Tag: Knowledge Building

• Makerspaces for All

  

      Over this last year, I have had the opportunity to understand what Education for All, Learning for All, differentiation and equity on deeper levels due to working in a Makerspace. Learning is about problem solving, creating positive math mindsets, constructing and building knowledge through hands on activities, and most of all, promoting equity. No […]

  Deborah McCallum

  October 9, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education, makerspaces

  Big Ideas in Education, Constructionism, Differentiation, Education for All, Equity, Growth Mindsets, Knowledge Building, makerspaces, Positive Math Mindsets, problem solving, STEAM

• 14 Considerations for Inquiry Based Learning

    Inquiry is essential. The fact is that students come to school with partial knowledges.  But the curriculum documents themselves do not address the parts that students know or don’t know. It has been built to present to us about the privileged people and only the most successful moments in history according to those people. […]

  Deborah McCallum

  February 20, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education, Inquiry Based Learning

  assessment for learning, Big Ideas in Education, curriculum, feedback, Feedback Friendly Classroom, Geography, History, Inquiry, Inquiry Based Learning, Knowledge Building, Learning, Pedagogy, social studies, Student Knowledge, teaching

• Holistically integrating ICT with the help of the Library

  

  Originally created and shared by Deborah McCallum on https://sites.google.com/site/guidetoholisticeducation/librarianship: The purpose of this post is to provide examples of holistic instructional strategies involving information technology in any learning environment. Rather than solely focusing on objectives, assessment outcomes and a heirarchy of subject matter, which are important, the role of the Teacher-Librarian is to help learners […]

  Deborah McCallum

  August 5, 2015

  Big Ideas in Education, Learning Commons

  21st Century Education, Big Ideas in Education, blended learning, Canadian Library Association, content curation, Deborah McCallum, edtech, Holistic Learning, Information Technology, Inquiry Based Learning, Knowledge Building, Learning Commons, Librarianship, makered, makerspaces, Ontario Library Association, Together for Learning

• ‘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

• Is Curriculum a Living Organism, or a Fixed Machine?

  

  Is Curriculum a Living Organism, or a Fixed Machine? The world is changing rapidly. Just think about how we have moved from an Industrial revolution, to a knowledge economy that requires new skill sets. Knowledge is being built and re-built and changed on a daily basis. Facts can be looked up on the internet. Therefore, […]

  Deborah McCallum

  April 3, 2015

  Big Ideas in Education

  Big Ideas in Education, constructivism, curriculum, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, FNMI, FNMIed, knowledge, Knowledge Building, Learning Commons, New Pedagogies, Pedagogy

• Knowledge Building in the Learning Commons

  Knowledge Building in the Learning Commons   Knowledge Building in the Learning Commons By Deborah McCallum “Knowledge building is perhaps the most important skill of the 21st Century” McCallum aligns the knowledge building process to major ideas and the standards from the new document Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons published […]

  Deborah McCallum

  May 24, 2014

  Knowledge Building, Learning Commons, Library

  21st century, Big Ideas in Education, Canadian Library Association, Collaboration in Education, Deborah McCallum, Knowledge Building, Librarianship, Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons, Treasure Mountain 2014

• 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

• SAMR, Collaborative Inquiry & Tech enabled Learning

  Earlier this year I began a collaborative teacher inquiry that would set up a technological framework for supporting literacy in the lives of our students, and increasing knowledge. My framework fit very nicely with Ruben Puentedura’s SAMR model. The following is an example of one way I am incorporating the SAMR into literacy. Different Entry […]

  Deborah McCallum

  April 20, 2014

  Educational Technology, Inquiry, Literacy

  Big Ideas in Education, Blogging, collaborative inquiry, Deborah McCallum, digital publishing, edtech, education, feedback, Forest of reading, Google, identity, knowledge, Knowledge Building, Literacy, Ontario Library Association, Reubin Puentedura, SAMR, Storify, student engagement, Student Voice, teacher inquiry, Technology, technology enabled learning environments, Twitter