#BIT16Reads
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#BIT16Reads Presentation: Building school cultures that support the integration of technology
The full presentation is here: http://prezi.com/jgeyqwqmql4d/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy Our live results are here: https://embed.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/oJYnHTfT4LSoN7L?controls=none&short_poll=true
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The Best Bits of #BIT16Reads
Trying to grow and sustain a book club over 5 months has been a real experiment. It all culminates in the biggest and best conference on educational technology in Ontario (maybe Canada!) which is the Bring IT Together conference. If you’ve never been before, you’ll find a whole bunch of people who want to enable…
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Best BITs: Preventing discrimination in schools
This week I’ve been focused on the overall message when reading pages 98 to 113 about how discrimination is embedded in the structures of our schools. I feel very protective of public education and how it needs to be accessible to all who attend. Specifically, authors Zac Chase and Chris Lehmann highlight the barriers to…
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Best BITs: Wrestling with math in School 2.0
I wrestle with math. There was a time when I was almost deemed gifted in math in grade 7 and then my grade 8 teacher proposed the concept of integers and it just blew my mind apart. Later in grade 10 there was that time when I skipped math 23 times and obviously missed a…
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Best BITs: What should school look like?
Zac Chase and Chris Lehmann ask us: What do you think school should be doing? What is the role of school in the modern world? What does success look like? Leah Kearney, Kristy Luker and I took these questions apart a bit. Here’s how it went: LEAH: I posed this very question to my Faculty of…
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Best BITS: What are your learning rules?
Author Benedict Carey made this quick video to summarize some the findings he uncovered when writing his book “How We Learn”. Benedict Carey: unlearn everything you’ve learned about learning from frank on Vimeo. As a teacher and/or as a parent, what are some of the learning structures you put in place? Are there methods you…
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