For my creative project, I have designed a piece of educational technology that will make it easier and more efficient to succeed academically. It is a mobile phone application for the purpose of improving the process for students in need of academic coaching to find and connect with available tutors in a faster, cheaper, and … More Root Tutoring: Connect and Succeed
The education system has long been overdue for an update. Many systems in place, especially in public schools, are years behind in efficiency and can be slow to assimilate new technologies that can help in organization, learning, and engagement. Since my time as an elementary school student, however, I have witnessed first-hand as technology slowly … More Education Technology: Implementation and Applications
Abbott, Judy A. and Saundra E. Faris. “Integrating Technology into Preservice Literacy Instructions: A survey of Elementary Education Students’ Attitudes toward Computers”. Journal of Research on Computing in Education, Volume 33, 2000 – Issue 2, February 24, 2014, Pages 149-161, Taylor & Francis Online, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08886504.2000.10782306 As technology is being integrated into education programs more and … More Annotated Bibliography
The Leapfrog Leapster came out a little bit after my time, but I remember it as one of the first “gaming consoles” designed to be educational. Since then, there have many developments and efforts to come up with innovative ways to use technology in education. I do believe there is value in hard copy text … More Personal Essay: Edtech and the Next Generation
In the so-called “post-smartphone era,” many experts believe that augmented reality is going to be the next impact development in the technology market. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft revealed the new version of their augmented reality headset, the HoloLens. However, they changed their approach in how they are marketing it. Instead of … More Augmented Reality: Microsoft HoloLens
For my semester long project, I have chosen the topic of education technology. We have seen many developments in this area recently in all levels of school from elementary up through college. As technology continues to improve, it continues to be implemented into our schools systems. I think it is a very interesting topic to … More Final Project Proposal
I have decided to follow the Wall Street Journal for my news source for the semester. I chose this specific source because I have found that it contains the most relevant articles and resources to my interests all across the board, and usually does a pretty good job on keeping an unbiased perspective when discussing … More Wireless Internet – It’s Like Oxygen
Welcome to Tommy’s Bahama. I have taken one computer science class in my life so my computer programming skills are limited to drawing basic geometric shapes and using a code editor as a calculator to solve algebraic equations that I could’ve done in my head. Creating a website from scratch wasn’t quite within my capabilities, … More Take a Break from Boring Projects
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