DATE AGENDA AND READING
Topic 1: Sep 6 Welcome to EDCI 336!

  • Review course outline expectations
  • Personal Learning Networks
  • Activity: Orientation to the technology including starting to create a personal WordPress website
Topic 2: Sep 13 Learning Design (Zoom class)

  • Watch and discuss Most Likely to Succeed
  • FIPPA, Privacy and Consent
  • Intellectual Property Open Educational Resources (OER)
  • Activity: Blog post with images, video, and audio
Topic 3: Sep 20 Digital Storytelling, Screencasting & Video Editing (MacLaurin Computer Lab)

  • Digital Storytelling
  • Video Editing, Screen Capture, Interactive Videos, & Podcasts
  • Activity: Create an interactive video & post it to your personal WordPress website
Topic 4: Sep 27 Generative AI: Student Learning & Teacher Productivity

  • GenAI & academic assignments (encourage or discourage?)
  • GenAI for teacher productivity
  • Activity: Using GenAI to assist in lesson plan creation
  • Activity: Making GenAI-resistant assignment
Topic 5: Oct 4 Cross-Curricular 3D Design & Printing (Library Digital Scholarship Common – Room 308)

  • Design & build with stuff around the house
  • Explore how 3D Design and printing can transform digital models into solid objects that can be held and examined in a learning setting.
  • Activity: Design 3D objects using TinkerCad
  • Activity: Submit a design you created to be printed
  • Activity: Group building activity with crafting materials
  • Activity: Start planning for group based Assignment 2
Topic 6: Oct 11 Assistive Technology & Equity (Zoom class – Thanksgiving holiday week)

  • Assistive Technology Overview
  • Activity: Make your reflective blog post fully inclusive
Topic 7: Oct 18 Intentionality in Technology-Enabled Learning Design

  • Tools to Evaluate Educational Technologies
  • Activity: Sketchnoting
  • Activity: Infographics
Topic 8: Oct 25 Coding & Gaming in Education

  • Why learn to code?
  • Key characteristics of gamification
  • Activity: Coding with Elsa and Anna…
  • Activity: Test an educational game
Topic 9: Nov 1 EdCamp Session (Zoom class)

  • Activity: Help plan and then participate in an EdCamp!
  • Activity: Work on Assignment 2 with Learning Pod
Topic 10: Nov 8 Technology, Classroom Management, & Inquiry

  • GUEST: Brittany
  • Activity: Work on Group presentations
Topic 11: Nov 15 Digital Devices: Bicycles for the Mind or Distraction Machines? (Zoom class – Reading Break week)
(note: no pre-work required for this week’s topic)

  • Assignment #2 Video Due TODAY
  • Are smartphones and tablets helpful in educational settings?
  • Managing device use in our classrooms in light of new BC guidelines
  • Activity: Turn off non-essential distracting notifications on our devices
  • Activity: Using sensors on smartphones or tablets for science experiments
  • Activity: Work on Group presentations
Topic 12: Nov 22 Citizenship Online + Group Presentations

  • Activity: Group presentations
  • Privacy, Safety, Bullying, Consent
Topic 13: Nov 29 Reflecting on the term and next steps + Group Presentations

  • Activity: Group presentations
  • Activity: Sketchnoting, personalized course review