Yesterday I handed in my last assignments for my last course in my Master of Educational Technology degree through the University of British Columbia. While I won’t graduate until May, it marks the end of an era – just shy of six years I have been plucking away at courses through UBC, first with myContinue reading “What now, brown cow?”
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Why I Made Ed Tech Specialists Compare Search Results for My Professional Development Session on New Materialism
As a teacher-librarian, I’m constantly making decisions about which databases to subscribe to, which search tools to recommend, which encyclopedias to point students toward. These decisions often get framed as “neutral” by just providing access to information, offering students “the right resources.” But are they? This question started nagging at me during IP 2 whereContinue reading “Why I Made Ed Tech Specialists Compare Search Results for My Professional Development Session on New Materialism”
What do LLMs tell me to worry about?
I went a bit overboard. I started looking at two LLMs and then I just kept on adding one more to the list and then I ended up with a 20+ minute video and hours worth of unused footage and a look at how Meta AI, ChatGPT (v. o3), Deepseek, and Copilot handle the sameContinue reading “What do LLMs tell me to worry about?”
Media Convergence
This week I chose to focus my attention on Media Convergence, and you can view my MindMap on the topic here! Below, you can watch as Bovine Morgan takes you on a journey through his many thoughts about the topic.
But Can You Use It?
What is usability? Perhaps it is simpler to view usability through the lens of a stone age technology. The wheel proliferated because it is infinitely usable. To borrow from Issa and Isaias’ usability criteria (2015, p. 33), the wheel was easily understood and adopted across various cultures (learnability). It could be adapted for use inContinue reading “But Can You Use It?”
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