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Digital Learning in BC – Are We Ready For Another Pandemic?

After reading the BC Post-Secondary Digital Learning Strategy, I started thinking about what being prepared for online learning really means. After COVID forced everyone to switch to online learning with no warning, the province assembled a group of experts and teachers to build a long-term plan to improve digital learning. Even though a lot of…

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Final Update: Can YouTube Be Legitimate Education?

As I get to the end of this inquiry project, I can draw the conclusion that YouTube can work as a valid educational method of learning complicated skills, specifically for project based learning. My experience with Blender over the years proves that valuable knowledge can be developed with the help of open video learning. But…

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Major Limitations of YouTube as Education

(Nov. 20, 2025) YouTube has its weaknesses in education despite the strong points talked about in the past weekly updates. It has no official curriculum, which means learners can accidentally skip beginner steps and develop bad or inefficient work habits. In the example of Blender, tutorials quickly become outdated as new updates come out. There…

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Learning Through Trial, Error, and Failure

(Nov. 11, 2025) It’s really uncommon to have a tutorial work on the first attempt. The differences in the version of the software, the performance of the computer, and project settings meant that I had troubleshoot all the time. Most of my most productive learning experiences were not through watching videos, but correcting broken scenes,…

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How Do Learners Decide Which Tutorials Are Trustworthy?

(Oct. 24, 2025) There are thousands of tutorials online for whatever a viewer wishes to learn. It won’t take too long for learners to understand that not all content is equal. People skip through steps, or will label videos “beginner friendly” yet walk through advanced concepts, etc. And there was no real way to avoid…

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Can YouTube Actually Teach Complex Skills?

(Oct. 16, 2025) My initial question in this investigation was whether YouTube could be considered as a valid learning environment to a difficult tool. Learning Blender is often seen as a big learning curve because of its huge interface, shortcuts, and technical complexity. Normally, people gain knowledge on software like this either in college or…

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COVID and Online Learning

COVID and online learning hit just before the end of elementary school, right before I entered high school. Looking back, my experience matches what Dr. Valerie Irvine’s brief described as emergency remote learning rather than real online education. Since there was little to no structure or regulation, it became easy for students (like me) to…

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Datafication and AI

After watching the talk about Datafication presented by Dr. Bonnie Stewart, I reflected on how much of my life is being transformed into data. Every single google search and click is a part of the system that earns money off of my activity. Although always knowing that our data was being tracked and shared, it…