Today was the day we presented our passion projects to the class. We all had a wide variety of what we chose to learn about from sign language, to cooking, to learning an instrument. I thought I would give you a bit of a summary of what everyone chose to do. I am short a… Continue reading Class Passion Project Summaries
I was in San Diego for a rowing regatta on Friday so I was not in class. As a result I was told to blog about what I was doing and what I worked on. We raced Saturday and Sunday and ended up winning the Petite Final. On Friday we spent the day off loading… Continue reading The Day and the Year in Review
Keith Rispin works for the North Vancouver school board as a teacher. He teaches in a unique way where there is more emphasis on technology. He uses Google Classroom where he has posted all the tutorial videos, assignments and resources that his students need. The students can then submit the assignments to him online when… Continue reading Keith Rispin & Google Classroom
We had Trevor MacKenzie come speak with us. He is a teacher at Oak Bay High School where he teaches English. His teaching philosophy is based on inquiry style learning. In fact he even wrote a book on inquiry based learning called Dive into Inquiry. MacKenzie started down the path of inquiry based learning after… Continue reading Trevor MacKenzie & Inquiry Based Learning
I got the opportunity to try Minecraft today. My younger cousin had sort of explained the game to me but I had never played it myself or seen it played. I had no idea Minecraft could be used in the classroom for educational purposes until today. Today we had a teacher, Heidi, come in with… Continue reading Minecraft
Today we were asked to look at open educational resources. Open educational resources are materials that can be accessed for little or no cost. They are materials that can aid in the learning or teaching of a topic or subject. Presently most of the open educational resources are found online but by no means are… Continue reading Open Educational Resources
On Friday we visited the Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry (PSII), a high school located here in Victoria. Jeff Hopkins started it after witnessing the current education system as a teacher, principle, and Superintendent. The school is based on some of the same ideas of that are used at High Tech High located in… Continue reading Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry
Media literacy is an important skill in our world today. With so much information shared every day on the internet with no requirement of fact checking before being posted there is a lot of false information out there. Media literacy is not just an issue that we face today. Propaganda is a long standing tradition,… Continue reading Media Literacy & Mass Media
This week we looked at instructional design and compared it to instructional systems. Often instructional design and systems are used interchangeably but both refer to certain things and have different definitions. Instructional systems is a broader term. For example it would refer to the entire curriculum. Instructional design would refer to planning a certain unit… Continue reading Instructional Design
A portion of a teacher’s job is assessing their students understanding of the concepts covered in class. There are two different forms of assessment. Within each form there are multiple ways in which you can present the information. The two forms of assessment are formative and summative. Summative is the accumulation and final marks presented. … Continue reading Formative and Summative Assessment
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