I’ve never seen so many databases in one school before. It is simply incredible: the amount of information at our fingertips is extraordinary. If you aren’t excited enough about all the databases you UWCSEA East teachers and students have right now, let me tell you about one of my favorites (drum roll, please): Opposing Viewpoints…
Month: November 2017
Publishing a buddy post in 45 minutes: A Tech Mentor How To
A few times a year, the HS Tech Mentor team get together. If you are wondering what those meetings look like, well, from my perspective they look like any conversation you’d see in any coffee house around the world. The unsung hero of teacher toolkits everywhere is our ability to make time and space to…
Digital Bytes – 27th Nov. 2017
How Social Media Can Help Teach Good Writing Micro writing for social media is a powerful tool for students to learn. The limiting of number of characters of many social media platforms forces students to learn brevity and to condense their thoughts. Watch Later Playlist in YouTube Patrick Green takes us through a great feature…
Phonics Learning at UWCSEA
What is meant by phonics? Let’s start with the definitions: Phonics: this is the direct relationship between sound and symbol. This involves the printed word and requires the use of the eyes and the ears to decipher words. Phonemic Awareness: is hearing the relationship between sounds and symbols and involves the spoken word. It requires…
Digital Bytes – 20th Nov. 2017
Hour of Code Hour of Code is just around the corner and it is never too early to start exploring their website. New activities this year include designing your own Google logo and participating in the Hero’s Journey in Minecraft. Mindfulness and Movement Go Noodle is a resource for teachers to help them use more…
Getting our Thinking out there on the E-table
To paraphrase what philosopher Edmund Burke once said, learning without reflection is like eating without digestion. In either case you can feed as much as you want to a person but that person won’t leave nourished; it might be as though they haven’t eaten at all. With reflection, on the other hand, critical faculties become…
Digital Bytes – 13th Nov. 2017
Be Inspired by Learning 2.017 Talks The theme of Learning 2.017 was Illuminate the Next Decade and there were a number of amazing educators who took to the stage to share their stories and ideas. UWCSEA East’s Tricia Friedman used the metaphor of a nightlight to share her message. Reading epubs on Your Computer Students…
Digital Bytes – 6th Nov. 2017
New Feature of Padlet There is a great new feature to Padlet that you are going to love: reactions. You can have students vote or add star ratings to posts to see which idea should be explored. You can also add grades to the posts. iFake Text Message Try working with students in a mode…