Weekly Reflections

Here is my final reflection from this course! I chose to highlight some of the concepts and tools that will stick with me and that I will take into my future teaching.

This week I watched videos from group 6, 8, 10, and 15. I thought they all had interesting topics and found it nice to hear from so many groups during class. My favourite video that I watched was from group 15 which was Jack, Will, Refano, and Byron. They looked at using Slido in the…

This week’s topic was about EdCamps! EdCamps were an unfamiliar concept to me before this class so I’m glad I got to learn about a new concept and will now be on the lookout for EdCamp opportunities that I can attend. In class, we all put suggestions up on Padlet to brainstorm what kind of…

This week we looked at computational thinking and gaming in education! Here are some screenshots of what I tried out on code.org. I had done some of this before in high school so it wasn’t completely new. I remember students really liking it so I can definitely see it being used in classes in different…

Pictures by Amy Simons Today we were lucky enough to get to have a tour of The Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry (PSII)! It was a fun field trip and was nice to get out into the community to explore other education avenues. Everyone we talked to during our visit welcomed us and was…

For this week’s Pro D Day session, I attended the Black Canadian Learning Resource zoom for grades 6-9. There were many great resources presented in the resource that could be used in my future classes. Black representation is something that has definitely been lacking in my education throughout my whole life so I found this…

A new tool I explored this week was Obsidian. It is an app that organizes notes and to do lists and can be used for personal or professional uses. I think this is a great tool to help stay organized. It is nice to have all notes in one place. As someone who uses to…

Here is my first attempt at screen casting! Here I show how to create a new Pinterest board or collage. I was able to add a few interactions with H5P.http:// This is a tool that I think would make for a fun and interactive for many different grades and subjects. For my specific subject being…

By Kaleb Tapp https://unsplash.com/photos/building-near-trees-during-day-1deQbU6DhBg Do we need to reimagine education? Education has seemed to change very little in the near past and I think it is time for a change. We are not trying to mold students into a certain box so that they will be a good factory worker anymore. The world of education…