Josh, I got to say your blogs are so aesthetically pleasing to look at, and I cannot believe you made that graphic on your own, its true art. I couldn’t agree more with your beginning statement, I to did not realize just how long eLearning, distance education, and online/blended education has been around in the K-12 context. It is pretty incredible to think that even back when there weren’t the same technological advances as today, teachers were still thinking of the best way to help their long-distance students to learn (teachers have been caring since day 1). It’s pretty incredible to think how far Canada has advanced from the brick and mortar classroom in only the past century, and it’s even more exciting to think how much further we can go. This; was a great blog Josh and, I am 100% going to steal your timeline.

Leona, from reading your blog, I feel as if I have re-learned this topic in a summarized form (which I guess is the point)! I love how you gave definitions of each of the learning theories and, now I am thinking for my next blog I may do the same! I really wish I could have experienced the live webinar with Dr. Barbour, Dr. LaBonte, and Dr. Roberts because I can only imagine how meaningful it was to this topic. However, I can’t agree more with your statement about “intention.” I feel that in the day and age where technology is seeming to take over our lives and teachers are getting frustrated too often thinking they are losing control over how they teach. I saw this happen to my dad when one of his favourite classroom year-end project had to be canceled because to him “it wasn’t possible with the technology they had access with” however like you said, “Ultimately, the technology you decide to use shouldn’t be the factor driving learning – it should be lead by you and your pedagogy.” (You)

HOLY Timm! I literally thought you had taken this feature image straight out of an education magazine, very impressive technological artwork skills! As discussed before in our annotations, I grew up in the K-12 system feeling the same way about online and distributed learning as being a “alternative” route or a “last chance” for students trying to get their diploma. It is an interesting point you make about “being surprised by the lack of digital technology used in elementary schools” because in some ways I can totally see where you are coming from. With the unlimited knowledge and resources online tools and technology gives us it seems like a privileged waste to not be using them in our schools. I remember distinctly your comment in our annotations about Bates saying that past learning theories are being made irrelevant by digital technology, and I couldn’t help but agree with your statement about 1. Disagreeing with the comment and 2. Arguing the fact that there is an element of fear that is involved in this thought.

Great blog as usual and I couldn’t’ help but feeling flattered looking at my name in your post J it’s amazing how much more we can learn when we work together (not to be cheesy but legit).