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Reflective Practice: December 2013
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013. Changes, Challenges and reCharging. The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.". I'm officially settled (and so is my family). No more excuses or long winded explanations I'm going to eat my biggest frog. Wrote the blog post, A Sea of Ideas. Then a couple of things happened this week to bring me back - the Hour of Code. While these are two ver...
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Reflective Practice: Rethinking Digital Citizenship
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Friday, February 06, 2015. Kids are growing up on a digital playground and no one is on recess duty. I recently had the privilege of facilitating a PYP digital citizenship workshop. And thus an opportunity to examine this concept at some length. As we explored and discussed issues related to digital citizenship, some questions emerged. How is digital citizenship different than citizenship? How is digital identity different than identity? How is our digital life different than our life? And engage in a fe...
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Reflective Practice: Modelling a Mindset: An essential element of technology literacy
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. Modelling a Mindset: An essential element of technology literacy. Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right.". Technology provides new opportunities for teaching and learning that were previously not possible and are just downright 'cool'. I love exploring possibilities and seeing how my students might utilise new technologies to enhance their learning. I've come to realise however that my own enthusiasm can, at times, be a double-edged sword. Very keen to ...
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Reflective Practice: March 2013
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Sunday, March 24, 2013. The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed - it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions. We were most fortunate to have educational consultant, Kath Murdoch. Genius Hour is a time ...
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Resources - Digital Citizenship PYP Workshop
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An Experiment with Ditching the Central Idea. Tuesday, 12 December 2014. Wednesdays from 8pm – 9pm (Gulf Standard Time) (UTC 4). I’ve heard that you’ve experimented with teaching without a Central Idea. Could you explain how you heard about this idea? Our PYP Coordinator, Jessica Dalton, had told us about a thought-provoking article she had just read by Vivian on Ditching the Central Idea. Vivian had attended a conference with Lynn Erickson. Share the Central Idea with students. Ya, tell me about it!
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Reflective Practice: November 2012
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Thursday, November 29, 2012. To be truly educated, a student must also make connections across the disciplines, discover ways to integrate the separate subjects, and ultimately relate what they learn to life. To better understand where we are in. As a part of our unit investigations, students have worked collaboratively to create a huge timeline spanning over 4 millennia. We began this mathematical inquiry be discussing what we already know about some of the words associated with time:. Years and a mill.
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Reflective Practice: April 2012
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Saturday, April 28, 2012. Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. Recently, while browsing through the happenings at ISTE. I came across a link to tell My Technology Story. Being interested in the ways in which technology are driving change in education I obviously clicked and was taken to a form with two questions:. How has technology made you a more effective teacher or administrator? How has technology made you a more effective teacher or administrator?
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Reflective Practice: January 2014
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014. Personal Passion Project: Let the quest begin! Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st Century. I have been exploring ideas around the transformation of education through gamification for a couple of years now and so I am excited to finally have found something to really support this in my teaching and learning. In a nutshell, 3D Game Lab. Used digital learning menus. Or passion projects; and created Edmodo. And began to explore. I loved it! Mind Shift: ...
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Reflective Practice: February 2015
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. Modelling a Mindset: An essential element of technology literacy. Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right.". Technology provides new opportunities for teaching and learning that were previously not possible and are just downright 'cool'. I love exploring possibilities and seeing how my students might utilise new technologies to enhance their learning. I've come to realise however that my own enthusiasm can, at times, be a double-edged sword. Very keen to ...
