The 21CL team has been exploring different means of creating interactive templates and tools to use in your practice. The results of this work have culminated in a number of different initiatives that we will be sharing, both in the coming weeks, and further into the next school year (https://share.school, https://hwdsb.press, H5P, Explain Everything Templates). …
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Week 3: Components of a Transformed Learning Environment
The shift to a “Technology-Accelerated” (Fullan) inquiry-based learning environment requires personalized, job-embedded professional development opportunities that meet the teachers where they are, rather than large group presentations that fail to differentiate for the broad spectrum of adoption seen within our classrooms. Within each one of these six pillar components there exists a continuum of adoption …
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Week 1: Transforming Learning Everywhere
We’ve started distributing iPads to the students. This project, which began at seven elementary schools in the North end of Hamilton last year with teacher devices and classroom kits for approx 70 Grade 4-6 classrooms, has now expanded to include Henderson Secondary, and Mountain Secondary, and will see iPads deployed to all students and teachers …
Summer Institute Resources
We will continue to populate this blog post with additional links as we process through your questions and feedback. Here is a link to the Google Drive folder in which we have shared a number of slide decks from the presentations: Summer Institute Resources Airplay Information Create an App Store Account without a Credit Card …
Class Act using iOS Devices at HWDSB
A team of writers have converted the Communication Services department’s Phonological Awareness Intervention kit to iOS format, using an app called Nearpod. Watch the video to understand a bit more about how this works in a classroom setting. Once you have a Nearpod username (which you can sign up for using the free nearpod app …
Did you see them taping you?
I got a direct message the other day on Twitter from someone who I follow. It was a warning about a potentially harmful video about me, floating around the internet. It seemed out of character for someone with whom I have not previously messaged with, to take such a personal interest in my online reputation. …