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Open Education: Necessary Disruption to the Culture

These past few weeks, we have been going down the rabbit hole of open education and it has really changed my outlook on how and ways in which educational materials and teaching resources can be shared with the larger learning… Continue Reading →

Educator’s Digital Literacy Toolkit

As education and society progress more and more into the digital sphere, it is of the utmost importance to teach and learn how one utilizes these tools and moves through digital spaces with purpose, curiosity, and positivity. At running the… Continue Reading →

The Future of Modality in the Classroom

Through the lens of a teacher, the everchanging technological landscape can open up feelings of excitement, curiosity, destabilization, terror, and uncertainty all at the same time. Not only for concerns of funding, appropriate training/resources, and keeping up; but also the… Continue Reading →

July 3 – Where am I and Where could I be?

Prior to this course, I have never been introduced to the concept of “currere”, yet it has provided me a space to reflect on the my exact place in the contexts that I occupy and have occupied. I physically learning… Continue Reading →

Fundamental Math Skills in a Montessori Classroom

This is it – my final Montessori class for the year. Our final topic is regarding mathematics education in a Montessori classroom. If students are self-paced, how does a teacher mitigate the range of student abilities, and how do they… Continue Reading →

Part 3 – Sharing Success, Ministry Updates, and Next Steps

For our second and final meeting, the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Literacy Supports Development Team met on Zoom this time to discuss our how our lessons went and our next steps. Nick Poeschek shared that summary guides regarding online learning,… Continue Reading →

Part 2 – Reflections on launching the lesson

Long story short, it was a great success! I tested the lesson a grade 3/4/5 Montessori class at my school. They were approaching a natural transition where they were finishing up a unit, so they seemed like the perfect candidates… Continue Reading →

Part 1 – It’s all coming together now: Learning Design and working with the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Literacy Supports Development Team

In another episode of “Krystal spreads herself too thin because it seemed like a good idea at the time”, I recently applied and was selected to join the BCTF and Ministry of Education’s collaborative team to develop supports related to… Continue Reading →

Minecraft AI and Advocacy with Nicole Cruz

In preparation for term three, I have been in conversations with a few of my colleagues to help facilitate a cross-curricular social studies learning opportunity through Minecraft. It is a “Pacific Northwest Coast Experience” in which students are transported back… Continue Reading →

Face-to-face, screen-to-screen: What do we gain, and what do we lose?

Growing up with in-person instruction as my norm, learning online was never an ideal situation, nor was it desired. I was always under the impression that online learning would be too convenient to not be held accountable for missing assignments… Continue Reading →

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