This week, we were talking a lot about accessibility within schools and school districts. We watched a couple videos about accessibility. The first video that we watched was about what accessibility is and looks like from the perspective of people who are most affected by it. They described that accessibility isn’t just for people who…
This week we learnt all about gamification of learning and computational thinking. At the beginning of class we were taught about the 4 pillars of computational thinking: decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithm. Decomposition refers to breaking down complex problems into smaller, more manageable parts. Pattern recognition is as it implies, identifying similarities, trends, and…
This week our POD groups presented our mini presentations on our inquiry topics and the research we have conducted thus far. The topics that were covered are internet safety, video game effects, gender identity, screentime impacts, chatbots, gamified learning (my group’s topic), and social media impacts. All of these topics related to material that may…
This week we were given the opportunity to attend two professional development sessions presented by Focused Ed. Focused Ed is a website that provides many digital literacy resources to educators, students, and guardians. The two sessions that I attended were on cybersecurity, as well as privacy essentials. The first session I attended was on cybersecurity,…
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…
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…