In Ontario, province-funded professional development allows teachers to choose—and design—their own learning opportunities.
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Minecraft Mathland - 2 views
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"Michael Fullan (2013) describes critical thinking as the "ability to design and manage projects, solve problems, and make effective decisions using a variety of tools and resources" (p. 9). Papert (1980) supports exercises that "open intellectual doors" (p. 63). Minecraft tasks can be used to create experiences that can be otherwise challenging to design, which according to Drake (2014), should address real-world problems that may not necessarily have one clear answer. Digital tools such as Minecraft demand higher order thinking skills, which include "the ability to think logically, and to solve ill-defined problems" and "formulating creative solutions and taking action" (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2016, p. 12)."
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Coding in the Elementary Grades - 3 views
Techthings.ca - Resources for Integration of Coding in Ontario Curriculum - 2 views
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"I've included links to some of the resources I've created for incorporating coding into the classroom. The resources in the last column show how a teacher might approach teaching a problem. Please contact me if you have any questions. Lisa Floyd (lisafloyd834@gmail.com, @lisaannefloyd on Twitter)"
Student Success/Learning to 18 - 2 views
Schools plan curriculum overhaul - Parentcentral.ca - 6 views
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A special advisory group is expected to propose a new blueprint by February, based on such input as a tough-talking missive from the Toronto District School Board that called the curriculum "a series of overly robust subject-based documents which are disconnected, overwhelming and full of content reflective of 20th century knowledge. "The curriculum does not engage students within their own realities, nor does it integrate the skills society hopes to see in a 21st-century learner," said the recent submission by a group of principals, teachers, superintendents and trustees.
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Karen Grose, the board's system superintendent, said it no longer makes sense to try to cram piles of facts into young minds.
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Our kids live in a world where they are immersed in content through things like Twitter and Google, so we don't want them memorizing facts they can access easily, but we want them to think about how to apply that knowledge, and how it affects how they live as citizens and workers," said Grose
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TEDxOntarioEd » About - 6 views
Time for debate on how Twitter, Facebook affect courts says Ontario's AG - Winnipeg Free Press - 0 views
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Edelson said he'd like to see a forum where senior journalists, judges and lawyers could get together and "throw around ideas" about whether social media tools should be controlled inside the courtroom.
OESS Data Base Screen - 0 views
Ontario Math Links: Math Links for Week Ending Oct. 6th, 2017 - 0 views
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"I have added a new page to this blog. I called it Notable Links. It compiles many of the teacher generated sites (Estimation 180, WODB etc) as well as many teacher blogs where they often share resources. It's by no means a complete list and I am sure I will miss some but I wanted to have a running list of the best stuff somewhere (if only for me)"
Coding & Computational Thinking in the Classroo... | TeachOntario - 1 views
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"One of the most exciting parts of my day as a resource teacher and co-teacher is to spend time with students who are in the midst of thinking through a problem and figuring something out. One of the most effective thinking and learning environments is MIT's Scratch environment. Late last fall, I was working with students in a grade 8 class. Some of them were taking on the challenge of building a working analogue clock in Scratch. Others were figuring out multiple methods by which circles and disks could be drawn in Scratch. "
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