Tag: modern learning

• 5 Steps for Planning the Big Ideas in Education – with Pokemon Go

  Always start with the Big Ideas in education when you plan your days, weeks, units, and years.  Avoid starting with Pokemon Go. When you start with the technology, you risk gaps in learning – lest your practice become about the tool and not the curriculum for student achievement. Does this mean not to use Technologies […]

  Deborah McCallum

  July 27, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education, Pokemon Go

  Big Ideas, Big Ideas in Education, curriculum, Deborah McCallum, edtech, Inquiries, lesson planning, modern learning, Pokemon, Pokemon Go, PokemonGo, PokemonGoEdu, problem solving, student achievement, Student learning, Unit Planning, wicked problems

• Globalization: Friend or Foe of Modern Learning?

    Globalization has contributed to an amazing realm of possibility for modern education. But we can’t always assume it is always beneficial. We need to take critical stances as educators, and help ourselves, and our learners, to question what people say and write online. Question the motivations of others. While Globalization is amazing and the […]

  Deborah McCallum

  April 23, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education, critical literacy

  Big Ideas in Education, critical literacy, critical stance, FNMI, Globalization, Growth Mindsets, modern learning, Native storytelling, questioning, social justice, teachers as change-agents, TRC, Truth and Reconciliation Commission