Here it is! The long-awaited-for second technology inquiry project post. For this blog post, I chose to look into a master's thesis paper a UVic Masters of Education alumna wrote that Dr Valerie Irvine directed me to entitled "Learning in the Outdoor Classroom: Integrating Nature, Mobile Technology, and Constructivist Learning to Support Young Children". To …
Continue reading Technology Inquiry Project Post 2: Gathering Research
Hello everyone, Sorry to those who have been waiting for this week's post from Shaylin or I about how the worlds of networked technology and outdoor education can be blended for elementary or middle school students. I had written up an over 900-word blog post for it on Tuesday, which got deleted somehow just before …
Hello everyone, Just wanted to let you all know that I have now updated all of my current posts about my family history! I recommend checking out my posts about my grandparents and my great-grandparents (including my part 2 of the great-grandparents post) if you have the password to see all of the new pictures I …
Continue reading Week 3: Updated Posts about my Grandparents and Great-Grandparents
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A few days my classmates and I had the privilege to visit the Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry (PSII) in downtown Victoria. PSII (@PSIIvictoria ) is a high school that runs very differently than the high school my peers or I attended; students don't go to classes from 8:30-2:50pm every day, there really is not …
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Today marks the official beginning of the technology inquiry project Shaylin and I will be tackling together. I'm really excited to announce that we will be studying if, and how technology can be used in collaboration with teaching outdoor education. Shaylin wrote a blog post that describes a few more of our learning objectives for …
Continue reading Technology Inquiry Project: Learning Objectives
As a part of yesterday's class, we had a video conference call with Ian Landy, (@technolandy) a principal at an elementary school in Powell River, BC who is very interested in using technology in the classroom and also about moving away from formal assessment methods in the classroom. It was the first video conference call …
Continue reading Reflections on Discussion with Ian Landy on Descriptive Formative Assessment
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