Tag: education

• Thanks for the Feedback

  

  by Deb McCallum This year I have been diving deeper into learning more about cognitive biases, and our blind spots. My doctorate course with Dr. Katz last winter was very insightful into helping me to understand how our biases can impact our work. When I think about my own influence in education, I think about […]

  Deborah McCallum

  July 17, 2021

  Big Ideas in Education, Education, Feedback, Leadership

  Douglas Stone, education, feedback, leadership, Thanks for the Feedback

• Virtual Reality in the Math Class: Moving from Abstract to Concrete

  

  I have been thinking about Virtual Reality (VR) and how it could support math class. I think that we can help our students develop deeper conceptual understandings of math if we can provide opportunities to help students experience the math in multiple immersive ways. We know that students learn best when they can experience the […]

  Deborah McCallum

  March 24, 2019

  Math, Virtual Reality

  concreteness fading, education, math, ruth beatty, Virtual Reality

• The Careful Consideration of eLearning – Deborah McCallum – Medium

  

  Deborah McCallum

  March 17, 2019

  Big Ideas in Education

  education, Education Technology, eLearning, eLearning design tips, elearning development, online learning

• Summative Assessment

  

  Educators need to co-create summative assessments to create more reliable and valid evaluations.

  Deborah McCallum

  January 1, 2019

  Assessment, Big Ideas in Education

  assessment, collaboration, education, reliable assessments, summative assessment, valid assessments

• Helping kids to find their Writing Superpower: by Allison Tait

  

  The following is a guest post by Allison Tait, Author of The Mapmaker Chronicles     As an author who’s regularly asked to visit schools for talks and workshops, I have one main question for educators: Who am I talking to? I find that the candidates for small group workshops tend to be made up of […]

  Deborah McCallum

  October 11, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education

  Allison Tait, education, The Mapmaker Chronicles, writing, Writing Superpowers

• 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

• Syrian Refugees: Allowing Stories to be told in the Classroom

  I have begun to think about how I would make sure that my practice is fair for helping Syrian Refugees in classrooms. First, I don’t know their stories, and can’t ever own them either. I think that there is pressure for teachers to know all, and be in complete control of the underlying stories that […]

  Deborah McCallum

  February 28, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education, social justice

  Classrooms, education, social justice, Stories, Syrian Refugees, teaching

• Innovation for New Pedagogies and Education Spaces

  

  I have been thinking a lot lately about the deeper ‘why’ behind the need for innovation in education. The deeper WHY behind the need for new spaces and also new initiatives including, but not limited to, makerspaces and genius hour. While I have led initiatives like these before, and believe in them, I wanted to […]

  Deborah McCallum

  January 29, 2016

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education

  Big Ideas in Education, education, Equity, FNMI, FNMI students, genius hour, innovation, Learning, makerspaces, new spaces for learning, oppression in education, social justice in education, spaces, teaching