INTRO course: Portfolio assignment 4 – Evaluating affordances of blogs

The term affordance was introduced by James J. Gibson (1977). An affordance is a quality of an object, or an environment, which allows an individual to perform an action. These “action possiblities” are objectively measurable and independent of the individual, but always in relation to the actor and therefore a product of an interaction between […]

INTRO course: Portfolio assignment 3 – My Personal Learning Environment

My Personal Learning Environment The term personal learning environment (PLE) describes the tools, communities, and services that constitute the individual educational platforms that learners use to direct their own learning and pursue educational goals. PLEs represent a shift away from the model in which students consume information through independent channels such as the library, a […]

INTRO course: Portfolio assignment 1

We made a presentation about the state of educational technology in Mexico (embedded below). Here is my blog post on the same issue. Educational technology in Mexico I won’t go into details and statistics here, they can be found in the presentation and the resources used in it. Here I have just briefly written about […]

ICT Workshop: Blogging skills

Our task was to practice embedding media to our blog. So, here we go: A youtube video I watched while researching our presentation ‘Educational Technology in Mexico’. An early version of our Powerpoint presentation, embedded from slideshare. You can find the final version (made in Prezi) here. My mindmeister mindmap.

Optimising Learning: Implications of Learning Sciences Research

I read the article in the reading materials for the INTRO course, Optimising Learning: Implications of Learning Sciences Research (R. Keith Sawyer). I will not go much into it here, but I did want to bring up the naive attitude in the article towards Behaviorism (as is typical of adherents of Consctructivism). For example, claims such […]

Guest lecturer, Paul Kirschner

We had a guest lecturer from the Netherlands, Paul Kirschner. Students had prepared him questions about Educational Technology. Paul gave interesting and long (but still to the point somehow!) answers to the questions. He seemed to be a true expert in this field of study and had an energetic and motivating “lecturing” style. Some main […]

INTRO course ICT Workshop: Mind Map

In our ICT Workshop we made a mindmap using Mindmeister. Here’s mine! https://www.mindmeister.com/204337069/learning-and-educational-technology In a very simple mind map like this, I didn’t find any benefits in doing it digitally. I can see the potential, though. It makes modifying, storing and sharing complex mind maps easier and also allows the use of multimedia and links in the mind […]

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