This is a steeeeep learning curve and something I will need to devote my Professional Development towards in the future! Working in Kindergarten I have heard alot about minecraft but had never played! After this class I had my nephew … Read More
I have always been of the philosophy that some of the most important learning children do through exploring the world around them on their own. That children will learn what they are ready to learn, when they are ready to … Read More
This week I dived into practices that encourage collaboration of students. I wanted to know how teachers facilitate the sharing of knowledge between students as well as how students share their knowledge orally with their teachers. I watched many videos … Read More
Today we had a great presentation from Trevor MacKenzie about inquiry-based learning! Although this topic is very familiar to me, I took a lot away from his presentation. I really valued how he takes the time to connect to and … Read More
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash Coming Soon***** Stay tuned to the bottom of this post for information about Chromebooks from my peers who researched accessibility, apps to use on Chromebooks and productivity! Disadvantages of Chromebooks in the classroom Chromebooks … Read More
Scaffolding After reading “An Ethic of Excellence” I started to think deeper into the importance placed on scaffolding in Knowledge Building. Before I read the book I thought to myself: But HOW do they encourage students towards … Read More
I have a long history with education professional development in both my past employment as an Early Childhood Educator working in the Early year field as well as working as a CUPE member in the school district. Attending PRO-D hosted … Read More
This week I started to really get inspired when I listened to the first episode of the pod cast “Innovation at work exploring the KB principles” Check it out at https://soundcloud.com/thelearningexchange/episode-1-innovation-at-work-exploring-the-kb-principles Listening to the children sharing ideas of prior … Read More
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash Curation: This week I worked on getting things in one place to make things easier! I used Freedly to put in all my classmates blogs as well as some other blogs I like to … Read More
Time for Growth! Time to set aside all my bias and go into to this with a open mind… Parts of knowledge building pedagogy go against all my learning from my early years education and some of it lines up … Read More