As a contract public sector employee I am not sure what premiere designate Doug Ford’s public sector hiring freeze will mean for me exactly, but I can only presume it won’t be good. Like many other young professionals, I hop from one employment contract to another in hopes that I will someday win the ‘employment… Continue reading Hostile Policy: Ford’s Public Sector Hiring Freeze
I really like the idea of using digital story telling in education. In K-12, I think it would work be a great tool to encourage students to combine the art of technology with story development. It could also be used as a tool for self-reflection and critique. In an English class, for example, a student… Continue reading Digital Story-Telling
Changing Gears 2012: Rejecting the “Flip” Perhaps I am a bit behind on the times because in all honesty the concept of the “flipped classroom” is relatively new to me. That being said, my first impressions of the idea are mixed. In a post-secondary setting I can see some benefits to teaching with a partially… Continue reading The Flipped Classroom
Great Schools: Change Everything In Great Schools: Change Everything, David Socal recounts his time at an alternative high school located in an ‘inner suburb’ of New York City called New Rochelle. The school was designed for students who were not functioning within the standard school environment and was based on a program called the “3Is”… Continue reading Student Centered Learning
The Wonderful World of Education 