Category: ETEC 533

Jasper Series Impressions

Teachers often labour to anchor learning in a realistic and applicable context and with firsthand experience I must say it is no easy task. In an effort to develop material to cater to the instructional needs of teachers and learning needs of students the Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt (CTGV) developed the Jasper Woodbury […]

Pedagogical Design in Math and Science Education

As part of my ETEC 533 course, which focuses on technology in the science and math classroom, we were given the following quote: Kozma recommends that, “Designers should provide students with environments that restructure the discourse of …classrooms around collaborative knowledge building and the social construction of meaning” (Kozma, 2003, p.9). What do you think […]

Google Earth 5.0

Google Earth 5.0 was released last week and I have been meaning to post about it for some time now.  A new feature added to Google’s already acclaimed software is the ability to step forward and backward through all available satellite imagery with a feature called “Historical Data”.  This relates to research in my ETEC […]

ETEC 533 Module A Reflection

The first module of my ETEC 533 class has been very interesting thus far.  In this module we have engaged in a variety of activities in this module including: A discussion of what it mean to use technology in an effective manner. Analyzing and discussing video case studies depicting student and teacher responses to technology. […]

Touch Recognition for SMART Boards

SMART has just released a new feature for its SMART Boards that I heard about last year.  At a teacher’s convention I was talking to a SMART representative who put on his hush-hush voice and told me about a new feature that should be released in the next month.  The feature he spoke of was […]

Teaching With Technology – Interview Analysis

Interviewee The interviewee was J.P. a junior high science teacher who teaches in rural Alberta.  J.P. has a BSc and a BEd and has devoted most of his teacher preparation to the performing arts and general sciences.  This is J.P.’s first full time teaching position and his second year teaching.  He has received a variety […]