Tag: critical thinking

• Critical Literacy

  Our students need us more than ever. Society needs us more than ever. Educators are key to teaching critical literacy. We want our students to think critically about the world around them. We want them to think critically about all information shared through media, and make sure that the information is bias free. Particularly when […]

  Deborah McCallum

  March 12, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education, critical literacy

  Big Ideas in Education, cloaked websites, critical literacy, critical thinking, education, internet, Learning, Teacher-Librarians

• ‘Quiet’? or ‘Conversational’ Classrooms

  

  The term ‘Quiet’ in our traditional school classrooms, often equates to ‘compliance’. This was very important when our traditional school system was built over 100 years ago. It was essential that we had compliance from our students to adequately train them for the industrial era. When I think of quiet classrooms, I think about the […]

  Deborah McCallum

  April 18, 2015

  Big Ideas in Education

  21st Century Education, collaboration, collaborative inquiry, Communication, community, connecting, critical thinking, curriculum, Curriculum Design, Differentiation, edtech, Education Technology, Inquiry, Knowledge Building, sharing, socializing

• Math: How we Teach in the Classroom Matters

  

  View image | gettyimages.com Our personal schemas about math greatly impacts how we feel about math and ultimately how we will perform in math. From the time we are born, we are impacted by the attitudes and beliefs of those around us. The effects of nurture that shape our schemas of how the world works, […]

  Deborah McCallum

  February 7, 2015

  Big Ideas in Education

  conceptual development, critical thinking, Eugene Geist, Instructional Strategies, Jo Boaler, math, math anxiety, math mindsets, Mathematics

• Are we preparing our students for the world outside the classroom?

  Education is both directly impacted by changes in our world, yet is also responsible for preparing and ensuring that our society’s children are ready to survive and thrive in our world. There is no doubt about it, rapidly evolving technologies and economies are having significant impacts on the socioeconomic status of families. Education can either […]

  Deborah McCallum

  April 4, 2014

  21st Century Learning

  Big Ideas in Education, changing society, critical thinking, education, education reform, educators, higher order thinking, innovation, knowledge based economies

• Information Literacy in the 21st Century Classroom

        Information literacy skills are of paramount importance in the 21st Century. Information Literacy is an all encompassing term that includes traditional reading, writing, oral communication, digital literacy, media literacy, digital citizenship and higher order thinking skills. Higher order thinking skills includes critical thinking, and are are necessary for all curriculum areas and […]

  Deborah McCallum

  March 16, 2014

  21st Century Learning, Knowledge Building

  Big Ideas in Education, critical thinking, edtech, education, Educational Technology, information literacy, information processing, Inquiry Based Learning, Knowledge Building, Learning Commons, Library, Research, technology enabled classrooms

• 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

• 8 Ingredients for increasing Literacy and 21st Century Skills

  Students who access and use libraries and their contents – both librarians and books – outperform those students who rarely or never use libraries.  I am inspired from this quote from the article:  It’s About Access. This is particularly because it outlines 2 very powerful words:  Access and Use. Access and use of effective and appropriate […]

  Deborah McCallum

  May 25, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, Educational Leadership

  21st Century skills, Access, Big Ideas in Education, critical thinking, Deborah McCallum, education, Library, Literacy, Print and electronic resources, Usage of Resources