Tag: sharing

• 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

  May 28, 2015

  Big Ideas in Education

  Better Together, Big Ideas in Education, collaborative inquiry, curating, Deborah McCallum, feedback, genius hour, Growth Mindsets, innovation, Integrative Thinking, Learning Commons, Make School different, Maker spaces, new pedagogies for deep learning, NPDL, Planning Time Teachers, sharing, Teacher-Librarian, TTOG

• ‘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

  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

• 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

  February 1, 2014

  21st Century Learning, Knowledge Building, Learning Commons, New Models of Learning

  Big Ideas in Education, collaboration, creation, curate, curating, cyberspace, edtech, education, Educational Technology, information in education, knowledege-building, knowledge, Learning Commons, librarian, Librarianship, Library, Net Neutrality, presenting, Research, share, sharing, virtual education, virtual spaces, virtual world