Category: Weekly Reflections

For our second last class we visited one of the local schools and teamed up with the Design Lab teacher to introduce an Innovation Hour for all grade levels. What does that mean? Basically, there are varying levels of technology at many stations that were set up in the gym. Every station introduced a different…

So it turns out that some school district in this area have what they call “Design Labs”. What are they you ask? Well, kind of just what it sounds like. Its like an experimental laboratory to design things using all kinds of materials, tools, and some new and upcoming technology. I’m sure the design lab…

In class 8 we spent a big ole chunk of time talking about AI and it’s impacts, whether that be in education, socially, or environmentally. While I appreciate the ease of use and practicality of AI, especially within the realm of education (lets be honest, lesson planning seems like the most time consuming thing in…

For this week’s class SEVEN (only 4 or 5 more classes, wahoooooo), we explored coding resources for elementary students. Think: interactive games, Minecraft coding, puzzles, etc. etc. I’m about the last person to advocate or even understand why coding matters or is important. As someone who needs to deeply understand the whys of something I…

In our Teacher’s Ed program we had the opportunity to go to two different elementary schools for a few hours each to engage students from Kindergarten all the way up to Grade 5 or 6 in some outdoor learning activities. Both experiences were structured quite differently, which was incredibly insightful to see not only the…

In today’s class we played around using with app ChatterPix Kids, which is a way to make images come to life! You simply need to create a character, take a photo of your character, and then using the app it turns that character into a talking or singing character using your own voice. We’ll be…

Time sure is flying by, but also, that was the longest September of my life?? Anyways! We’ve been assigned a creative media presentation that we must organize in a group and present to the class in mid-November. Add it to the to-do list  🤯 That’s okay, we always get through it, don’t we? Don’t we….?…

As a part of our second class of Technology in the EKTEP program, we learned how to make screencasts, so I decided to make a screencast of an online book resource called Epic! Books. This step-by-step guide will walk you through how to navigate finding a book to read from an endless library of kids…

Reflections from the “Most Likely to Succeed” film In our Technology and Innovation class we were asked to watch “Most Likely to Succeed“, a 2015 documentary by Greg Whitely. The documentary features a high school in San Diego, California called High Tech High, that challenges our perceptions of what we’ve been told schooling should be,…