by Donna Miller Fry (@fryed)
On Monday, November 16, I am part of the “Making Waves” event where Manitoba educators share our remote learning strategies. We are teaching through a crisis. What do we need to keep going, and to keep getting better? Here are some of the online resources I use to access new content, stay connected to others, […]
There has never been a more important time to have a strong professional learning network. It is through our connections with others that we find curated resources and ideas. Every day brings more change, more uncertainty, more fear. We are teaching through a crisis. In Manitoba, we are leveraging existing networks and structures to share […]
This September, we need to keep schools safe for children and staff. This is a particularly complex challenge, because we still know very little about the virus causing the pandemic. According to Siddhartha Mukherjee, this SARS-CoV-2 virus became a pandemic because of some very specific characteristics: It is completely new to humans, so we are […]
COVID-19 has turned our world upside down. Schools closed in March. Some of us experienced partial re-openings in June. As we use July and August to plan the next version of school, it is critical that we continue to learn as much as we can about the corona virus, and how to stay safe. Our […]
Access. If there is one thing this pandemic has done for education, it has shone a bright spotlight on the gaps in access that our young adults have to the education pathways that lead them to the future they envision. Access is a complex term. Some young adults go to high schools that are relatively […]
Here are my summary notes from the Getting Smart Podcast, Episode 257. Dr. Tony Wagner is a well-known educator and author of many books, including co-author (with Ted Dintersmith) of “Most Likely To Succeed” – which became the wildly successful documentary on education. In this recent podcast, Tony talks about his new memoir, Learning By […]
I’ll admit, my first response to closing school for 1.5 billion children worldwide was to think about the opportunity to finally shift our thinking about school to a vision for 2020 and beyond. I was excited to see so many thought leaders in education also trying to figure out how to do this. Then there […]
“Children in groups, can actually learn almost anything by themselves, using the internet, if you let them, and if they want to.” Sugata Mitra – #silverliningforlearning Episode 2 Teaching through a pandemic gives us the opportunity to rethink our role in student learning. Can we resist our first instinct to grab tightly to what we […]
How do we plan for exceptional distance learning while we are doing it? We have two things going on here. Schools are out, everyone is at home, and we are scrambling to meet the needs of our students right now, while everyone copes with a health crisis and an economic crisis (The Urgency) At the […]
I don’t know the learning needs of our children when their learning moves out of the school buildings. “Content delivery” might work for a few of our students, but real learning requires so much more from us. As Cathy Fosnot taught us, “If there is no learning, there has been no teaching.” As educators, how […]
