{"id":5566,"date":"2025-06-11T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T19:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/2025\/06\/11\/blog-post-4-weekly-reflection\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T19:58:21","slug":"blog-post-4-weekly-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/2025\/06\/11\/blog-post-4-weekly-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 4: Weekly Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDCI 339 <\/p>\n

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This week\u2019s material has prompted me to reflect on what meaningful engagement through online learning platforms entails in comparison to traditional educational roles and learning. <\/p>\n

Barnes (2016)Barnes (2016)<\/a>\u00a0highlights instructor presence as a key factor in cultivating students\u2019 learning. He creates an engaging and authentic community.Through interactions, teachers provide feedback and communication to their students, encouraging open communication and a setting that provides a secure and welcoming space for people to work together and express who they are.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Similarly,\u00a0Stewart\u2019s (2016) Podcast\u00a0<\/a>promotes networked pedagogy, where students\u2019 roles are to build knowledge through participation in digital networks, which, through student participation and collaboration, creates a sense of autonomy over their learning. It is important to understand that the idea of \u201cnetwork pedagogy\u201d seeks to design for equity, discourse, and student representation, making sure that all students feel at ease, even when some platforms may establish hierarchies and divisions. <\/p>\n

Within the readings,\u00a0Martin Weller\u2019s (2020) Chapter\u00a0<\/a>explores the idea of connectivism, which can be explained as learning as a process of forming connections between people, ideas, resources, or platforms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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All of these resources expand my understanding of digital education and how it necessitates rethinking and creating new identities, communities, and\u00a0spaces where students feel comfortable and connected, thereby better supporting their digital learning, which may be something they aren\u2019t accustomed to. This is a dynamic process where teachers must be present, and the learning space should be a co-constructed environment where students feel safe to collaborate and connect within relationships, technologies, and commitments. I have personally had great experiences with online instructors and horrible ones. The ones who provided feedback and communication were the ones that I felt supported my overall learning and learning space. For me personally, the instructors who put in the most effort getting to know the students were the ones I felt more comfortable talking to; having said that, the classes that I felt comfortable with and where my learning was supported were the classes I did the best in as well, I saw the results, through the teacher\u2019s involvement as well as my participation, the co-construction is what worked in achieving the goal in the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Resources: <\/p>\n

Curating Episodes that Have Most Impacted My Teaching \u2013 Teaching in Higher Ed says:, Networked Pedagogy with Bonnie Stewart | totallyrewired says:, & Group Work Task: Networked Learning\u202f: | debsphdblog says: (2019, August 3). Networked pedagogy<\/em>. Teaching in Higher Ed. https:\/\/teachinginhighered.com\/podcast\/networked-pedagogy\/\u00a0<\/p>\n

DeWaard, H., Barnes, C., Taleo, W., Nerantzi, C., Mitchell-Holder, S., Spellman-Cann, S., Hendricks, C., Roberts, V., Luong, E., Krasheninnikova, L., Grant, K., Al-Freih, M., Bartoletti, R., Bali, M., & Whitney Kilgore. (2016, November 14). Where\u2019s the teacher?\u00a0 defining the role of instructor presence in social presence and cognition in online education<\/em>. Humanizing Online Teaching and Learning. https:\/\/pressbooks.pub\/humanmooc\/chapter\/wheres-the-teacher-defining-the-role-of-instructor-presence-in-social-presence-and-cognition-in-online-education\/\u00a0<\/p>\n

Weller, M. (2020). \u201cChapter 17 \u2013 2010 Connectivism.\u201d 25 Years of Edtech. AUPress. https:\/\/read.aupress.ca\/read\/25-years-of-ed-tech\/section\/198057f5-1a3e-4436-a4b8-c6e1a3e0bd69#ch17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EDCI 339 This week\u2019s material has prompted me to reflect on what meaningful engagement through online learning platforms entails in comparison to traditional educational roles and learning. Barnes (2016)Barnes (2016)\u00a0highlights instructor presence as a key factor in cultivating students\u2019 learning…. Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}