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Drawing Kids into Mathematics: Using Turtle Art and Scratch
Let your students amaze you with their mathematical minds as they have hard fun programming/coding with Scratch & Turtle Art! As they draw and create ever more complex projects, they will be drawn into being mathematicians. Learn how to help your students use these programs to explore coordinate geometry, angles, operations, variables, distances—and much more. Join …
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Mindomo Mindmapping for Ontario Learners
OSAPAC has announced the release of a new Mind Mapping tool, called Mindomo, that affords some exciting new possibilities for brainstorming, representing learning visually and collaborating with others. This is a web application that students access through a code that a teacher sets up in an easy process that is attached to their School Board …
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OSAPAC Resources – SAMR and Digital Citizenship
The Ontario Software Acquisition Program Advisory Committee (OSAPAC) researches, recommends and licenses software or digital resources for all students in Ontario. This past year, OSAPAC has developed two resources that will help support technology enhanced learning environments and this session will provide an overview of those two projects: SAMR and Digital Citizenship. SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, …
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Twitter 101
What is all the fuss about Twitter? How and why are educators using it? How do you move from lurking to sharing? What are the roles of hashtags and twitter chats? How might you use twitter in the classroom? Come to this beginner session to learn the tips and tricks of using Twitter as part …
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Inquiry & Multimedia: Are Students Really Constructing Knowledge?
Find out how journal writing, collaboration, scaffolding and information technologies can be brought to bear on student inquiry and knowledge construction. You will learn many techniques to develop students’ deep understanding of the content and of their thinking processes. Many students are engaged in inquiry-based projects and in creating ‘multimedia presentations’ to report their project findings. These …