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Is Collaboration More Than Group Work?
http://biztechnologysolutions.com/it/collaboration/ Educational research throughout the 20th century focused on learning through an individualistic approach. Learning happened on a personal level, all...
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A Teacher’s Defence Mechanism
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/281052832970696479/ “The recognition of the importance of context suggested that the unit of analysis for understanding learning had to be larger than the individual...
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Conceptual Changes Needed
https://sjohart.wordpress.com/tag/changing-ways-of-thinking/ Before we began our shadow measuring experiment, I had the students predict when their shadows would be the biggest throughout the day. The...
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The More you Learn, the More There is to Learn
http://buddhismguide.org/teachers-for-learning-or-leaning/ In the article Principled Practical Knowledge, Bereiter brought forth a new theory in the learning sciences that I was unfamiliar with. He...
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So You Want to Integrate Technology Into Your Lessons?
http://iteach-and-ilearn.blogspot.ca/2013/10/nine-things-schools-should-consider.html As part of my master’s program, I had a group task that had to tackle an aspect of design based learning. My group...
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Hook Your Students Through Video App Smashing
http://ipad4schools.org/2014/04/19/why-app-smash/ I am always looking for new ways to “hook” students and make them excited about learning a new topic or unit. As the school year is coming closer to...
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The Best Teachers Teach from the Heart
http://jwalkinguphill.blogspot.ca/2012/04/love-see-teach.html Family orientation is one of my favourite days of work. Besides the fact that I sometimes feel like a monotonous robot, I love meeting my...
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Who Knew 9 Year Olds Would Love to Tweet?
For the past year I have solidly become an addict of twitter to build a professional network, and have experienced first hand the great abilities of it, the connections one can make, and the endless...
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Inspiring Student Questioning
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/10/for-students-why-the-question-is-more-important-than-the-answer/ Sometimes I forget what the first week of school is like; the endless questions, the...
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The Power of Creativity
Yesterday was International Dot Day and my class eagerly participated in the event. We began the morning by reading the story, The Dot, by Peter Reynolds. We discussed what the book meant, and the...
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Coding: The Next Generation
“We live in a world that is changing more rapidly than ever before. Today’s children will face a continual stream of new issues and unexpected challenges in the future. Many things that they learn...
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Is Failing Worth it? A Student’s Perception
Last week during class, I was working through a Rachel’s Challenge lesson with my students that was all about goal setting. We discussed goals they have set in the past, long term and short term goals...
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What is Authentic Learning?
https://learningconnections.wordpress.com/tag/authentic-learning/ As part of my master’s course, my group is conducting an online project to learn more about authentic learning and what it means. As...
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#authenticlearning
In one of my master’s courses, we were given the task to create an online learning project. My group decide to create a blog where we share our learning experiences, and also planned to organize a...
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Do Schools Allow Kids to be Kids?
A couple of weeks ago, a colleague sent me an article from Upworthy about a new kind of kindergarten design at a school in Tokyo (link to full article). The premise of the design is that it takes into...
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Tech, Tech, and More Tech
http://aiesec.ca/blog/millennials-technology-workplace/ Each school year, as I begin planning my days and units I am amazed at the changes and progression of technology. Last year, I was excited to use...
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Could 9 Year Olds Rule the World?
On the first day of school, I wanted to start the afternoon off by showing my students an inspirational child in which they could relate to, and who better than Kid President? While playing the video...
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Wild About Reading
As part of our school initiative on literacy this year, we dove into examining the book Reading in the Wild by Donalyn Miller and Susan Kelley, as it’s purpose is to instil lifelong reading habits in...
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Adventures in a Classroom Library
During the last year, I had a class filled of readers. Any chance they got, they were delved into a novel, picture book, fact book, anything that they could get their hands on. As I watched them riffle...
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Do Students Only Learn?
The other day in class, my students were completing a word association noun and verb activity. Several nouns were provided to them, and they needed to add an interesting verb that would fit nicely with...
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