Category: Big Ideas in Education
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Merging Literacies in the 21st Century
Let’s learn together about how to promote literacy in the 21st century. Merging traditional literacy with digital literacy and other literacies.
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Information-Processing in the Digital Age: Beginning with Content Curation
The process of finding information and creating new knowledge involves key skills that are important for all learners. In the 21st century, the amount of information that our students must process has grown exponentially, and will continue to grow. This is one area where we need to build capacity with our educators. In the 21st […]
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Acquire, Manipulate, Process, Present: My 4 Steps for Knowledge Building
The education sector essentially uses a variety of programs and strategies to add significant value to the lives of all learners. Each one depends upon unique interactions of both the educator and the learner. We are confronting the new challenges that schools are facing in the 21st century. These include, but not limited to, technology […]
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Reflections on Mindsets & the Psychology of Success
Teachers expectations of students abilities in the classroom play significant roles in learner success. Likewise, learner mindsets have strong impacts in education. The best way to realize the potential within ourselves and the potential within others, especially our learners is, to set and identify reasonable goals – not as ultimate boundaries to where you can go […]
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Edtech, Advertising, and Media Literacy
The rapid increase of technology in the 21st century has impacted every sector, and education is no exception. While the benefits are numerous, the drawbacks have included the advertising and commercialism tactics that have permeated the many technologies, especially free technologies that educators are using. If educators are not careful, we could be inadvertently endorsing […]
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Questions for Knowledge, Development and Learning
Knowledge is not a fixed entity. It is fluid and ever-changing. With that in mind, it is beneficial as educators to get into the habit of asking fundamental questions about knowledge. For instance, What is knowledge? How is knowledge produced? What knowledge do I have, and why is it different than someone else’s? Who […]
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Professional Inquiry to Improve Practice in Education
It can be very daunting and challenging to make real changes in our practices as educators. One way that we can do this is to actively engage in the process of Inquiry. Inquiry is a creative endeavor where teachers do not have to be the ‘experts’. The answers are not necessarily in a textbook, yet […]
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Re-imagining Education: Changing Prescriptive Teaching and Assessment Practices in our Schools
We are now 14 years into the 21st Century, yet we are living in an Education system that was built more than 150 years ago. Yet, our children are growing up in a very different world that is interactive, collaborative, and globalized. It is a world where they can now look up new ideas, share […]
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