Hello everyone, This week I did not have the time to bake anything, so I thought it would be interesting to look up some of the science behind baking ingredients, and how they impact the final product. If I have an understanding of the ingredients, I might be able to adjust existing recipes to get…
Hey everyone, This past Friday we visited the Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry (PSII), and I loved it! I thought about how inquiry-based learning could look as a new teacher, and came to the conclusion that it would be difficult to integrate this type of learning at the beginning of your practice. As new…
Hello everyone, For my inquiry project, I decided that I would like to become a better baker. It all started when I was 7 years old, helping my mom make chocolate chip cookies – our household’s favourite treat. I would often get kicked out of the kitchen, because my mom tends to be a micromanager…
Hello everyone, This week we discussed a topic that has been on my mind a lot lately: How can we use AI in high school classrooms in effective and sustainable ways? In class we discussed what AI is, its origins, as well as how it can fit as a tool into our classrooms. We also…
Hey everyone, I hope you are all enjoying the sunshine we’ve been having lately! This week in class we discussed using multimodal approaches and created auditory and visual content using screencasting with zoom. In creating these videos, I thought about so many possibilities of using this technology in the classroom. I even used screencasting and…
Hello Everyone! This week we discussed the theme of changing pedagogies in education from an industrial age, content driven system, to an information age and competency-based approach. In the Most Likely to Succeed Film, we saw that students at High Tech High were at the centre of their own learning. They hosted Socratic seminars, crafted…