Ruby's Grad School Blog

  Source: 21K School   Online education is arguably the trend of education technology of the moment. It is the first trend listed in Liz Miller Lee's 4 Innovative Trends in K-12 Education . When I was attending junior college in the 00s, the concept of taking classes online was new. Now, in the 2020s, it is essential. Now that this accessible means of education has been expanded larger than its ever been, it is difficult and undesirable to go back. Sources for this presentation include: Apathy in online education: [North Sports Final Edition] by David McGrath Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, Vol. 17, Nos. 1 & 2, 2015 "DePaul Students demand refunds: Suits claim shift to online classes 'decreased value' of education" by Elyssa Cherney  "Managing large classes in virtual teaching: experiences of university teachers in Ghana during COVID‑19" by Inusah Salifu and Usman Kojo Abonyi   "Students with learning disabilities face additional virtual lear...

 This week we're discussing frameworks for technology integration in education. Of the frameworks discussed, I find SAMR and Triple E to be the most intuitive. I elected to dive a little deeper into SAMR.   Reading the swimming pool analogy on Jaclyn B. Stevensons' website , I found the analogy a little hard to follow. However, the embedded video made it a little more clear for me. The SAMR model is a matter of progression, starting with technology merely replicating what can be done without technology, and "ending" (so to speak) with technology opening up entirely new possibilities. One such possibility that Youki Terada puts forth is inviting the author of a book to virtually chat with a class after said class has finished the reading. The library I work at was able to do something like this a few months ago, in which Leah Johnson - the author of You Should See Me in a Crown - paid the teen area of our library a visit via Zoom, allowing her to chat with the teens ...