Literacy

This week, teacher candidates from EKTEP took part in a local elementary school-wide event called Innovation Hour, where students had the opportunity to discover, explore, and play with different types of educational technologies. Taking place in the gymnasium, we set up five different stations for the event: GoCubes The first station I facilitated was the…

For this week’s class, we had the opportunity to visit the School District 5 Design Lab located at one of the local elementary schools. The instructor explained the idea behind Transformative Learning and Technology, which seeks to build creative and critical thinking through hands-on, inquiry-led processes using digital tools. One device that was shown to…

In Class nine, groups presented on their Education Technology inquiry projects. Apart from our own presentation on Virtual Field Trips, topics ranged from digital literacy, high tech vs. low tech, to technologies designed for security and surveillance purposes. After our group presented, the next group discussed developing digital literacy for both the teacher and the…