A Critical Conversation About Literacy Part III: A Place to Start in Today’s...
by Melanie Stonebanks You don’t have to have all the answers. You only need to know the questions to ask. "It's a Book" by Lane Smith - You Tube trailer As has been discussed in the previous two...
View ArticleTeacher Book Picks: Favourites from the Field
Photo by Chapendra Reading [Day 12] under a CC license With the winter holidays quickly upon us, many educators across the province will soon be on a two week break from the classroom. Susan and I...
View ArticleGeolocalize it: The global context of everything
The idea for this blog post came to me after I presented a short webinar on the mapping and drawing application Cartograf last week (Archive available here). Previously I had published a post about...
View ArticlePOP goes the Portfolio: Digital portfolio in the POP Classroom
Photo by Eliot Phillips – CC Attribution License CC BY 2.0 One of the main goals of schooling is to prepare students for a fulfilling life in the workplace, an often difficult task when you are...
View ArticleBeyond the Textbook: Righting the Math Course
CC0 http://pixabay.com/en/sunset-boat-sea-ship-675847/ The lecture, textbook, worksheet, pop-quiz, test and exam cycle are the traditional delivery tools used in most schools to teach mathematics....
View ArticleA blast from the past or back to the future?
Some time ago, my past caught up with me and it was both a pleasure and a shock. In 1968, at the ripe young age of 22, I was a chemistry teacher to a group of Secondary IV students. Teaching was how I...
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