category EdTech

Instead of holding our regular class this week, our cohort had the opportunity to attend an EdCamp. EdCamp is an organized gathering of educators from different schools, and with different roles, for the purpose of discussing a variety of education-based… Continue Reading →

During this week’s class, we discussed coding for children. In today’s world, technology is everywhere and expanding everyday. Integrating technology into our classroom is important because it exposes children to the copious amounts of technology, like coding, that is accessible… Continue Reading →

This week in class, we discussed distributed learning. Distributed learning is what we are experiencing during this pandemic. It is an instructional model that allows students and teachers to be in different places but still teach and learn the same… Continue Reading →

During this week’s class we had Tracy Humphries as a guest speaker. She is the founder and chair of the BCEd Access Society. The BCEd Access Society is a volunteer run organization serving families and students with disabilities. The organization… Continue Reading →

In our ever-growing digital society, the use of educational videos, and other online educational sources, is becoming more and more prevalent. Especially now, during the pandemic, when a majority of teaching is happening online. More than ever, teachers are teaching… Continue Reading →

This week, Jeff Hopkins, the founder and Principal of the Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry, spoke to our class. The Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry, or PSII for short, is an inquiry based, independent school in Victoria, BC…. Continue Reading →

We had a guest speaker named Trevor MacKenzie speak to the class this week about student inquiry. He spoke about the different types of student inquiries and had a great visual, which I will link below, that very clearly laid… Continue Reading →

This week we had Jesse Miller as a guest speaker. During his presentation, he spoke about privacy and safety in social media. Specifically, the expectations and policies concerning teachers and social media. He touched on the influences and uses of… Continue Reading →

In class this week, we learned about both multimedia learning theory, and image editing. This is some of the information that I learned and my main takeaways from the lesson.   Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning:   This theory explains… Continue Reading →