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This past Friday, I had the pleasure of visiting a technology and innovation high school in Victoria BC. Although I’m studying to be a an elementary teacher, visiting this high school gave me so much insight into the benefits that inquiry based education can have. In this school, kids were not formatted into neat boxes…
One of this week’s main concepts and the general overarching theme of this course is the concept of open education. Through the conference call with Valerie Irvine and Jessie Miller, I have gained more insight into how open education, or specifically Creative Commons, works and is an extremely beneficial resource for educational tools. Miller, who…
Have you ever stopped to notice how the light shimmers through the trees or how the birds sound in the morning versus in the evening? Do these things really matter, or are they just the mundane aspects of life that are found in our world? There is a concept called The Art of Noticing, first…
After watching Most Likely to Succeed, I was struck by how the future of education must change. In the past, education has often been a linear track to forming good employees who will go on to work the system of the assembly line or 9-5 style career. Yet, in an innovative technology school where the…
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This is where Assignment 2: Educational Technology Resource Development will be presented when complete.
This is where you share your updates and creations for Assignment 1: Free Inquiry Project.