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Coding and Engineering Design Process in SNC1W: Practical strategies for classroom teachers
The new Grade 9 de-streamed Science (SNC1W) curriculum incorporates new areas of learning: Coding and the Engineering Design Process, both of which signal an increased STEM focus. Join us for this webinar in which we will learn basic coding with Micro:bits and how to use it in your classroom to solve problems and model concepts. …
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Creating, Making, Exploring: Using Digital Breakout Rooms to Encourage Global Competencies
This webinar will allow teachers the chance to see and create digital breakout rooms (think of the escape rooms that you’ve visited but online) that can be combined with a multitude of curriculum. These interactive and collaborative breakout rooms will empower students to be creators, deep thinkers, and to challenge their creative juices, while accessing …
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Using Online Tools To Capture Student Learning -May 22, 2018
Online tools offer educators an opportunity to engage students while capturing their learning, going beyond the traditional evaluation of products and enabling conversations and observations to provide a more complete vision regarding what individual students know and how they can demonstrate their learning. In this session teachers will be introduced to a variety of (free) …
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Curating for the Classroom
Have you ever walked into an Art Gallery and wondered how or why the curator put the collection together just so? As educators, we are constantly trying to help students get to just the right resource to spark their inquiry. How can we curate resources for our own learning, for our collective learning, or our …
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Inquiry-Based Learning
This webinar will help prepare educators to use inquiry-based learning with their students using a gradual release of responsibility, empowering students to make the decisions which will drive their own learning. Teachers, using a variety of web-based tools, will have an opportunity to explore examples and assignments which already use the inquiry process and to …