DAVID WEES

Thoughts from a 21st century educator.

Learning Technologies: Selection, Design and Application (ETEC 565)

Reflection: ETEC 565 - Learning Technologies: Selection, Design and Application (elective course)

The purpose of this course was to act as an overview of a variety of different learning technologies.  We had to create a piece in an LMS, edit both audio, video, and image media, blog about our experiences, and practice our communication skills in both asynchronous and synchronous modes.  The practicality of this course was quite refreshing, with less emphasis on the theoretical, and more emphasis on how the various learning theories applied to specific technologies.



Artifact: Module Projects: Hands-on Assignments/Reflections

This is a Wordpress blog which includes each of the reflections I produced as part of my ETEC 565 exploration of different digital technologies. This was a great activity, and definitely one of the more useful parts of this course.



Artifact: Digital Story

This is the story of my son's early life in Thailand where we lived from when he was just about one year old until he was nearly three years old. It was a fun project to do, and I think we will be able to show it to him to help him remember his time in Thailand.



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Quotations

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialised abilities for thinking about a variety of things

Lev Vygotsky

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

Lewis Carroll

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Roger Lewin

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Jean Piaget

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

Howard Gardner

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

C.S. Lewis

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain