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Is Homework Equitable?
I’ve read a lot lately about equitable access to technology. Not equality – equity – with regards to availability at home. Some families have no internet, some have slow internet and some have top...
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Interpreting Curriculum
(http://www.chroniclebooks.com/landing-pages/duckrabbit/downloads.html) In this post I would like to share some personal experiences regarding our preconceived notion of what curriculum is. While...
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NO, Not Everyone Needs to Code! #edchat
I began the day yesterday with a conversion from someone I admire and consider a great edu-twitter friend and #onted colleague. Andrew, as he often does, threw a tweet in my direction suggesting the...
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Collaboration, Camaraderie & Financial Literacy With @ClashofClans #onted
I am a big fan and advocate for games based learning. In the most trivial form, good games offer complex puzzles, critical thought and creative play. Many good games today require an element of...
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Food For Thought: Many of our JK/SK students will see the 22nd century
I keep hearing and reading “21st century this” and “21st century that” and “20th century practices” and I have to wonder… Why do we keep looking backwards or at the present? Food For Thought: Our...
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The Real 1:1 Is Not About Devices
Full disclosure: Much of this post comes from conversations with my administrator Chris Moore (@icprin). I would like to acknowledge him before you continue reading. The real 1:1 is more about making...
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Thank You, Teachers!
Yup, thats me in the video. What a surprise reunion with Mrs. B – I hadn’t seen her in 15 years since I graduated High School. Mrs. Boudreau took a chance on me and allowed me to create a project that...
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The “One Size Fits All” Approach to Teaching Mathematics
This is just another post about grades, feedback and “good” math questions. I’m at a loss, so feel free to dive in. The context of this post is about providing students with one or two rich open ended...
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Gone But Not Forgotten
This post is in reply to Doug Peterson’s post here. As a former student of Harrow District High School (and current small town resident) I am saddened by the recent turn of events in which it was voted...
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That’s One Small Step For Man…
In this lesson students will explore Geometry by coding and write narratives about life on Mars. Thanks to Sharon Drummond & Mel Poissant for the inspiration. Grade six students figuring out how to...
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Interactive Bulletin Boards with QR, AR & Makey Makey
We have been having discussions around the notion of making bulletins boards more engaging and interactive so I wanted to share a few ideas. 1) QR Codes Recommended app: I-nigma iOS:...
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Coding, Math, Art + Makey Makey = Interactive Bulletin Board
There has been a lot of request to share more from yesterday’s post about interactive bulletin boards. I managed to grab these shots today before we took the remainder of it down. Students worked...
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Math + CS: Cracking The Secret Code
In this activity I would like to demonstrate how concepts of Computer Science can be used to support numeracy. As many of you are aware, I am a big fan of coding to support critical thinking and...
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Hour of Code: Minecraft Edition + #MIEExpert
Computer Science education week is fast approaching and Microsoft and Code.org have teamed up to provide us with the Minecraft Hour of Code edition. Throughout the campaign, users will learn the basic...
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5 Reasons Teachers Should NOT Use Twitter
Clickbait! OK, I’m in a mood. Not a bad mood. Just a mood. I love twitter for many reasons. I love to share “stuff” and see what others are doing in their classrooms on a daily basis. I love reading...
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Dear Future Teachers…Simple Tools to Get Started
I’ve been reading up on the Enhanced Teacher Education Program that began here this school year and I would like to share some highlights as these changes will be incredibly beneficial for both...
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Coding Non-Linear Stories With @twinethreads
I loved “Choose your own adventure” books as a kid. They had a way of immersing me into the story under the guise of gaming. So when my colleague Colin (https://twitter.com/colinjpattison) showed me...
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Unplugging the Hour of Code
Teaching kids to code is arguably as important to today’s youth as numeracy and literacy. In many ways code is numeracy and literacy. More so, it is also a way of looking at problems, breaking them...
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Unplugging the Hour of Code (Part 2)
In this post I’d like to share another unplugged activity that was inspired by a comment and memory from Doug Peterson’s (@dougpete) university course on this post. As you are aware, it is Hour of Code...
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[Pedagogy] – Beyond the Hour of Code
As many of you are aware, I am a big advocate for integrating coding into classrooms of any age. Coding makes students think critically, look beyond the surface, solve problems, debug, collaborate...
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