Grocholski – An educational Journey

Well, here we are at the end. This class has challenged me in ways that I didn’t think was possible at this point in my career. Thanks to everyone who joined me in this journey. Enjoy!

Does anyone remember this movie? No, it wasn’t the prequel to The Matrix….or was it???? Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality hold so much potential for education, but the cost is extremely prohibitive. When I was looking at this presentation, I had seriously considered buying an Oculus Quest headset, and getting some hands on time with […]

This past week, with the groups presentation on coding and maker spaces, I must have been in the process or trying to print my own brain. I was asked by Gilles what my own experience was in Alberta with a makerspace, and I completely forgot that 3D printing counted! It was definitely one of those […]

After this weeks presentation I felt that I had not done much to provide tools to my students, yet at the same time each of my students has been finding themselves solutions to problems that exist in their own learning. In Alberta, students all have access to universal accommodations on all their provincial based testing. […]

The use of assessment technology in my teaching career has been sporadic at best.  As a teacher of mainly English, I do not have many tests, and if I do, they are paper and pencil.   When we were in the throws of Covid, I did have some quizzes on the reading that we had been […]

Decentralizing seems like stepping back into the past.  I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but I do know that the idea of Web 3.0 is a bit confusing. Coming from Saskatchewan to Alberta was a bit of a jarring experience in the mid-2000s.  If I needed car insurance, […]

As with many of my colleagues, the pandemic brought about a large shift in how I presented my lessons to my students.  We were required, almost overnight, to transition to an online platform that most teachers had previously never had to explore, let alone use as the raft to carry their students down the raging […]

As soon as the “Single-tasking is the New Multitasking” video came on I felt an immediate urge to multitask.  I am not shy about my own struggles with task completion, and I know that I can be a hyper-focused uni-tasker.  So when our ‘hero’ in this video is texting, writing a memoir, cooking supper, taking […]

Entering the Matrix The first time I saw The Matrix in the movie theaters, I was blown away by the whole movie.  The action, the premise, the special effects, and the philosophy.   Watching Morpheus and Neo fight in a sparring program fulfilled my need to see people beating the snot out of each other.  But […]

Simply, educational technologies are tools used by students to complete tasks given by a teacher.  As we discovered in class this past week, as new tools are introduced, the alarm is raised to what is going to be lost.  So for others, educational technologies could be defined as tools to rob students of skills that […]