Tag: Unit Planning

• The Big Ideas in Education and STEAM

    How do we plan for STEAM? We start with the Big Ideas.   Attached is a chart I created to link the Big Ideas in Education with S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math). Big Ideas in Education STEAM This chart is specifically geared toward the Ministry of Ontario curricula that address STEAM subjects, and specifically […]

  Deborah McCallum

  July 28, 2016

  #feedbackfriendly, Big Ideas in Education, makerspaces, STEAM

  #feedbackfriendly, Big Ideas in Education, collaboration, Cross-curricular planning, Deborah McCallum, Feedback Friendly Classroom, innovation, lesson planning, Long Range Planning, Maker spaces, makerspaces, STEAM, STEM, Unit Planning

• 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

• Question Matrix for Instructional Design

  This is a Question Matrix I created to help to explore the curriculum based on important questions we need to be asking ourselves when designing our programs. It was inspired by the work of Dillon (2009). It is very big and complicated – perhaps quite impractical – but it is also very organized and comprehensive. […]

  Deborah McCallum

  July 6, 2016

  Instructional Design

  Big Ideas in Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Matrix, Instructional Design, lesson planning, Planning tool for educators, Question Matrix for Curriculum Design, Questioning in Education, Rich questions, Unit Planning