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In spite.
I’ve been taking ETEC 530 this semester at UBC, also known as Constructivist Strategies in E-Learning and the foundational readings are all of epistemological pursuits of knowledge. Which, for obvious reasons is critical to understanding constructivist strategies, but it is also a sharp reminder of how much I hate Western…
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Pruning the garden.
The digital garden, to be specific. A few months ago, I finally figured out how to get my Obsidian vault online without having to pay $8 USD a month to sync it to the internets. There is no specific reason for this other than for it to exist on the…
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Are forums a critical aspect of reading enjoyment?
I’ve been looking for alternatives to Goodreads for a long time now. I found Storygraph, but to be honest, I couldn’t make it stick. As much as I hated entering my password into that Amazon auth screen, I kept going back to Goodreads. I needed those star reviews, despite having…
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I spoke at NaraJALT’s conference about digital game based learning…
It’s been a hectic couple of weeks to say in the least. I wasn’t too concerned about it until I realized I was stewing in low grade stress the entire time. But it’s all done now and my brothers are also visiting from Germany and Canada so now our dog…
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On action research in the EFL sphere in Japan,
In the EFL space action research can be the most effective way to tackle barriers to not only socio-economic but also cultural interpretations. It also allows us to critically consider how to effectively overcome these barriers in order to improve ELL for students from different walks of life. In Chapter…
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A comparison between LLM search methods and UBC Library’s search tools.
Overview For Task 1, we were assigned to make a comparative report charting our research methodologies and the differences in resource outputs between LLM chatbots such as ChatGPT and traditional digital search engines such as UBC’s Summon database. Premise The question that all the keywords were derived out of was…
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Some updates.
It’s been a while since I’ve written about any work pertaining to Kiku or Ed/Ed-tech in general. Added responsibilities beside, there’s been a fairly steep decline in my motivation to keep up the same level of insane productivity at work. There are a few reasons for this. 1. A lack…
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