Who am I?
By profession, I am an educator. On the whole, I am a life-long learner who tries to challenge myself to keep learning. I have been teaching since I was a teenager and have been interested in technology since desk-top computers barely emerged in the public schools. During the second year of my undergraduate degree at UBC, the library set up computers where we could use email. The World Wide Web was not even fully in HTML. Teaching for over twenty years and watching technology explode in its advancement has been incredible to witness. I think the next wave of technology is coming and it will make things we need access to, in daily living, more instantaneous than ever. I’m sure I won’t live to experience this “Sci-Fi” idea of artificial intelligence but it sure is fun to imagine and propose some possibilities that can enhance the well-being of humanity.
I'd like to note that my most recent experience with life-saving, wearable technology was (and still is,) when my rescue pup went into Diabetic Ketoacidosis. It was a super challenging time since he was in the hospital for a week and the resources necessary to improve his life was substantial. The after math of his care involved attaching a Freestyle Libre blood glucose monitor every two weeks, for a period of six months, to his little body and monitory his sugar levels 24/7. It was a very significant learning curve for me and it caused me to be very thankful for a wearable monitor that even my dog could wear to improve his life. Billy is in the photo above and you will notice that he has one eye. He lost one of his eyes due to complications with his diabetes. This all being said, he lives well, is a very happy and pampered dog and occasionally, we still use the diabetic monitor to help him.
In the near and farther future, I hope to continue to participate in educational technology and use it to explore topics in Critical Education, Indigeneity and Decolonization.
By profession, I am an educator. On the whole, I am a life-long learner who tries to challenge myself to keep learning. I have been teaching since I was a teenager and have been interested in technology since desk-top computers barely emerged in the public schools. During the second year of my undergraduate degree at UBC, the library set up computers where we could use email. The World Wide Web was not even fully in HTML. Teaching for over twenty years and watching technology explode in its advancement has been incredible to witness. I think the next wave of technology is coming and it will make things we need access to, in daily living, more instantaneous than ever. I’m sure I won’t live to experience this “Sci-Fi” idea of artificial intelligence but it sure is fun to imagine and propose some possibilities that can enhance the well-being of humanity.
I'd like to note that my most recent experience with life-saving, wearable technology was (and still is,) when my rescue pup went into Diabetic Ketoacidosis. It was a super challenging time since he was in the hospital for a week and the resources necessary to improve his life was substantial. The after math of his care involved attaching a Freestyle Libre blood glucose monitor every two weeks, for a period of six months, to his little body and monitory his sugar levels 24/7. It was a very significant learning curve for me and it caused me to be very thankful for a wearable monitor that even my dog could wear to improve his life. Billy is in the photo above and you will notice that he has one eye. He lost one of his eyes due to complications with his diabetes. This all being said, he lives well, is a very happy and pampered dog and occasionally, we still use the diabetic monitor to help him.
In the near and farther future, I hope to continue to participate in educational technology and use it to explore topics in Critical Education, Indigeneity and Decolonization.