Category: First Nations Metis Inuit Perspectives

• Walking the Good Path in Life: Digital Citizenship and The Seven Grandfather Teachings

  From a First Nations perspective, you ‘Walk the Good Path’ when you demonstrate The Seven Grandfather Teachings. When you live your best life, you demonstrate Truth, Love, Humility, Courage, Honesty, Respect, & Bravery. Now, this is true in our physical worlds, as it is in our virtual and digital worlds. We all have a responsibility to help […]

  Deborah McCallum

  May 2, 2014

  Aboriginal, First Nations Metis Inuit Perspectives

  digital citizenship, First Nations, FNMI, FNMIed, Growth mindset, indigenous education, Inuit, Metis, Seven Grandfather Teachings

• Educational Change, New Pedagogies with FNMI Knowledge

  Educational change and implementation of new pedagogies is essential in this day in age. This change also needs to equally encompass FNMI values, perspectives, cultures and knowledge. The fastest growing population in Canada is the FNMI population. The ever increasing population of FNMI youth needs to be equally recognized in Canadian schools. If we do […]

  Deborah McCallum

  April 27, 2014

  First Nations Metis Inuit Perspectives

  Big Ideas in Education, Canadian schools, edtech, educational strategies, FNMI, FNMIed, Indigenous Knowledge, Knowledge Building, New Pedagogies, Student Voice, Traditional Ecological Knowledge

• 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 […]

  Deborah McCallum

  November 24, 2013

  Big Ideas in Education, Capacity Building, First Nations Metis Inuit Perspectives, Inquiry

  collaborative inquiry, Cooperative inquiry, Deborah McCallum, education, First Nations, Inquiry, Inquiry Based Learning, Learner needs, Learning, Stephen Katz, student, Student needs, Teacher, teacher needs

• Teaching the Indian Act

    The Indian Act of 1876 was the consolidation of other Acts that were created to begin to ‘Civilize’ and assimilate Aboriginal Peoples into Canada. It is still alive and very much in pace today, still mostly organized in its original form, despite dozens of amendments. It is a very destructive Act that sought to […]

  Deborah McCallum

  September 9, 2013

  Aboriginal, First Nations, First Nations Metis Inuit Perspectives

  Aboriginal, education, FNMI, FNMIed, Indian Act, Indigenous, indigenous education, social studies

• FNMI, eLearning and Culturally Relevant Education

  https://flic.kr/p/jS3h The FNMI populations across North America are incredibly diverse, both linguistically and culturally. With literally hundreds of different First Nations and Aboriginal populations, we are faced with many challenges with regards to how we can adequately preserve Indigenous knowledge and ways of living within Canada. In our Western world, standardized, results-based practices, measurement, and […]

  Deborah McCallum

  March 31, 2013

  First Nations Metis Inuit Perspectives

  Aboriginal, Big Ideas in Education, Cultural Awareness, cultural relevance, culturally relevant teaching, edtech, education, Education Technology, eLearning strategies, First Nations, FNMI, indigenous education, Metis, nuit, Technology

• Helping our Children to ‘Walk the Good Path’ in life: The Seven Grandfather Teachings & Educating our Children

  The Seven Grandfather Teachings tell us that you live your best life, when you can demonstrate toward others, the constructs of Truth, Love, Humility, Courage, Honesty, Respect, & Bravery. From a First Nations perspective, you ‘Walk the Good Path’ when you demonstrate Truth, Love, Humility, Courage, Honesty, Respect, and Bravery. The 7th Generation Principle also […]

  Deborah McCallum

  August 22, 2012

  Aboriginal, Big Ideas in Education, First Nations Metis Inuit Perspectives, Seven Grandfather Teachings

  Decolonizing the curriculum, First Nations, FNMI, Indigenous, Metis & Inuit, Seven Grandfather Teachings, Seventh Generation Principles