Category: Reflection

As someone who has been working from home for around 3 years now, I wanted to take a look at the resources provided by UVic and reflect on my own Ergonomics. I do own an anti-bluelight set-up, standing desk and auto dimming monitor light, so I’m quite excited to see what I can learn and…

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…

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…

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…

The concept of inquiry During the talk with Jeff Hopkins on Inquiry-based learning, I ended up reflecting on my approach to studying and learning new skills. Personal interest and curiously has always been my main drive for learning, Jeff expanded it by framing the questions that I would ask myself rather than focusing on topics.…

Reviewing Jesse’s talk gave me quite a bit of insight into technology and privacy. For this reflection I do want to focus on the point that resonated the most with me: how technological evolution improved our connections but breaks down our privacy walls. This made me think about modern networking platforms like LinkedIn, specifically the…