Tag: Student 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

• It is not about Technology. It is about Pedagogy.

    In this era of rapid evolution of informational technology, new pedagogies are necessary to meet the demands of our connected world. This includes providing equal access and opportunity for students to partake, share and build knowledge in virtual spaces. Educators are creators, facilitators, curators and collaborators of knowledge in the 21st century, and technology plays a […]

  Deborah McCallum

  October 25, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, Ed-Tech, Educational Leadership, Educational Technology

  21st Century Technology, Big Ideas in Education, deep learning, edtech, education, Educational Technology, knowledge, Knowledge Building, Learning, new pedagogies for deep learning, Pedagogy, professional development, schemas, Student learning, teaching

• Social Media, Digital Citizenship, Critical Thinking

  We all know that social media platforms hold large databases of our personal information. Even when we think we have deleted a post…it still exists with the companies. Even though we don’t know what will happen with this data in the future, we need to engage in real critical inquiry about the ramifications for the […]

  Deborah McCallum

  September 6, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, Digital Citizenship, Facebook, Social Media

  21st Century Education, Big Ideas in Education, content aggregation, creativity, critical thinking, digital citizenship, Digital footprints, edtech, Educational Technology, Facebook, Facial Recognition, Graph Search, internet safety, Media Literacy, predicting future outcomes, privacy, Social Media, Student learning, student privacy, student safety

• New Pedagogies needed for Edtech Integration

  Technology has always existed, and there is nothing really new to teach our students. If we can consider this argument for a moment, and consider the implications of what it means for Education. If technology has always existed and evolved, then learning has also had to evolve across time and space. The newest and rapidly […]

  Deborah McCallum

  August 22, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, Ed-Tech, Educational Leadership, Educational Technology

  21st Century Technology, Big Ideas in Education, edtech, Educational Technology, Learning, New Pedagogies, new pedagogies for deep learning, Pedagogy, Student learning

• 5 Considerations for Welcoming Environments in our Schools

  Fostering welcoming environments in education is essential for improving learning and engagement. Schools can help acknowledge students by representing their cultural diversity. This can be done by embedding cultural symbols, and practices into our buildings, classrooms, and online environments that serve to help make students and parents feel welcome and important. However, it is a […]

  Deborah McCallum

  March 31, 2013

  Aboriginal, Best Practices, Big Ideas in Education, Character, Communication, Community, Culture & Caring, Welcoming Environments

  21st Century skills, Big Ideas in Education, Communication, culture, edtech, education, Educational Contexts, FNMI, FNMIed, knowledge, Learning, student engagement, Student learning, students, welcoming environments