Project Retrospective – Making Useful Tool ETEC 511 2024W2 Team 1 is a group of young, vibrant, all girls team led by Elaine Lee. Our project is to design and create a resource-rich website for students from kindergarten to Grade 5, tailored specifically for parents in British Columbia to provide a parent’s guide to elementary maths mastery and committed to align with the BC New Curriculum. We kicked off project on Feb 1, 2024 by initial brainstorming via Zoom meeting to discuss project topic, medium, target audience and arranged a session with Keri to discuss the initial thoughts and topics we have. To provide easy access for all members across time zone, geography, different availability, we use Google docs to share 1) Meeting Agenda 2) Group project proposal draft and amendment. We use Wix to create the website, and Genially to do the learning material, with printables including work sheets and YouTube resources attached for offline further discussion and...
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Tipping Point: A Critical Case Study ETEC 511 Winter 2 2023 Elaine Jiang One significant technology migration for 21st century is the replacement of pencils and papers, notebooks with keyboards, laptops and tablets. As we stand at the crossroad by witnessing the brewing of Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution, the emergence of AI wearables as the next evolution in technology, potentially superseding laptops, is much anticipated. These advancements have the potential to revolutionize education, displacing conventional teaching tools and reshaping pedagogy in the process. COVID-19 saw accelerated change of educational technology. With the emergence of ChatGPT and SORA, the latest revolutionary product from Open AI which enables text to video conversion with just a click of mouse, the content generation becomes faster, easier, more accessible for educators and parents. This study focuses on the discussion of pros and cons of ed...