Apr
20
Digital Content Management in BC – YouTube
Digital Content Management – YouTube. A great video explaining how BC has created a provincial system to share and create digital learning resources.
Visit: 2learn.ca
Apr
13
A Parent’s Guide to 21st-Century Learning
From the People at Mindshift.
Key questions answered in this comprehensive guide, a downloadable PDF created by Edutopia: What should collaboration, creativity, communication, and critical thinking look like in a modern classroom? How can parents help educators accomplish their goals?
via Quick Look: A Parent’s Guide to 21st-Century Learning | MindShift.
Apr
13
50 Best Sources of Free STEM Education Online
50 Best Sources of Free STEM Education Online | Online Universities. Another great list of free resources from the people at Online Universities.
Apr
13
28 Hashtags to Follow Education Reform
From Online Universities.com. If you are interested in learning more about educational reform thoughts and ideas check out these twitter hashtags.
28 Hashtags to Follow Education Reform | Online Universities.
Mar
16
Has Ontario taught its high-school students not to think?
From University Affairs
Elementary and high schools spend so much time on the content-laden curriculum that students are unprepared for the analytic and conceptual thinking they’ll need at university
via Has Ontario taught its high-school students not to think? | University Affairs.
Mar
15
Lamenting the loss of a print icon
Lamenting the loss of a print icon – CNN.com. I remember my first set of the Encyclopedia Britannica and the excitement of having all that knowledge at my fingertips. Thirty plus years later, I am even more excited with what we have access to and the fact you can get it anywhere. Goodbye Britannica. Thanks for what you did.
Mar
04
Feb
28
Deconstructing the Transformation
The following blog was written by RVS Superintendent Greg Bass and describes the path we have been on and rationale for change.
POSTED BY GREG BASS FEBRUARY – 27 – 2012 0 COMMENT
Guest author: Greg Bass, Superintendent of Schools – It is time to tell Rocky View Schools’ story. Many conversations over the last six months with all stakeholders, both internal and external to our system, reveal that some people are struggling existentially with what the transformation is all about. What do 21st C classrooms look like? What are we aspiring to achieve? What is different?
via Deconstructing the Transformation : The Power to Enrich.
Feb
27