Hi Everyone! My name is Aiden and I am a fourth year computer science major here at UVIC finishing up my degree at the end of this year. I was born and raised in North Vancouver, where I grew up skiing the north shore mountains and developed a love for the outdoors. In my free…
This week’s focus on critical thinking and equity in digital spaces made me take a step back from how I’ve been using technology, especially AI, and think more about what’s happening underneath it. Comparing this topic to my inquiry project, a lot of my attention has been on utilizing AI tools to improve resume structure,…
Looking back on this inquiry project, it started off with a simple project pitch: What AI tools could improve resumes. As a computer science student, it felt like a practical problem to solve as I step into learning more about the professional workplace and job application process. As the project developed, it became a lot…
Over the past few weeks, I’ve become more interested in how digital literacy extends beyond just using technology and into understanding how information, data, and ownership actually functions for modern systems. As someone studying computer science and learning more about how companies operate in a data-driven environment, I’ve started to think more critically about who…
As part of our inquiry into AI-created resumes, portfolios, and job searching in today’s world, one of our options to further our inquiry was to meet with industry professionals. Our pod had the chance to speak with an industry professional who shared a lot of practical insight into hiring, interviewing, and how the tech landscape…
This week, while working through topics around digital literacy, technology, and communication, our group happened to meet with our professor to talk about our inquiry project. During that conversation, we briefly touched on the SCIPAB framework as a way to structure ideas more clearly, especially when explaining problems and solutions. It wasn’t the main focus…
For our inquiry project, our pod is exploring how AI tools can help students build stronger technical portfolios and navigate the modern job search. After outlining our inquiry direction in the first post, this week I moved into the experimentation phase with my pod. My goal was to test how different large language models handle…
In this section, you will be introduced to the foundational interface and logic of Microsoft Excel. We’ve designed this module to ensure the “how-to” of the software doesn’t block you from the “why” of the financial analysis. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this section, you will be able to navigate the Excel interface and…
Learning Support This learning resource focuses on introducing project evaluation and financial modeling to Grade 12 students who may have little prior experience with financial analysis or spreadsheet tools. To support this, we adopt a constructivist and inquiry-based learning approach, where students actively build their understanding by working through financial scenarios rather than simply memorizing…
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot more about what it actually means to use AI “professionally,” and how different that feels compared to how I’ve used it as a student. Before this course and our inquiry project, AI tools like ChatGPT were mostly just something I’d use to explain concepts, help…