Tag: sharing
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To Benefit Student Learning: Facilitating New Opportunities for Collaborative Inquiry, Action Research, Innovation
Today, it is imperative that we make changes to our traditional school paradigms to meet the learning needs of our students for today and their futures. We need to reimagine how we structure our schools to promote ongoing daily collaboration opportunities for teachers for the purposes of planning, with the explicit goal of improving student […]
Deborah McCallum; Big Ideas in Education
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‘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; Big Ideas in Education
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Cultivating Knowledge in Virtual Spaces
There are vast amounts of ‘blank’ spaces in our virtual worlds. The empty virtual spaces will eventually be filled with knowledge. But who’s knowledge will have the privilege of being promoted? I believe that this is an issue that we need to be concerned about particularly in light of current events in the issue […]
Deborah McCallum; Big Ideas in Education
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