Category: 21st Century Learning

• Technology in Education : BYOD & Equitable Access

    BYOD is an initiative that more and more individual schools and boards are considering to run within schools. While it promises many benefits for students, teachers and school boards, it is an initiative that is not without issues and ethical considerations that should be thoughtfully considered by teachers and boards alike. Equity and access […]

  Deborah McCallum

  October 22, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, BYOD, Ed-Tech, Educational Technology, Equity and Access

  Access, Big Ideas in Education, BYOD, digital divide, edtech, Educational Technology, Equity, Equity and Access, Technology in Education

• Unlearning the Labels we use in Education

    This past week I was fortunate to have the opportunity to engage in Facilitator Training with some wonderful leaders in our Board. It was energizing, supportive, informative and prompted a lot of great reflection and discussions. How do Labels affect the Learning Process? One of the key ideas that resonated with me was how […]

  Deborah McCallum

  October 20, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, Capacity Building, Cognitive Science & Education, Educational Leadership, Facilitation, Globalization

  21st Century Education, Big Ideas in Education, Capacity building, Facilitation, Inquiry Based Learning, Jack Uldrich, schemas, Steven Katz, unlearning

• Mobile Technologies and The Changing Ecology of our Schools

    Advancing mobile technologies and information access in the 21st century require ecological changes of classroom structure.  Increasing numbers of schools are experimenting with various versions of BYOD programs, and purchasing mobile devices for students to use. It is necessary to acknowledge how these developments will ultimately change the ecology of the classroom, how teachers teach, and […]

  Deborah McCallum

  October 2, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, BYOD, Educational Technology, Mobile Technologies

  Big Ideas in Education, BYOD, Classroom ecology, edtech, Educational change, mobile technology, Pedagogy

• Facilitating a Digital Publishing Program in my new Education Commons Role

    Last year started out as an exciting year, where I had the opportunity to launch a Student Publishing Program in our Library. Inspired by the SAMR and Technology Integration Matrix, and the TPACK models, I decided to design a Digital Publishing Program. As I continue with this initiative in this new school year, I […]

  Deborah McCallum

  September 8, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Aboriginal, Best Practices, Big Ideas in Education, Differentiation, Educational Leadership, Educational Technology, Ideas for Learning Strategies

  21st Century Library spaces, Assessment of learning, Big Ideas in Education, Deborah McCallum, Differentiation, Digital Publishing in the Learning commons, edtech, Education Commons, Education Technology, Elementary Library Spaces, IPad, IPhone, Learning Commons, Librarianship, Library, Publishing

• Social Media, Digital Citizenship, Critical Thinking

  We all know that social media platforms hold large databases of our personal information. Even when we think we have deleted a post…it still exists with the companies. Even though we don’t know what will happen with this data in the future, we need to engage in real critical inquiry about the ramifications for the […]

  Deborah McCallum

  September 6, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, Digital Citizenship, Facebook, Social Media

  21st Century Education, Big Ideas in Education, content aggregation, creativity, critical thinking, digital citizenship, Digital footprints, edtech, Educational Technology, Facebook, Facial Recognition, Graph Search, internet safety, Media Literacy, predicting future outcomes, privacy, Social Media, Student learning, student privacy, student safety

• New Pedagogies needed for Edtech Integration

  Technology has always existed, and there is nothing really new to teach our students. If we can consider this argument for a moment, and consider the implications of what it means for Education. If technology has always existed and evolved, then learning has also had to evolve across time and space. The newest and rapidly […]

  Deborah McCallum

  August 22, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, Ed-Tech, Educational Leadership, Educational Technology

  21st Century Technology, Big Ideas in Education, edtech, Educational Technology, Learning, New Pedagogies, new pedagogies for deep learning, Pedagogy, Student learning

• Edtech, will you marry me? Proposal from a Teacher

  I think I am finally ready to take the next step in my relationship with Ed! Ed Tech, Please consider this marriage proposal from me, a teacher…. And not just me…me kids really need that direct ‘Tech’ influence in their lives. More and more I realise that I just can’t do it all on my […]

  Deborah McCallum

  July 22, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, Ed-Tech, Educational Technology

  Building relationships in the classroom, curriculum, edtech, Educational Technology, humour, proposal for etech from a teacher, school improvement plans

• The Psychology behind helping students to ‘Connect the Dots’ to the Future

  As Steve Jobs once said: You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the […]

  Deborah McCallum

  June 8, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, Cognitive Psychology

  21st Century Technology, cognition, Cognitive Psychology, Digital footprints, higher order thinking skills, metacognition, Technology in Education