The Edtech Files: Episode 2 - Creating a Magazine Cover
A teacher from Grade 1 approached me regarding a topic the students were doing on Gamechangers. She asked how we could integrate technology into the topic, she particularly wanted the students to create a magazine cover. She also wanted all the specialists to create a video that would talk about a Gamechanger in their specialist field - I will come onto this part later. My idea was to use Google Slides as a way to create the Magazine cover. Google Slides offers a really basic
The Edtech File: Episode 1 - Teaching Copy & Paste
There are many IT skills that students need to learn so they can apply them as they grow as a learner. Copy & Paste are essential skills and it often assumed that students know how to do this simple skill. It is also often assumed that the trackpad and mouse are interchangeable, when in fact they are very different skills; if a student is drawing a picture on a computer with a mouse, can they achieve the same results using a trackpad or vice versa? I have a wall in my classro
Philosophy on Education
Everyone is a learner. 21st century tools allow learning to happen almost anywhere. The modern definition of teaching is changing. Teachers are becoming facilitators of learning where they can support the development of self learning. Professor Sugata Mitra, a leading education technologist, once said, "Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or
