CBC Curio.ca
A Virtual Third Place: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation / Société Radio-Canada. On November 2, 1936, Canada’s federal government under Prime Minister Richard Bennett created the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation / Société Radio-Canada, a Crown-owned media corporation. The CBC commenced radio broadcasts later that year, followed by television broadcasts in 1952. The decision to institute a public […]
Upcycling and Repurposed / Recycled Art
Planning lessons and units on the basis of a theme or concept helps teachers to adapt a more interdisciplinary approach. This enables students to understand the chosen theme or concept through different disciplinary lenses. For instance, within the broader concept of environmental sustainability, students might study Math in order to “understand extremely small numbers… which […]
Spin Class: Drop Spindles and Textiles
Interdisciplinarity can be understood as a response to the rapid changes our world is facing today, particularly social, technological, and environmental changes. Yet interdisciplinarity does not advocate for an end to traditional subject disciplines. Rather, it calls on each discipline to “develop open, dynamic, and transactional approaches capable of depicting research in a network representation […]
Making Connections: playing with electrical circuits
This week in Create, Make, Innovate, we explore electrical circuits: squishy and paper-based. Play-based, hands-on learning activities appeal to our creativity and our curiosity.
UBC Seed Library: getting our hands dirty with making, creating, innovating!
Hands-on activities can be fun, even inspiring, and they’re a great way to introduce people to different concepts and new ideas, first-hand. Getting people active and chatting with each other helps get the ideas flowing… sometimes in ways we’d never thought of before, and sometimes with people we hadn’t realised have so much in common […]