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…
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Critical Thinking and Elementary Media Literacy
In October I was taking part in OTF’s Critical Thinking Conference with teachers of all subject areas and grades who are new to the Critical Thinking Framework as defined by the Critical Thinking Consortium (TC2). Garfield Gini-Newman was the lead presenter, along with some other TC2 folk, and my colleague Peter Skillen and I are…
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I’ve just come up for air after an amazing three days facilitating a Digital Storytelling Camp for the Ontario Teacher’s Federation and as a member of the ECOO Subject Association. I was really excited to have 3 days to work with teachers, a nice change from my usual after school workshop scenarios and looking forward…
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OTF/ECOO Conference 21st Century Learning
I just returned from a wonderful Friday/Saturday conference in Toronto where OTF hosted an event and had Will Richardson return to give everyone some big idea thinking about how to ‘narrow’ our classroom walls and move our students out of the physical classroom and into the 21st century classroom. I was able to spend one…
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Learning Zone 