Tag learning design
So this week I wanted to continue the winter theme and work on practicing layering. What better way to do this than to tackle some wreaths! It also combined aspects of my favourite painting exploration: monochrome. I started by setting… Continue Reading →
Tracy Humphreys, founder and chair of BC Ed Access, spoke with us about technology and inclusion in BC classrooms and the work her volunteer organization does to advocate for families of students with disabilities. The most common things Tracy hears… Continue Reading →
We were lucky to have Trevor Mackenzie talk with us about using the Inquiry approach in a public school setting. This was great to experience since inquiry comes up in almost every one of our classes and one of the… Continue Reading →
Architecture is another common type of watercolour painting and when thinking about what kind of architecture to attempt, I was reminded of my trip to Paris and how common it was to see people set up their easel and paint… Continue Reading →
I dive into my “Elements of Design” plan this time and decided to pay attention to value and Space. Value referring to the dark and light in a painting and space being aware of where objects are in the painting… Continue Reading →
On the same thread as the last post I did thinking about how, when, and why teachers use technology in the classroom, it is important to think about distributed or blended learning. The recent Covid-19 pandemic taught us that there… Continue Reading →
As someone who went through k-12 schooling amid an emerging and then rapidly changing technologies in the classroom, I find the questions of How, When, and Why use technology in classrooms a very interesting one. I went from classrooms with… Continue Reading →
Since I was so excited to get painting this weekend I decided to forgo any formal learning I was going to do and see if I could just hop on a YouTube tutorial and paint something nice. I found a… Continue Reading →
The Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry (PSII) was founded by Jeff Hopkins because he felt that the what he was seeing and experiencing in public schools wasn’t lining up with what research tells us about teaching and learning. Jeff… Continue Reading →
The goal for this week was to deepen my inquiry of Watercolour painting with some research. To do so, I set out on my usual path – to the library! I used the questions I had initially come up with… Continue Reading →