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Teacher candidates learn to create classroom websites: Best practice for Bachelor of Education programs
Jennifer Laffier
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 3304–3309
This paper reviews how within a Bachelor of Education program teacher candidates learned to create classroom websites. Teacher based websites were developed in the ‘Human Development and Learning’ course where theories of human development and...
Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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Building a sense of community for students and parents through classroom websites
Jennifer Laffier
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 1059–1068
Abstract: This paper reviews how teacher websites can be used to build a sense of community for students and parents. Ways in which this can be accomplished are presented in sample websites created by teacher candidates in a Bachelor of Education...
Topics: Implementation Examples & Issues, Social & Cultural Issues, Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning
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On-line learning: Why is it a source of stress for some post-secondary students?
Jennifer Laffier
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2019 (Nov 04, 2019) pp. 306–315
College and university students experience the transition to post-secondary education in different ways. For some it is an exciting time, but for others the transition may be more difficult to manage. New post-secondary students are dealing with...
Topics: Teacher education and technology integration, Learner-centered, and self-directed learning, E-learning/E-training
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Exploring Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions of Bullying Through Critical Digital Literacies Lesson Design
Janette Hughes; Jennifer Laffier
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1578–1588
In this paper the authors share how they prepare preservice teachers to teach about bullying through Young Adult Literature and a critical digital literacies approach. The aim is to encourage beginning teachers to think critically about their...
Topics: Equity & Social Justice, English Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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What Future Teachers Think of ‘Creativity’ and What This Means for Their Future Teaching Practice
Jennifer Laffier; Janette Hughes; Diana Petrarca
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1140–1148
Creativity and creative thinking have been identified as crucial to learning by educators (Fullan & Langworthy, 2014; OME, 2016). In the Ontario Ministry of Education’s 2016 discussion paper, 21st Century Competencies, creativity was identified in a ...
Topics: Creativity
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Co-Constructing Knowledge Through mOOC Design and Development
Laura Morrison; Diana Petrarca; Janette Hughes; Jennifer Laffier
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 993–998
The realm of e-learning has evolved significantly over the past twenty years. Most recently, the MOOC, or massive, open, online course has become popular in educational settings and beyond. The main appeal of MOOCs is the emphasis on open...
Topics: Internet, Government, Graduate Education & Faculty Development, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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Addressing bullying through critical making
Janette Hughes; Laura Morrison; Ami Mamolo; Jennifer Laffier; Suzanne de Castell
British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 50, No. 1 (January 2019) pp. 309–325
This paper explores how maker pedagogies helped middle school students develop transferable competencies, such as creativity, problem solving, self‐directed learning and citizenship skills. We offer an in‐depth look at how purposeful or critical...