This week, I had the opportunity to attend one of the third online pro-d sessions, “I Am Because We Are: Grade 6-9 Black Canadian Learning Resource.” This educational resource is fantastic. It is based on principles from South African “Ubuntu”, which talks about how people are who they are because of who everyone else around…
I started this week off by trying to plan days to run. I realized I had many plans and to do lists on the go already and many plans that were popping up spontaneously as well. Between constantly changing classes, homework, house chores, friend time, family time, and outside commitments, it proved to be a…
This week, I was excited to explore the inner workings of Google Classroom. I saw it on the weekly outline and wanted to know more about the teaching side of the tool. The best way to do this was to create my own mock Classroom. I had always been on the other side of this…
“Talk about how you’ve found GenAI useful for educational purposes.” Generative AI has been one of the most popular and controversial tools that have been introduced to humanity in a long time. Personally, I can recognize it as both a possibly helpful resource but also as a detrimental scar in education. From a more optimistic…
“Reflections on whether you think including H5P tools would potentially be a useful tool at the grade level you hope to teach (or not).” “Describe how you could use video or audio editing as the assignment medium for the subject and grade level you will be teaching (if at all), and what you could do…
Weekly Reflection Blog Post #1- Jan. 16th “Do We Need to Reimagine Education?” After watching Most Likely to Succeed (2015), I could see how the documentary challenges traditional schooling and does not prioritize a rigid system with standardized assignments and testing. The project-based learning model they talked about draws more on individual students’ creative skills,…