EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices

Twitter and Canadian Education – The danger, and benefits, to developing Top 10 lists

by: Max Cooke

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Capturing Canadians’ Views on Change in Education

Results from the 2012 CEA Attitudes Towards Public Education Survey

by: Max Cooke

EdTech & Design, Indigenous Learning, Opinion, Promising Practices

School-Level Innovation and Collaboration

by: Michael Sefcik

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Leadership, Opinion, Promising Practices

Stop Asking For Permission to Change

It’s our school culture – not bureaucratic hierarchy – that provides the constraints to meaningful change.

by: Brian Harrison

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

Brave Educators Possess an Inquisitive Nature to Pursue Change

We must provide guidance and reassurance to those who are ‘sticking their necks out’

by: Colleen Rose

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Teaching

Learning through Inquiry

What I learned during my students' inquiry

by: Brooke Moore

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

How Blogging and Tweeting Reinvigorated my Passion for Teaching

Exploration and risk-taking have become the norm for teachers who want to invite the world into the classroom.

by: Colleen Rose

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

My Secrets for Innovating Classroom Practice – Part 2

Here is what I think classroom innovation looks like in action, with the caveat that my process is organic and continues to evolve.

by: Heidi Siwak

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Equity, Opinion, School Community

Parents Please BYOD

When parents become active participants in their child’s learning - something that is made amazingly easy with mobile devices – everyone benefits.

by: Lorna Costantini

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

My Guitar Class is More than a Class

It’s an environment for action, collaboration, and innovation to take place, and for this innovation to be owned by the individuals and groups that fill these spaces.

by: Bryan Jackson

EdCan Network, EdTech & Design, Opinion, Teaching

Sharing Shouldn’t Seem Scary

By failing to fully leverage the power of sharing, we stand in our own way of change in education

by: Aaron Akune

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

TedXWilfrid-Bastien

Sharing innovative ideas in addressing the important question of the transition to a 21st century pedagogy.

by: Pierre Poulin

Curriculum, EdTech & Design, Opinion, School Community

Education Media/Blogosphere Roundup

by: Max Cooke

EdTech & Design, Opinion, School Community

Maybe I’m In an Innovation Echo Chamber

I like shiny things, change, being uncomfortable, and doing something about it, but this movement isn’t happening where I am.

by: Aerin Guy

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Teaching

Pulling It Together: The People Puzzle

by: John J C Myers

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, School Community

The Classroom Might Remain Relevant

While the institution of school incentivizes control and predictability, the irony is that relevant skills result from autonomy and self-direction.

by: Eric Rosenberg

EdTech & Design, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

My Secrets for Innovating Classroom Practice – Part 1

An outline of the steps I took to transform my practice so that it is now aligned with expectations for 21st Century Fluencies.

by: Heidi Siwak

EdTech & Design, Leadership, Opinion

Innovation requires the understanding that learning takes place every day; everywhere.

For real change – dramatic change – systemic change – change has to happen at the policy level – with the elected – at all levels.

by: Sandi Urban-Hall

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Is the iPad the Answer?

by: Bruce Beairsto

EdTech & Design, Engagement, Opinion, Promising Practices, Teaching

Innovation is the Beautiful Chaos that 28 Young Learners Create

Our challenge lies in how best to capture, synthesize and share the magic of learning that happens in authentic contexts.

by: Brian Harrison