This week was very interesting and focused heavily on digital literacy in the classroom. We had two presentations, one, specific to what SD62 is doing for digital literacy, and another that was more general for teachers in any district. The first presentation was from Ana Galac, the digital literacy coordinator for SD62. She started off…
For this class we were given the opportunity to go downtown to PSII (Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry) and learn about what they do as well as get a tour of the school. I was surprised at how interesting the whole trip was. For the tour, we had one of the teachers (the founder…
I have now completed some research as to different mindfulness practices that I can try out and I’ve planned out how I’m going to execute my project, starting this Friday. Each week I will record my initial thoughts and feelings about the practice after the first day of completeing it (Fridays), as well as revisiting…
In this class we learned a lot about AI and other technologies as found in a classroom. The class started off with a presentation from Darcy Mcnee who is the district leader for curriculum and innovation in Saanich School District, SD63. Her presentation was very engaging and talked about the incorporation of technology in classrooms,…
Week one of this course covered lots of topics, and also talked about the structure of the course and the assignments within it. The class started off by covering different types of consent as well as FIPPA which works to protect personal information, ensure transparency, inform people of how their data is used, and the…
Welcome to my inquiry project! For my project, I chose to do it on mindfulness. The reasoning behind it is that I took a class in high school called ‘yoga and mindfulness’ which I quite enjoyed taking. I found it to be quite relaxing and found myself feeling more at ease both in the class…