Yay, we’re talking about my teaching specialty this week! I can finally feel like my skills are valuable in the library learning commons! Computational thinking and robotics are somewhat strangely arranged in the BC curriculum as we move from grades 6-12. This post will discuss where the terms appear in the curriculum and then discuss […]
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Can I take a moment out of my busy day to say that I love the word “iterate”? Such a lovely word that just rolls off the tongue and says “fail forward” in a much nicer way. Likely due to how late in the week I submitted it, I did not receive a lot of
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Source Overdrive. (n.d.). Fraser Valley Regional Library. Retrieved from https://fvrl.overdrive.com
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A few questions that came to mind while reading about the legal issues surrounding the sharing of student work. How does my home district monitor and enforce compliance with FOIPPA and sharing of student work? Given that most version control companies are based out of the United States (e.g., Github, Bitbucket), what options exist for
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This graphic, created in collaboration with Dee Singh and Angela Stevens, is targeted towards a middle/high school audience to educate students about some digital literacy topics. Sources Mihai Tanase. (2009, November 4). Cloud computing – How it all works. [YouTube Clip] YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTNgV0O_oTg November, A. (2012, March 25). How to read a web address? November
Another day, another assignment. Today, I’m talking about strategies for evaluating new technology for privacy concerns. At the end of all this, the individual needs to decide whether the privacy risks are worth the advantages that the tech provides, but being educated at least allows us to make an informed decision. How can you learn
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Introduction This post explores some of my learnings on how technology fits into the LLC model, along with a smattering of related learnings that have come up during my TL as Tech Leader course. It contains ideas that I would like to implement in my LLC when I become a teacher librarian . I’ve structured
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I am not the librarian in my school, and I am hesitant to be too critical of my school’s librarian for not being a tech/maker person, because she has many, many other wonderful qualities, skills, and passions that make her a great teacher-librarian. However, there is little in the way of maker programming at my
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This is an assignment post and a follow-up to a previous post. If I had received critical feedback on my professional goals, I would have revised them, but as it is, I did not receive that feedback this time around. My classmates were too nice! The questions I included for feedback were: How do you
Questions for feedback: How do you choose to participate in your PLNs? What professional goals for technology did/would you have set as a new teacher?
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