As a Tech Coach, I’ve been fortunate enough to work with many dedicated teachers who are willing to push themselves out of their comfort zones and try something new because they believe it will benefit their students. I love hearing a teacher tell their students, “We are learning together today” because it demonstrates to the […]
The facilitators and coaches in Innovative Education hear this question a lot: “How am I supposed to use just 6 devices in my classroom?” This question often gets highlighted as intermediate and senior students in our school board are fortunate enough to each have a Chromebook. The fact that some have one to one puts […]
…we don’t need to be the experts in every room I spent the first 10 years or so of my teaching career in a classroom where the overhead projector was the most advanced piece of technology. My spouse could send docs digitally to his office photocopier years before that tech showed up in our work […]
The awesome part of my job is that I get to work with teachers in all subject areas. As you may know my area of expertise is Mathematics and I love to dabble in robotics. I recently received a request from a Music teacher asking me to help them with a Chrome extension […]
What is a flipped classroom? Typically, the term is used to describe teacher recorded lessons viewed by students at home, followed by assignments and assessments that allow students to apply the theories and concepts learned in the videos. Sounds like students are teaching themselves, but what it really means, is students have the opportunity […]
