Blogs

  • Reflection: Talk on Waniskâw Foundation by Nodin Cutfeet

    The Concept This week’s content is focused on an Indigeous platform that empowers creativity and self-expression through digital art and coding. Nodin highlighted within this talk that the system that they created focuses on compiling contributions across different learners. A “Peer-to-peer” knowledge transfer system. This point resonated quite well with me, majority of the technology…

  • Reflection: Talk on “datafication” and algorithmic decision-making

    Overview One of the most memorable points I retained from this talk is the concept of “datafication” how all of our services and our public service platforms are all now digitalized, by extension making all our inputs available as data points. The speaker argues that since there are more data, the algorithmic decision-making process becomes…

  • Reflection: BC Digital Learning Strategy Priority 1

    BC’s Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills compiled a list of strategies for supporting post-secondary systems with digital learning in BC. This is available at https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/post-secondary-education/institution-resources-administration/digital-learning-strategy. For this reflection I wanted to focus on a point that I think is the most important, modernization of Policies and Processes in education. This list covers 3…