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21st Century Fluencies


My October 19th, PSA day was spent with a group of teachers at a session on Professional Development Online (Creating PLNs) We started the day by watching the keynote speaker for CUEBC, Ian Jukes, via live-streamed video. His focus was on change: changes in our society, changes in in our workplace and as a result the need for change in education. 

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Community Service Strange but True Multimedia Story: 6th graders!

Strange but True: This is what can happen when adults set up opportunities for kids to serve the school and community within the school day. I vow to focus on this this year!
  • Tell 11 year olds to clean their rooms and you get long faces, sighs, and often uncleaned rooms.
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“Can I – TEACH South Africa ?”

I went through the project named TEACH South Africa by Runganayagie Nailini Reddy. The report is quite methodical and systematic.

 It starts with opening remarks which proves to be a precursor to whatever is going to be described and done further in the report.
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Why Connectivism?

I’ve not blogged in over a month, and I have a serious case of disconnection. I’m irritable about it. Really. I’m not so pleasant just now, and I think a large part of it has to do with my loss of connection with my writing, my thoughts, my conversation.…

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jitcanin12 2012-10-20 17:03:00

Online learning, powered by broadband technology and the other new tools of the Information Age, is making it possible for all human beings to overcome barriers, to access the education they need to succeed, to step inside online classrooms, to learn from top teachers, and to improve one’s life and achieve our personal ambitions as a fundamental dream in the 21st Century.
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jitcanin12 2012-10-19 23:12:00

This week I have learnt a very good handy and useful tool to be used to store and share links.  I will certainly use this tool for my online teaching and in-class hybrid teaching. I would recommend it to my students as well to share links with me instead of sending them to me through e-mail.
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Changing How We Teach – It is a Process!

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In getting ready to co-present with my principal at Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Regional School  Divisional PD Day, I was inspired to write the following post on why it is important to change how we teach our students today.

 I realize that for most educators time is at a premium and so too are the demands to met the needs of all the children in the classroom.
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#opened12 – The First Pitch

The Voice By Shel Silverstein
There is a voice inside of you
that whispers all day long.
“I feel that this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong.”
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
or wise man can decide
what’s right for you – just listen to
the voice that speaks inside.

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