Mobility in Blended Environments

This is an analysis that recounts my personal experience–and growth–with mobility in the classroom. During my ongoing and evolving initiative of redesigning courses from traditional face-to-face lectures to blended constructivist environments–mobile and wireless technologies have advanced enough to make them affordable for most Korean university students. These technologies also, as shown in the accompanying video, provide an excellent way to implement such affordances as collaboration, privacy, and a more democratic decision making process in higher education.

Thought Papers on Learning Theory

Because I was able to critically evaluate and draw logical, clear, objective, and well supported conclusions about learning theories and relevant literatures, I not only earned high marks, but had a good time doing so! 

Please tap or click on “Play” to learn the reason it is the 2nd artifact for Key Competency #1:

My Final Discussion Forum Post

For my final contribution to the ETEC 511 (Foundations of Educational Technology) discussion forum on the spirituality of technology, it was crucial that I find a way to satisfy my own intrinsic need for deep reflection and clarity of thought in this very important and personal topic. To achieve this, I did some serious soul-searching about my past and present spiritual state of being, sought additional wisdom offered by some well respected thought leaders (like those shown in the videos below) and worked in the much more dynamic realm of multimedia instead of just printed text. Some of the questions that I attempt to answer include: “Can we have spirituality without technology? Can we have technology without spirituality? Is the ideal form of spirituality that without technology?”

 The video below is one that I produced, with a few relevant clips inserted and interwoven with my own thoughts.

Correction

My understanding of life and reality has evolved further since making the spirituality/technology video–and there are certain aspects of what I said that I now regard as inaccurate–especially in the segment where I discuss Feng and Petrina’s reference to secularism no longer seeming tenable . Now that I have taken time to revisit their manuscript and reflect more “SOULfully” , I realize that they were not actually declaring secularism as untenable. Rather, they were citing it as one example of many schools of thought in the realm of spirituality. Isn’t it wonderful how human thought is capable of evolving?

Three Transformational Thought Leaders

In the following trio of videos, three of the world’s most eminent scholars present their views on key aspects of life in this technologically super-charged 21st Century. Professor Richard Dawkins–with his focus on genes, memes, and internet memes–helps us to understand how human culture is evolving . Professor Michael Wesch provides an excellent anthropological perspective on YouTube and other Web 2.0 technologies , and Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law professor, shows how outdated copyright laws are in increasing need of revision . They are included here as a small symbolic sampling of the many new concepts that I began to grapple with in the MET Program. It was only by grappling with their ideas–and those of other MET students–that I was able to finally develop enough confidence to attempt producing such a personal and reflective video like the one above.

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