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Connections-based Learning: December 2014
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A blog dedicated to demonstrating Connections-based Learning in action. My Classroom on B.I.G. Sunday, 21 December 2014. What a change can do. My educational Everest was sitting in my classroom alongside my principal as my grade 7 students shared with me how they had changed the world. I t was project-based learning at its core. I share about what my students accomplished. My attempt at Elephant Toothpaste. I had no idea. In BC we have government exams in high school. In grade 10 they are worth 20% o...
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Connections-based Learning: July 2014
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A blog dedicated to demonstrating Connections-based Learning in action. My Classroom on B.I.G. Monday, 28 July 2014. Inking: The Undiscovered Country. I have a dream. A tech-agogy dream. (Just made that one up. It sounds like it could be the name of a Japanese internet café, but I'm considering it "a technology implementation that betters my pedagogy"). The dream isn't flashy. But it is something I have longed for. First Block: Math - Here is where paperless society meets UDL. Location to support leverag...
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Connections-based Learning: October 2014
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A blog dedicated to demonstrating Connections-based Learning in action. My Classroom on B.I.G. Friday, 10 October 2014. Projects that Change the World. I remember the day I made the switch from having my students do projects for me to having my students do projects for humanity. When I had explained this new kind of assignment, there was an incredulous look on many of my grade sevens’ faces: “You mean we can do something, really do something? It was like they were just waiting for permission. John W....
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5.1 Visual Literacy and S.J. - MDL4000 - Media and Digital Literacy
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MDL4000 - Media and Digital Literacy. 11 Me and Media. 12 Me and Media: Fun-damentals. 41 DS: Making Meaning. 42 Where are the stories? 51 Visual Literacy and S.J. 52 Visual Literacy and CC. 61 Creating with Purpose. 62 Creating - PSA. 71 Mobile and Learning. 81 Makers and Making. 91 Media - teacher and learner. 92 Media in teaching. 11 New Media and . 1 2 New Media and . 31 DS: Digging Deeper. 32 DS: Digging Deeper. 41 DS: Tools of the Trade. 42 DS: Tools of the Trade. 51 DS: Process and Plan. Activatin...
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Connections-based Learning: March 2015
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A blog dedicated to demonstrating Connections-based Learning in action. My Classroom on B.I.G. Sunday, 22 March 2015. Flipclass 2.0: It's not about you or your videos. In my previous #flipclass post, Four ways to make your flipclass awesome. I was pretty open about the need for much more work done on my videos and better communication with parents. In fact, I made four claims about how to make the #flippedlearning experience awesome:. 1) Make concise engaging videos. 4) Make a flipped class parent video.
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Connections-based Learning: What Relationships do for Learning
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A blog dedicated to demonstrating Connections-based Learning in action. My Classroom on B.I.G. Thursday, 9 July 2015. What Relationships do for Learning. No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship" - says Dr. James P. Comer, professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University. If you know anything about Dr. Comer, you would know that he worked with schools in low economic areas. Dr James P. Comer on Development, Relationships and Learning. Providing engaging activities and maintaining h...
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Connections-based Learning: February 2015
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A blog dedicated to demonstrating Connections-based Learning in action. My Classroom on B.I.G. Monday, 2 February 2015. Four ways to make your flipclass awesome. 1) Make concise engaging videos. My first videos were well set up for students who had carved out an hour or two of their time, sat down with a coffee (hot chocolate okay) and their workbook in hand, and poured through my super long drawn out videos finding all the nuggets contained within. Here is one of the first videos I made:. I flipped the ...
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Connections-based Learning: July 2015
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A blog dedicated to demonstrating Connections-based Learning in action. My Classroom on B.I.G. Friday, 24 July 2015. Diary of Some Not-so-wimpy Project-based Learners. There has been a story brewing for some time that I am just now finding how to share. It happened when I was teaching grade 7 last year. I had challenged my students to "Address an Issue". I share a bit about the experience in The Problem with Project-based Learning. Orphans and Widows in Ethiopia. The money will also be given to the widow...
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Connections-based Learning: No Grades: coming to a school near you
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A blog dedicated to demonstrating Connections-based Learning in action. My Classroom on B.I.G. Thursday, 2 January 2014. No Grades: coming to a school near you. Will be coming your way. Here, I compile info and thoughts to aid those like me who are pondering the question. Surrey schools try scrapping letter grades. Maple Ridge schools say Goodbye to A, B, and D. Calgary eliminates letter grades for students up to grade nine in an attempt to save children from failure. Ontario no-grade report card. Faring...
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Connections-based Learning: September 2014
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A blog dedicated to demonstrating Connections-based Learning in action. My Classroom on B.I.G. Wednesday, 17 September 2014. A Cheeky Look At How Tech Affects Education. I've read several posts on the ways tech is changing education. Here are a few:. 3 ways technology has changed education. Access, boundaries, communication. 4 ways technology has changed K-12 education. Collaboration, research, remote learning, prep. 5 ways technology has changed education. Sharing, apps, SM. 6 ways tech changes education.
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