Emerging Technologies for Educational Change

Sam's spin:

Emerging technologies have the power to sustain, transform, and disrupt education.

Students work with and explore emerging technologies that may/will have a large impact on teaching, learning, research and creative expression.

EDPE 640 is a practical hands-on course grounded in constructivist learning theory; students will analyze their own learning experiences.

This is a co-constructed course designed to speak specifically to students' realities and address areas of teaching/learning identified by the practitoner-learners in the class and to just have fun.

Students will build a personal learning network (PLN) with their classmates using Perusall, Mighty Networks and Twitter to post comments/reflections on themselves as learners, students, and teachers. These tools will also be used to reflect on:

• systems thinking (cybernetics)

• the 'big' ideas (in education, technology and life)

• thinking about the 'thinking' (metacognition)

• implications for learning/teaching in a post-pandemic world

• 'teaching' is/should be focused on relationships.

• How does technology improve/jeopardize this?

• Possible topics for presentation on emerging technologies during the 2nd half of the course by students:

  • • Augmented Reality;

    • Virtual Reality;

    • 3D Printing;

    • Robotics;

    • Adaptive Learning Algorithms;

    • Asynchronous Learning and Microlearning (and associated micro-credentials);

    • Live Streaming (school to school, school to expert, remote teaching and learning, etc. via Zoom, for example);

    • Artificial Intelligence;

    • Social Learning (obviously closely related to synchronous and asynchronous learning);

    • Learning Games and Simulations

Course Texts & article readings:

Please do not purchase the texts 'anywhere' as they will be purchased/accessed through Perusall. Article readings also will be posted/uploaded on Perusall.

Details to follow in August via MyCourses.

Course Requirements/Assignments (draft ...draft):

• Weekly Journal/Blog Reflection (20 marks)

• Perusall readings & annotations (20 marks)

• Collaborative Work: small group discussion (15 marks) Twitter (5 marks)

• Emerging Technology presentation (20 mark)

• Final Project (20 marks)

• This mark breakdown will be adjusted/changed based on student feedback and background in class 1.

Typical class breakdown ~ to be decided/discussed during the first class depending on student/class needs

• 10 - 20 minutes Hellos and welcome and sharing. An occasional short video to introduce the weekly topic/lab

• 30 - 40 minutes --small group discussion based on weekly readings ~ questions submitted by group leader 2 days before class

• 60 - 75 minutes -- on main subject or topic ~given on the syllabus -- students will present weeks 6 to 11

• 30 - 45 minutes -- follow up on the weekly topic, work on presentation or project, share stuff, etc. etc.

Reserved in library to help with research and/or presentation projects: