For this assignment, we were asked to look at some educator communities and join one that best supports our PLN goals. Since I am in a Microsoft district, I looked into the Microsoft Educator Centre, as well as various ISTE Professional Learning Networks. For the Microsoft network, I found a huge number of online courses, […]
Purpose of my PLN: Network with computer science educators and teacher librarians who can introduce me to new ideas, share up-to-date research, and help me with specific questions as they come up. Share thoughts and read others’ thoughts on chapter guiding questions as I work through Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms (2020) Steps for my
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We’re playing in my Barbie Dreamhouse now! I studied computer engineering, so the design cycle is something I am intimately familiar with! I am also currently working in a program that is ostensibly targeting integrating the ADST curriculum (along with the Art Ed curriculum) into all subject areas, and all subject areas with each other.
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This is a different take on the subject than most folks I’ve seen in the course, which is always nerve-wracking. I used Wisemapping, which I was pleased to see was an open source project. There can never be enough FLOSS in EdTech! But that’s a post for another day. Two questions for feedback: I find
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Never let it be said that I am a great graphic designer. This is another assignment for my Teacher-Librarian coursework. I found this assignment interesting because I’ve never taken the time to split up my knowledge area in this way before. I feel like secondary science and math tend to not make abundant use of
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Although this assignment for my Teacher-Librarian course was centred on SAMR, I couldn’t help but feel like questions to ask about the educational value of tech had to be a little more holistic. As Lacruz (2018) points out, the SAMR model examines one dimension of technology use and this dimension is not the be-all, end-all
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I adore Adam Ledoux’s Bitsy Editor. It’s a simple and constrained tool for “making little worlds”, and despite its limitations, you can make some really amazing works. This post collects resources on Bitsy for my personal use, as well as for my classes. This post is a work-in-progress. General Tutorials by @haraiva: Contains a clear
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SAMR is one lens through which we can view technology integration, and “provides us with a critical framework for assessing the richness of the technology task itself” (Brooks Kirkland, 2017). As we all know in our hearts, not every teacher is using technology in transformative ways in the classroom. The Library Learning Commons model is
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At the time of writing, I am working towards a diploma in teacher-librarianship, so this blog will become something of a digital portfolio of the learning I do in that program and, moving forward, my teaching activities. I’ve blogged in the past, but found it difficult to feel like I was saying anything particularly useful
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