumen Learning (former BYU)
Week 6: Feb 10-16 Academic Integrity

  • Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton, UCalgary – Recording Resource: From Plagiarism to Postplagiarism: Navigating the GenAI Revolution in Higher Education

Artificial Intelligence

GUEST: Lucas Wright, UBC

GUEST: Dr. Mariel Miller, UVic
Week 7: Feb 17-23 READING WEEK – ENJOY!
Week 8: Feb 24-March 2  Curation

  • Social Annotation
  • Zotero

GUEST: Remi Kalir on Annotation w/ Hypothes.is
Recorded and posted on class site

GUEST: Jessica Mussell (UVic Libraries) on Zotero (for curation and citation)
Recorded and posted on class site

 
Week 9: March 3-9 Intro to Accessibility

Data Ownership

Datafication

GUEST: Bonnie Stewart, University of Windsor on Datafication
Recording posted on class blog

GUEST: UVic AVP of University Systems, Wency Lum, on Cybersecurity
Recorded and posted in BrightSpace

GUEST: Charlie Watson (UVic Centre for Accessible Learning) on Accessibility
Recording posted on class blog
Week 10: March 10-16 Indigenous Digital Literacies

Inclusion and Inequity in Digital Spaces

Surveillance and Algorithms

Tracking and Log Data

GUEST: Nodin Cutfeet on Indigenous Digital Literacies
Recorded and posted to class site

GUEST: Team from CAL to expand on Intro to Accessibility (Rights & Resources)
Recorded and posted on class blog

GUEST: Ian Linkletter, BCIT, on proctoring/surveillance
Recording privately posted in learning management system

GUEST: Chris Gilliard, on surveillance
Audio podcast privately posted in learning management system
Week 11: March 17-23 Logic and Critical Thinking

Digital Health, Wellbeing, and Environment

Inequity in Digital Spaces

GUEST: Dr. Maha Bali, American University of Cairo in Equity in Digital Spaces

GUEST: Dr. Thomas Land (UVic Philosophy) on Logic & Critical Thinking

EVENT OPTION: Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton
Global Trends in Education: Artificial Intelligence and Future-Focused Learning for 2025 and Beyond
Week 12/13: March 24-April 4*

*note extended period

 Extended Explorations

  • GUEST: Dr. Normand Roy, UMontreal on AI tools – how to use
    Recorded. Will be posted on course blog
  • GUEST: Alan Levine on Web Literacy
  • GUEST: MaryAnn Kempthorne on Libraries/Access to Knowledge After Graduation
  • Modality with Valerie
  • Computational Thinking
  • Building a PLN
  • Collaboration w/ Apps (e.g., Google, Microsoft, Open Tools)
  • Making/Editing resources
  • Finding and attributing resources
  • Curation Tools
    • Your blog
    • Feedly
    • Diigo

Sector-based Digital Tools

  • Email your instructor with your wishlist topics and/or guests. Can be academics or professionals from within or beyond UVic. There will be lots of guests this week so choose your own adventure!
  • Ideas so far received:
    • Libraries and access to knowledge when beyond the university
    • How to use UVic Libraries System
    • Archival data
    • Influential programmers

Reflections and Sharing
Closeout: April 1-15*

 

 Assessment Meetings