Weekly Reflections

This is the category to apply to your Weekly Reflection posts from the course.

Weekly Reflection 7

This week we talked about coding and gamification. We had Kara Dawson from district 71 come in to guest lecture; she talked about teaching the curriculum with Minecraft Education (https://education.minecraft.net/en-us). Minecraft Education helps build creativity, strengthens solving problem solving skills, support collaboration, and brings learning to life. Minecraft Education has pre built worlds which contain…

Weekly Reflection 5

This week I really enjoyed being able to go even more in depth on the resources available on the Focused Education website. I enrolled in both the Digital Classroom for K-7 and the NFB K-12: More than Just Great Canadian Films lectures. Learning about the website’s options to fit learners’ needs was great to see…

Weekly Reflection 4

This week we had a special speaker, Ana Galac from SD62. Ms. Galac talked to us about what kind of hardware and software that is available to teachers in SD62. I really enjoyed learning about all the hardware’s and software’s available to us as future teachers. For example, Ms. Galac discussed how all schools have…

Weekly Reflection 1

During the first two classes, we discussed the importance of privacy, consent, and “most likely to succeed”. When it comes to privacy and consent in the classroom It is important to teach students about privacy and consent because they should be educated on what both privacy and consent are and how they can protect themselves…