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Thinking Routines – Definitely great for remote learning!

By: bsherry April 10, 2020August 9, 2021

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During the teaching of the AQ Course – Integration of Information and Computer Technology in Instruction, I often introduce students to the work of Ron Ritchhart and Project Zero from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. I’ve written more comprehensively about collaboration with colleagues that started my learning, the book Making Thinking Visible and an especially…

Critical Thinking Defined

By: bsherry November 24, 2018August 9, 2021

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Critical thinking is something that we are striving for in ourselves as educators, and as a goal for our students, but it can be a complex concept to grasp. I am liking this definition from The Foundation For Critical Thinking because it’s one that could be used as is, or paraphrased, for students of a variety…

The Nature of Learning – OECD

By: bsherry June 15, 2017August 13, 2017

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It’s always great to go back to the science of learning to underpin everything we do as educators. A fascination for how people learn led me to an undergraduate degree in Psychology, and this has served me so well as a prerequisite to teaching, but I realize that many other educators may not have had…

#IICTI Learning @MakerEd Toronto

By: bsherry July 11, 2016August 9, 2016

Building Relationships and Developing People, constructionism, constructivism, Developing the Organization to Support Desired Practices, Improving the Instructional Program, innovation, learning, Ontario Leadership Framework, PD, Project Based Learning, teaching, technology#makered, iictiLeave a Comment

It was great to visit the York School this week to attend #MakerEdTo. This was a fantastic opportunity to connect the #iicti AQ course members to a network of educators interested in constructivist and constructionist uses of technology. An added bonus was that they got to hear all about Seymour Papert from the Keynote Speaker…

Invent To Learn – A Must Read for Schools

By: bsherry May 26, 2015September 4, 2015

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Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager, Ph.D One of the greatest joys of being a connected learner is the fact that I’m meeting so many friends from all over the world who are also people from whom I learn so much. Meeting them virtually sometimes leads…

Our Learning Commons gets a maker space addition!

By: bsherry April 2, 2015September 4, 2015

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In a few days, I’m taking on a new role with a secondment to the Ministry of Ontario in the 21st Century Learning Unit. I’m feeling bittersweet about the new role; sad to be leaving my school and all of the wonderful students, teachers and parents I’ve come to know in my short time as…

Knowledge WITH technology: A case for intelligent learning

By: bsherry April 1, 2015January 10, 2019

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I came across this post today where Donna Fry mentions thinking about twitter as a library. This reminded me of some related thinking I had been doing back in 2005 when I was considering the role of technology with the analogy of the ‘library’. I thought it might be fun to dig it up and…

NEW! Mindomo Mind Mapping for Ontario Learners

By: bsherry November 28, 2014December 1, 2014

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OSAPAC has announced the release of a new Mind Mapping tool, called Mindomo, that affords some exciting new possibilities for demonstrations of learning and collaboration. This is a web application that students will access through a code that a teacher sets up in an easy process that is attached to their School Board email address. …

Thanking our Minds on Media Presenters!

By: bsherry October 29, 2012October 29, 2012

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Thanks to Facilitators for Excellent Minds On Media at ECOO12 We want to thank, and to celebrate, the facilitators at Educational Computing Organization of Ontario’s Minds On Media event held on Wednesday, October 24th. This year we had a full house of 120 participants and 9 centres! It was a hive of activity and the…

Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century Conference

By: bsherry February 15, 2011July 8, 2011

constructivism, media, PD, technology, web2.0minds on media, otf, pln, web 2.03 Comments

Whew! I’ve returned from a whirlwind of 3 days of learning at OTF’s latest conference: Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century and as usual, my brain is full of new learning, not only from the keynote presenters, Will Richardson and Garfield Gini-Newman, but from my own network. I’m a little late getting to this…