Computer scientist and educator. Creator of ChessCraft. Scientific programmer at Environment Canada.
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In my previous post I talked about the McGill education students that cannot calculate an average, but I glossed over talking about the lecturer for that course. We've all heard about bad professors, but I have proof this professor was beyond merely bad. This story also includes what happened when …
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This is a story about McGill education students that cannot calculate an average, and the professor who admitted he didn't care. Finally, I explain why this is important.
I hope that by telling this embarrassing story I will contribute to raising the standards at McGill and for Quebec teacher certification …
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There were some concerns about my aggressive approach in my post where I complain about how poor the education technology courses are at McGill university. Before making noise, did I talk to my professors? What about the department, or the dean?
Well that's exactly what I did for two years …
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Get ready to go on a magical journey where we discover just how old a "modern" textbook on education technology is. It says it's published in 2012 but don't let that fool you! Here it is:
This is the textbook currently used by McGill's "EDPT 200 -Integrating Educational Technology in …
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Before I put this post online I sent a draft to the professor, Sam Bruzzese, so he'd have a chance to respond. He did!
Seeing as I brought these issues to his attention while I took the course, I originally made a list of possible reasons …
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Is this a real exam, or a fiction fabricated by someone frustrated with the bachelor of education program? You decide.
More seriously, here are some details if you're interested. The parody exam spawned from my frustration that McGill university in Montreal (which is supposedly one of Canada's top schools …
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Briefly: The Quebec Education Plan (QEP) is a bloated 517 page document filled with ambiguous crap and buzzwords. Education professors in Quebec seem to be coerced by some mystical force to include the QEP in their university courses. But each new time I'm forced to analyze, my criticisms of it …