by Donna Miller Fry (@fryed)
This week, in #nled, principals in the Western Region are meeting f2f. At one of our sessions, we are learning about the connections between the networked lives of our students, and their mental health. The slides for the session are shared below. Thanks, in particular, to Dr. Alec Couros for posting his slides on Slideshare. […]
Here are the slides for the session: Resources (generated by other groups working on this topic): Triangulation of assessment Your Connected LIfe: http://mediasmarts.ca/sites/mediasmarts/files/tip-sheet/your_connected_life_guide.pdf Kathy Pick: Creativity online: https://t.co/2uVSZz9Wfh You can learn anything: How Youth Learn: Ned’s Gr8 8 What is learning? Katz video http://www.curriculum.org/k-12/en/videos/what-is-learning What is your focus? Learning is Messy: Digital Storytelling: http://50ways.wikispaces.com/Tools+By+Media Jump […]
This post is part of a #5post5days challenge issued by Carlo Fusco. Please take time to read the other blogs, and join in! Five posts in five days is not the same as one per day, and you can start any time! 1/5 posts available here. ~~~~~ In this series of posts, I am thinking […]
This post is part of a 10 day posting challenge issued by Tina Zita. You can’t be a connected educator if you don’t contribute. Sometimes we need a nudge to remember that if nobody shares, nobody learns. Thanks Tina! We Need You to Lead Us This subtitle from Seth Godin’s book, Tribes, is a call […]
What is your vision of effective mathematics teaching and learning in elementary school? This is a new question for me. This blog is Learning About Learning, and I have a lot of learning to do about mathematics education. I am hoping you can help me. Here are a few of the things I am thinking […]
When we talk about “Visible Learning” and “Visible Thinking”, can we now focus more on the Thinking and Learning than on the Visible? This post is part of a 10 day posting challenge issued by Tina Zita. You can’t be a connected educator if you don’t contribute. Sometimes we need a nudge to remember that […]
If you were unable to attend Heidi Siwak’s closing keynote at #BIT15 this year, you missed an amazing learning experience. Let’s see if we can share the important points. Here is Heidi’s link to the resources. Here is the storify of the Twitter chat for the event.
So many educators reading so many books that impact their practice! That was my takeaway from #satchat this morning, and #ontedleaders last week as we were challenged to share the reading that was impacting our work at this time. I can’t possibly read all of those books, but my colleagues in my […]
The OPC (Ontario Principals’ Council) PQP (Principal Qualification Program) courses were, for me, hands down the best professional learning I had ever had at the time. Taking my PQP Part 2 was, for me, an every second weekend, 20-hour, round-trip drive to Sudbury, driving a standard transmission car with a broken right arm (in a […]
In January, we asked educators, “What’s your ONE WORD for 2015?”. In Ontario, we used #onewordont as a hashtag to collect the ideas, and Julie Balen created a word cloud to share. So how’s it going? Six months in, is this word still a focus for your work? Today I am thinking a lot about my […]
