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…
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…
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…