STEM – Doin’ it right on the other side of town
After yesterday’s heavy dose of skepticism, I headed out to day 2 of Vancouver’s Mini Maker Faire with the hope of finding someone who was doing STEM right. Recognize that I’m not ...
Tightrope Walking
We started a new Guided Inquiry unit this week with a Grade 8 Creative Writing Class. The idea behind this unit is that students use research around world issues, specifically the UN’s 17 Sust...
Maker Club – Up and Running
The great experiment has begun. Not sure where it will go and what success will look like at this point, but that’s half the adventure! We officially have a Maker Club at St. George’s....
Maker Heaven!
We celebrate the arts every year at our school through an Arts Week that brings together speakers and activities through many of the fine and performing arts. We had some AMAZING speakers (photograp...
Learn to Make – Make to Learn
I’ve been spending my Spring Break wading through Learning Logs, interviews, assignments, and surveys trying to distill common threads from the thinking of a number of students in a Social Studi...
Jargon – Questions more than answers
As I prepare to head back to classes next week, I find myself thinking a lot about use of various terms that are being tossed about in my corner of education these days (and, as I write this, I find a...
There is nothing “New” in Libraries in the 21st Century
A brief thought this morning. I was reading through my Twitter stream over a cup of coffee and found a tweet of a Mindshift article from back in June on what the “next-generation” school...
The Benefits of a Single Device 1:1 Program in Education
As my school wrestles with ideas around educational technology integration, I find myself thinking more more about the concept of a single device being deployed to every student and every teacher in t...