“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” – John Dewey We no longer question whether or not the use of digital technology improves learning; there is a large body of research that clearly shows that it does. The vast majority of our students arrive at UWCSEA with a…
Category: early years
Grade 1 Students Start Blogging with Easy Blogger Jr
At UWCSEA we like to empower our students to share their learning in lots of different ways. They take charge at Student-Led Conferences, and interact with various service groups as part of the school year. In Grade 1, we wanted to add blogging to an authentic audience to the list, both as a part of…
Safety Online in the Early Years
This blog post is a follow up to an information sharing session we had with parents where we discussed helping our students / children find a balance between their on / and / off line lives. One question that came out of this session was, “How can we help our young children stay safe while allowing…