#BIT16Reads
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Best BITs: Admiring administrators
What are the 3 qualities you admire most in your favourite school administrator ever? Here’s what our group inside TeachOntario said: “…openness, approachability, and excellent communication skills, an understanding of academic subjects, a belief in trauma-informed classrooms, and a positive, trusting attitude towards their teachers. I have had Principals whom I knew “had my back,”…
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Best BITs: Would you rather…
#BIT16Reads asks participants in the How We Learn by Benedict Carey book club: Would you say that you’d rather be a grade 9 student in the year 2016 or would you rather be a grade 9 student in the year that you were actually in grade 9….and why? Here are some of the more interesting…
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Best BITs: The role of the teacher
In secondary school we often see teachers as subject specialists. In elementary school we see teachers as generalists but facilitating many activities that cross subject boundaries. Authors Garfield Gini-Newman and Roland Case outline 3 contrasting foundational beliefs about teaching and learning, and the role of the teacher is listed in the discovery, didactic and thinking…
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Best BITs: The purpose of schooling
Authors Garfield Gini-Newman and Roland Case don’t go easy on the reader in the first chapter so I think it’s important to ease into the critical thinking with a bit of philosophy. I have often been criticized for being quick to jump at anything shiny and new in education so I found Chapter 1 to…
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Best BITs: Unleashing talent in your school
George Couros’s book is immensely read-able…his writer’s voice is intensely genuine and although there are big ideas that he presents, the reader never feels overwhelmed with jargon. So in a nutshell, George does quick recap of the first two parts of the book: Innovation is creating something better…the key to doing that is developing relationships. …
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Best BITs: Are you underwhelmed in online spaces?
In reading Participatory Culture in a Networked Era, I’m reflecting on how not much has really changed since the invention of forums in the 70s … not that I was lurking there, but really it goes like this: post discussion thread, reply to discussion thread, repeat. …Right? Henry Jenkins says:”… It is abundantly clear that…
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