I’ve been thinking about what else I could do to help students with understanding fractions. Since there are still times that I myself get confused, what else is there that I can do to help students understand. One of the articles explains how important it is to guide students to make connections between division and [...]
Audio Recordings and Podcasts In our media class, we learned about creating audio recordings that could be used for podcasts. In this case, we chose a word for our #onewordONT, created by Julie Balen, to guide our 2019 year. Here is the link to my audio recording; I chose the word GRIT. Grit means having resilience, perseverance, [...]
https://youtu.be/wsikMej-Axk Media Make # 3 For my third media make I decided to make a sketchnote. After seeing Helen Dewaard's awesome sketchnote on Tips to Integrate Media Literacy into the Classroom I became interested in creating my own. Shauna Burnie also gave me some useful tips on how to make my first sketchnote and showed me [...]
Developing Math Models For this second math log, my focus will be on the question: why might it be beneficial to spend time developing and working with mathematical models (e.g. the number line, open array, etc.)? What do these models help students to do? How could you construct a particular model with a P/J class? [...]
My First PSA Last week in my Media class, we were given the opportunity to create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) video. The purpose of a PSA is to raise awareness on a certain issue (Warfield). We were asked to make a PSA about Lakehead and what we like about the school. We only had [...]
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Over the past few weeks I’ve had the amazing opportunity to work as an intern at the Orillia Public Library for Coding with Robots. The children, as well as myself, have learned so much about coding, and the ways robots can be incorporated in the classroom. There were some children that already knew so much [...]
This is my very first word art that I created in MDL4000 Media and Digital Literacy class! The words on the hands are words that describe what media literacy means to us. I chose the coloured students' hands as part of the word art because it is now that we as future teachers need to [...]
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