I am an Ontario Certified Teacher and mother, with ten years of work experience in Digital Broadcast Media at Discovery Channel Canada and Corus Entertainment (including HISTORY & National Geographic Canada).
Engaging learners through inquiry and connecting them to real world experiences is my passion.
English, Media Literacy, Game-Based Learning, Gifted Education, and Outdoor Education are my prime areas of interest.
Paradigm shifts in teaching and learning aren’t unusual. Just think of the shortcuts calculators, grammar and spell-checkers, and even the World Wide Web introduced. But here is why ChatGPT is different.
Random Saturday post! I wanted to draw your attention to a FREE Shark Week-inspired resource I posted on TeachersPayTeachers, with additional teaching details here.
In an earlier post, I explored how social technology tools (such as Twitter, Wikis, etc.) can be used in educational Alternate Reality Games, designed to engage student learning. In that post I explained that, “ARGs are interactive, networked narratives (dubbed storyscapes) that behave like complex scavenger hunts. They rely on existing real-world environments as their…
Education, like parenting, is inherently political — whether in the lessons you choose to teach, or in the ones you omit (intentionally or otherwise). As parents are their child’s earliest teachers, it’s important to take stock of just what you are modelling to your little learners, and to question what messages about diversity, inclusion and…
In a fast-changing, dynamic and hyper-connected world, what abilities will your learners need to have most? “For the past century, schooling has largely been contained within classroom and school walls, and students who graduate have acquired great skills in conforming to the learning expectations defined by others: doing what they have been instructed to do.…
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