Antonia Macris is an MA student in Educational Technology at Concordia University and has an interdisciplinary background with graduate degrees in Environment, Public Relations and Communications Management. Her passions aim to intersect the three fields around the topic of global environmental education and sustainable behaviour change communication across corporate, national and international sectors. Antonia has previous work and volunteer experience with UN Environment and other non-profit and youth organizations, and currently works in Higher Education in developing student engagement events programming with experiential learning opportunities.
In her talk, Antonia will be presenting her research on the topic of ‘Applications of Emerging Wearable Technologies: From K-12 to Higher Education,’ in examining technological dependency and the shift from technologies as detached tools to an extension of ourselves. Recent behaviour changes in information seeking and consumption have led to increased corporate investments in wearable technology. Scholarly trends will be used to shed light on the functions and applications of these technologies in pedagogy and the classroom, touching on elements of cyber security, technological distractions and institutional systemic strategies for support.
