Well, 2020 has been a really long year! November and the beginning of December has been a very stressful month for my students, their families and myself. As you already know, I teach in the Quiet Elementary classroom and all of my students are diagnosed with anxiety and/or mental health conditions. Before starting in thisContinue reading “Is it over??”
It is hard to believe how much some things in education have changed since I was in primary and secondary school. I started kindergarten in 1986 and I do believe that there has been a shift in instructional practice. However, I also know that many things are still the same as it was when IContinue reading “Are we ready for Education 3.0?”
All Regina Public elementary schools use either Seesaw (K-4) or Google Classrooms (5-8). I currently use Seesaw in my class, even though I teach grade 6-8 students. Intensive needs programs were given permission to use Seesaw if that was what they had been previously using. There has been a really big push from the divisionContinue reading “Distance Learning”
Wow!, did I ever relate to the video “Single-tasking is the New Multi-Tasking”. It’s funny though, I hadn’t really thought of how unproductive it can be at times to try and multi-task. Multi-tasking is something that I have always felt that I was able to do really well, as I have always been a personContinue reading “Squirrel??”
One of the first things that I thought of and questioned when I heard Neil Postman’s opinion on how Sesame Street has influenced education was “What year did he write this?”. So, I turned to the great God of Google and started researching this a bit. Postman’s book “Amusing Ourselves to Death” was published inContinue reading “Sunny Days, Sweeping the Learning Away??”
When I went to high school there was a computer science class offered, but at the time I am sure I thought that it was just for geeks. Little did I know a few years later when I was in university I would have to take a computer science class and probably would have foundContinue reading “180 Degrees…Turns and Mentality”
Life is funny sometimes, not necessarily ha-ha funny, but funny how things happen to really make you think. I am grateful that Alec was good with this post coming a little late, because if I had written this post before last class, it would have been a different post. When I started teaching, I wasContinue reading “So many changes…”
I have to admit that while we were in small groups this past class, I had a moment of “WTF are they talking about!”, while listening to Curtis, Trevor and Jennifer discuss educational technology in the classroom and the SAMR and ISTE frameworks of educational technology. I felt very out of the loop for aContinue reading “Educational Technology”
