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Design Challenges: Creating Class Community

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, Active Learning, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, engSTEAM, Learning Design & Planning, Post Secondary, Resource, Secondary | Tagged with design, inquiry

Providing students with opportunities to work together, to set and achieve goals and problem solve through the process can help foster community building. Having students participate in a design challenge (developed by the teacher) is one way to facilitate purposeful, interdisciplinary engagement, in your classroom. As students become more familiar with the design thinking process, […]

A brief history… Timelines

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, English, K-3, Paid, Resource | Tagged with ets, Free, inquiry, Language Arts, multimedia, scarfe sandbox, storytelling, timeline, timelines, timetoast

I came across TimeToast awhile ago and was just reminded of it this morning as a tool for creating interactive digital timelines. There are many digital tools available for timeline creation – I’ve listed several in the ‘how to get started’ section below including a few open educational resources. There are also, many ways to […]

Taking a dip into inquiry planning & resource curation – LLED 351

Posted in Blog Posts | Tagged with evaluation, inquiry, planning, resources

Designing a cross-curricular unit plan that incorporates aspects of student inquiry is a major assignment in LLED 351, Literacy Practices and Assessment, and also excellent practice for practicum and future planning. To support you in completing this assignment, I’ve been working together with our knowledgeable education librarians and some of your instructors and to develop some […]

Blogging in Teacher Education

Posted in Blog Posts, English, Not Subject Specific, Post Secondary, Resource | Tagged with blog, blogging, blogs, Free, inquiry, resources, Teacher Use

Social Networking, defined by Gunawardena et al (2009) as the “practice of expanding knowledge by making connections with individuals of similar interests” is a potentially powerful tool for both Post-Secondary Faculty and the K-12 classroom teacher. Through this networking, students are afforded the opportunity to co-create knowledge within a Community of Practice (Wenger et al, […]

Star Viewing Apps

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AR & VR Tools, K-3, Not Subject Specific, Resource | Tagged with app, AR, augmented reality, engaging, Free, inquiry, interactive, science, sky, starviewer

These are apps that provide an immersive and augmented viewing of the stars, planets, and sometimes even space stations or satellites! They allow students to recognize and experience the locations of various stars in relation to themselves. It’s a powerful tool that promotes questioning, deeper understanding, and engagement because students can rotate their devices to […]