Nerd Alert 🦈 : New FREE Shark Week-Inspired Lesson Plan
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.
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5 Things Game-Based Learning Is and 5 Things It Is Not
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…
The Top 6 Competencies Your Learners Will Need Most For a Complex Future
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.…
Social Technology Tools in Educational Alternate Reality Games
“If children can build, play and understand games that work, it’s possible that someday they will understand and design systems that work. And the world is full of complicated systems.” — Sara Corbett, Journalist, New York Times This week, I am pivoting a bit and telling you about my focus of research while pursuing my…
Top 7 Tutoring Pro-Tips to Help You Make Most of Your Child’s At-Home Learning
Teachers have a legal and moral duty to care for their students best summarized by the Latin phrase “In Loco Parentis” — in the place of a parent. In Ontario, and in many other parts of Canada, it’s the doctrine teachers embody in their practice and in their classrooms. But we now find ourselves in…
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