MET 2019 Summer Institute on Digital Games, Learning and Pedagogy was a roaring success
The 2019 MET summer institute offered 50 MET students an intensive opportunity to explore the pedagogies that support playing and making digital games for the classroom. “I’ve told many people about the course and will be sharing a lot of what I learned with my colleagues when I’m back at work.” Digital games – the […]
MET Student Wins Best Presentation Award at 2019 International Conference
Current MET student Jamie Dimitra Ashton attended the 15th annual European Ecological Foundation conference, ‘Ecology Across Borders‘ in Lisbon, Portugal, this summer, with travel fund support from the MET program. Her accepted paper presentation was an adaptation of a course project Jamie developed while completing the MET course ETEC 530, and focussed on constructivism in […]
MET-hosted Lecture on Technology, Inclusion and Ability, March 5th 2019
On March 5th, 2019, MET hosted a public lecture by distinguished Visiting Lecturer Dr. Heidi Janz and UBC’s Dr. Michelle Stack on questions relating to technology, inclusion and ability in classrooms and in society.
2019 MET Summer Institute: Digital Games, Learning & Pedagogy
Explore the pedagogies that support playing and making digital games for the classroom. Available for credit only | ETEC 565 S Digital games – the creative medium of the 21st century – are played on phones, tablets and dedicated desktops and consoles by millions of adults and children worldwide. They are also the single fastest […]
MET-hosted lecture: Quality Education and the Role of Digital Technology in Nepal, January 17th 2019
This talk was co-sponsored with the UBC Himalaya Program, the UBC Centre for India & South Asia Research (CISAR), the Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED), UBC Language Sciences, and the Nepal Library Foundation. Technological innovations have revolutionized the ways we communicate, exchange knowledge and ideas, and deliver goods and services. However, this progress […]