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The Vision for DL is to  create a quality, dynamic and engaging learning environment that all students in  the province can access.  Instruction through e-learning methodologies offers  possibilities for sophisticated, interactive, and engaging learning options that  address the ideals for a BC Graduate, and shifts the classroom and learning  beyond brick walls and fixed schedules.

This course will require you to be fairly independent. Actually interdependent is a more appropriate term. You'll be learning on your own but are encouraged to work with each other whenever suitable. 

Often students are interested in things we don't have time to explore in class. This project allows them to do so and reinforces the big idea that the best inquiry begins with high interest.

Environmental Inquiry* is an overarching approach to Environmental Education* that integrates Inquiry-based Learning*, Experiential Learning*, Integrated Learning*, and Stewardship* into a dynamic and cohesive pedagogical framework.

For these and other reasons, it is difficult to provide a single, comprehensive guide to studying online. Different institutions have different requirements, different course designs and different sets of regulations that need to be followed. So rather than write a guide to studying that will end up being too general for most students, I provide below links to excellent online study guides that are publicly available from some of the better online programs.

" This guide is an unusually thoughtful and valuable resource for teachers. It is distinguished by a powerful focus on the integrity and quality of projects - not just doing them, but doing them well.

In a nutshell, digital storytelling is "using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share and value the stories of individuals and communities, in ways that improve our lives"

The 21st Century Fluencies are not about technical prowess, they are critical thinking skills, and they are essential to living in this multimedia world. We call them fluencies for a reason. To be literate means to have knowledge or competence. To be fluent is something a little more, it is to demonstrate mastery and to do so unconsciously and smoothly.

INTRODUCTION New literacy in the Web 2.0 world (Churchill) Digital World: Kids Today (Welding)

The intentions are to unlock the potential of students to learn in innovative ways.  There is the possibility that what is learned through this school will find its way into our traditional schools to increase innovation throughout.

here are my take-aways from that response. What would you add to it? You must first set a vision of what's possible in play. Identify that the need(s) available can be met by strategic use of staffing and technologies available. Acknowledge past efforts that failed to be implemented fully. Connect with powerful stakeholders (district department directors), as well as those "in the trenches" (teachers and students) Align the plan with standards and goals at the state level Connect with stakeholders and communicate in an ongoing manner. And, a point that David shared explicitly with me, "Run to the resistors" rather than away from them. To me, this means embrace resistance viewpoint as one that can enlighten the conversation rather than stop it.

Last night I attended an information session given by District Principal Stephen Wiffin and Principal David Truss from Coquitlam, School District #43.   Together they shared their vision and plans for The Inquiry Hub, a new high school set to open in September. 

The project was called 'Cause We Care' - a pun I thought particularly witty, since the Driving Question was 'How can we raise awareness in our local community about a charity or cause we feel passionately about?' Whilst I did develop the driving question the students were responsible for the following: deciding on team members and team name, selecting a charity/cause to focus on, their investigation sources and mode of sharing findings (focus questions can be on this document: Cause We Care), the products to demonstrate research, raise awareness and legitimate contribution to cause/charity, their presentation of learning, including sharing learning with experts, defending ideas and celebrating their chosen charity, the Habits of Mind to master for the duration of the project and the outcomes from the Stage 5 English Syllabus they will master during the project ( I gave them a list of the 11 outcomes and the related dot-points, was an eye-opening experience for them!).

what a typical day would look like at the NLC.  One big advantage of this program will be the integrated approach to the curriculum.  The learning outcomes from the grade 8 and/or grade 9 curriculums will be identified and over the course of the school year students will be covering the entire grade curriculum through practice and application in their project work.

In service of its core values of innovation, individualization and personalization, and metacognitive skill development, and with the reality of the system and the unique needs of adolescents in mind, the leaders developed a five-prong model: 1.     Challenge-based modules 2.     Online learning 3.     Advisory 4.     Field Experience 5.     Core Experiences

Information and communications technologies (ICT) policies in schools have two dimensions. One is to ensure that students are protected from pernicious materials on the Internet. The other is to enable student access to the extensive resources on the Internet for learning and teaching. While these two dimensions are not intrinsically in conflict, in actuality, such can become the case.

Comprehensive reporting involves assessing students using three standards: established, emerging and developing. This style of reporting has been used at the elementary school level for some time. But when students reach junior high, most jurisdictions switch to letter grades or marks.

isn't it time that we had an honest national conversation about online learning? With countless studies showing success rates in online courses of only 50 per cent-as opposed to 70-to-75 percent for comparable face-to-face classes- isn't it time we asked ourselves some serious questions?

Blended-learning models Blended learning is gravitating toward six models. The six distinct clusters each share design elements that differentiate them from the others in terms of teacher roles, scheduling, physical space, and delivery methods. As innovators develop new versions of blended learning, the contours of these clusters will continue to evolve.

The fact is that there is a purpose in protecting a level of F2F and real-time interaction even in an online program. In education, the components of online and F2F are stronger together than apart. The power is in a Blended Learning equation: Face-to-Face + Synchronous Conversations + Asynchronous Interactions = Strong Online Learning Environment