Welcome to Advancing through Technology

As I work through my Master’s research, I’ve real­ized it makes more sense to focus specif­i­cal­ly on Eng­lish Lan­guage Learn­ers (ELLs) rather than try­ing to address the broad­er cat­e­go­ry of diverse learn­ers. This deci­sion comes from my expe­ri­ences in the … Read More

The Chal­lenges of Nar­row­ing My Project Focus As I work through the com­plex­i­ties of my Mas­ter of Edu­ca­tion project, I’ve found nar­row­ing the focus both excit­ing and chal­leng­ing. My goal is to cre­ate an inclu­sive, tech­nol­o­­gy-enhanced mid­dle school wood­work class­room … Read More

  In today’s class­room, dig­i­tal lit­er­a­cy is an essen­tial part of the learn­ing expe­ri­ence. The BC Dig­i­tal Lit­er­a­cy Frame­work out­lines six key com­pe­ten­cies that aim to equip stu­dents with the knowl­edge and skills they need to thrive in a dig­i­tal … Read More

Read­ing Valerie Irvine’s arti­cle The Land­scape of Merg­ing Modal­i­ties (2020) gave me a new per­spec­tive on how far online learn­ing modal­i­ties have come since my ear­ly expe­ri­ences with “dis­tance edu­ca­tion.” In the arti­cle, Irvine explores sev­er­al emerg­ing modal­i­ties through­out the … Read More

After fin­ish­ing our sum­mer course and only hav­ing a month of hol­i­days, I’m not quite ready to dive back into school life, whether as a teacher or a stu­dent in my Mas­ters pro­gram. Right now, I feel com­plete­ly over­whelmed, like … Read More

“Tech­nol­o­gy-Enhanced Wood­work Project and Course Design: Plan­ning Through Learn­ing Design and Edu­ca­tion­al The­o­ry.” Wel­come to my pre­sen­ta­tion, which accom­pa­nies my research paper on “Tech­nol­o­­gy-Enhanced Wood­work Project and Course Design: Plan­ning Through Learn­ing Design and Edu­ca­tion­al The­o­ry.” The essen­tial goal of … Read More

Here is my Learn­ing Activ­i­ty Design Pro­pos­al sub­mit­ted for the final project in this course. BBar­ran­ti 565 Assign­ment 2_ Learn­ing Activ­i­ty Design Pro­pos­al

Hav­ing expe­ri­enced both face-to-face and online learn­ing envi­ron­ments, I’ve gained insight into the pros and cons of each approach. My online jour­ney began as a mid­dle school wood­work teacher dur­ing the COVID-19 shut­down, and now online as a stu­dent as … Read More

In this course we looked into var­i­ous learn­ing the­o­ries (behav­iourism, cog­ni­tivism, con­struc­tivism, social learn­ing, con­nec­tivism) with­in the con­text of teach­ing. When asked to describe my own teach­ing prac­tices and sub­se­quent stu­dent learn­ing with­in these the­o­ries, and my belief around how … Read More

My best struc­tured learn­ing expe­ri­ence? I began my teach­ing career in 2001 and have thus had too many learn­ing expe­ri­ences than I can list, or even remem­ber! For 18 years I have pri­mar­i­ly been a Wood­work teacher and due to … Read More