Rethinking Literacy

It's time to move teaching and learning into the 21st century in a balanced, holistic and relevant way that is culturally proficient and pedagogically responsible.

20 April 2010

The most amazing commercial...

A friend of mine sent this video to me in an attachment. I just had to post it and I'm sure we can figure out the literacy connections l...

18 April 2010

Web 2.0 Video

To Facebook or NOT to Facebook...

It's a whopper of a question, not mention a major bone of contention. Like everyone else, more and more teachers are participating in so...

A Vision of the 21st Century Learner

One of the predominant themes in my blog has been learning in the 21st century. Recently, I was involved in a meeting about how we can truly...

12 April 2010

New Dove Commercial

I absolutely love the new Dove commercial. Lots of media literacy learning here... Also a great clip - an oldie but a goodie!

09 April 2010

I Really Needed This...

For the last couple of days I had been working with a colleague to prepare for a co-teaching opportunity with a Grade 11 World Religion clas...

Another Year, Another Test

For the past two years, I have been supporting teachers who have been preparing students to write the OSSLT. I have encountered the expected...

08 April 2010

It's a Done Deal

It's official. I've decided to go back to the classroom after two years in my role as a Program Resource Teacher. I figure a couple ...

08 March 2010

Lesson Study - Professionally Speaking - March 2010

I was really excited to read this article in this month's issue of Professionally Speaking. It's really fantastic to read that profe...

27 January 2010

iWonder. iLearn. iKnow.

iWonder. iLearn. iKnow. Home - iWonder iLearn iKnow @ Brebeuf I'm currently working on a proposal for an action-research project when I ...

23 January 2010

Tools used for good but we tell kids to make them invisible!

You know, I really do understand why it is that administrators and teachers perceive cell phones and iPhones to be a nuisance at school. Kid...

18 January 2010

Haiti Quake Another Reason Why Critical Literacy is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Important...

Father Mario showed this video during his homily at mass on Sunday: I couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing. An alleged man of ...

08 January 2010

Professional Reading for Teachers

This is a list of some professional reading that I think would really benefit teachers who are interested in critical literacy and teaching ...

Student Directed Learning Notes

This posting excites me for two reasons: 1. I finally learned how to upload a document that wasn't a power point using Slideshare, and 2...

Theories of Teaching and Learning: The Staged Self-Directed Learning Model, G.Grow.

Lately, I've been completely engrossed in some research I've been doing about student-directed learning. Interestingly enough, the i...

06 January 2010

2000-2009: The FAKE Decade?

I always find it interesting how the media, in particular, reflects on the previous year or decade in this case after another new year comes...

04 January 2010

Get your hands on Wetpaint!

C21 Learning Home - C21 Learning In doing some research for a project at work, I've been mucking around with Wetpaint - a website/wiki ...

14 December 2009

Some of My Favourite Picture Books - Great for all Ages

I have always loved picture books. I've used them with students of all ages for a variety of purposes. When I taught grade 11 Parenting,...

13 December 2009

Student Engagement is VITAL

Whenever I think about what "student engagement" means, I almost always think to a specific scence from the film Sisterhood , whe...

One Step at a Time...

I've been doing a lot of talking lately about Web 2.0 with various groups of teachers and inevitably, there are always some who are unsu...

11 December 2009

Wordle!

I love WORDLE ! Wordle is an online application that allows you to create word clouds from the text (words and phrases) that you provide. Yo...

The 21st Century Learning Part 2

I'm a bit behind in my blogging - can ya tell? On December 3rd, we had the greatest time with teachers in part two of our series on The ...

Moderns 2.0: A P.A. Day Well Spent!

I was sooooo thrilled to be spending the day with our Moderns teachers on December 4th. This power point accompanied the keynote address tha...

10 December 2009

Remixes

Take a look... Really interesting stuff!

Some Food For Thought...

In May of 2008, Sony BMG featured this video at a conference. It fits in beautifully with the major themes around 21st century learning. We ...

Great Video Clip!

I found this clip on YouTube. One of the reasons I love it is because it's set to a mash-up of Under Pressure by Queen and I Wanna Rock...

07 December 2009

Typography

Check out this link on Vimeo: Typography - poem by Taylor Mali and animation by Ronnie Bruce. Very thought-provoking...

02 December 2009

Tools for Real-World Work

Today, thanks to an email sent to me by a teacher-librarian in our board (Jeanne - you totally made my day!!), I've discovered a terrifi...

Rynee Flaherty's story

Thestar.com - VideoZone - Rynee Flaherty's story This video accompanies one of the articles in the previous posting. Really good...

It's Not Going Away...

No amount of government restitution can repay the damage done throughout history to Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Metis people. Just ...

30 November 2009

Girls' Access to Ice Time: One Critical Literacy Issue After Another...

When I first started hearing about the Leaside Girls' Hockey Association's concerns with equal access to ice time, I immediately sym...

11 November 2009

Remembrance Day: A Lesson in Civic Literacy

At 11:00 am all across the Nation, Canadians stopped for two minutes to give thanks for their freedom in memory of the men and women who pai...

10 November 2009

The 21st Century Learner: Part One of the PLS for Teachers

I love, love, love my time at work when I can spend a day dialoguing with teachers about the craft of teaching. Today, Cathie and I ran par...

28 October 2009

Do you know your alphabet?

I bet that if you set this alphabet in front of any kid, he or she would be able to identify each of these brands. I dare any grown-up to tr...

27 October 2009

Full-Day Kindergarten Kinda Makes Sense...

I'm not entirely sold on Ontario's premier. I am, however, liking his idea to make kindergarten a full day more and more. He was rec...

26 October 2009

When Faith Meets Pedagogy 2009

This was the power point presenation that accompanied the workshop I gave at When Faith Meets Pedagogy. When Faith Meets Pedagogy 2009 View ...

The Cross Walk

I love this. I was emailed these images and I turned them into a power point, which I have used in a number of different contexts. I love th...

iPods in Education ... iLike!

Skeptics of the world, hear me out... I know what you're all thinking. We don't need to give our kids yet another excuse not to pay ...

24 October 2009

Skill First, Content Second

This is me with another dear friend, Pat Chiarella (and that's Dave eating in background...). Pat teaches geography. Kids love her to pi...

Jesus the Blogger?

First off, I mean no offense by this image. I thought it was hilarious that I could actually find something like this, so I suppose nothing ...

30 September 2009

And the Rat Laughed...

I didn't intend for this blog to serve as a book review, but I have to say that EVERYONE needs to read this book. It's about a Holoc...

14 September 2009

Kanye Gave 'Em Something to Write About!

I am not a fan of Kanye West. At all. It was nothing short of amazing, however, that after his deplorable behaviour on the MTV Video Music A...

I forgot about Alvin...

Alvin Toffler is a futurist. He and his wife Heidi are prolific authors and are " known for having forecast the acceleration of daily l...

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