Sometimes you just want to hear some straight up excitement about the work you do every day. Jenny Megeira spoke to educators in Surrey Schools a few months back, and she more than delivered. She was extremely well spoken, creative…
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The Uses of Inspiration
Tagged with: Adventure, Change, Education, Innovation, leadership, Learning, Magiera, Risk, Risk Taking
Posted in Education, Innovation, Project Based Learning, Risk Taking, Technology
Posted in Education, Innovation, Project Based Learning, Risk Taking, Technology
Johnston Heights Web Design Challenge
How many of us would trust the design of your business’s website to a 15 year old? This past month, I met some JH students who could do exactly that. Mr. Post invited me to his class for a most…
Tagged with: authentic, Education, educational technology, johnston Heights, technological change, technology
Posted in Education, Social Media, Technology
Posted in Education, Social Media, Technology
JH Twitter Workshop
At JHSS this year we have begun a commitment to adult learning among teaching and support staff. Following a session on the influence of technology on how our students learn led by George Couros, our staff asked to get hands…
Tagged with: Education, johnston Heights, Killawee, social-media
Posted in Education, Social Media, Technology
Posted in Education, Social Media, Technology
The Magic of Technology
Today’s post is guest written by Taylor Kim, a teacher in the Home Economics Department at Johnston Heights. Just in the last several years, countless Hollywood Blockbusters have been made around the idea of the impending doom technology will bring…
High Quality Leadership – Students telling their stories
The Student Leadership program at Johnston Heights is based on a philosophy of local and global action on real issues. This means that students take on projects at the school level that range from helping set up for school events,…
Keeping the Connection
(response to “What Happens When our Connection is Severed?”) I felt a bit like a treasure seeker with a metal detector, only what I was seeking was a wireless signal on my iPad in our neighboring elementary school. Just one…
Tagged with: Education, johnston Heights, McLuhan, technological change, technology
Posted in Education
Posted in Education
Pedagogy 2.0
Image from the IDEO “Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators“. Sometimes we look all over the world for innovation, only to find it in our own backyard. A learning project in Maple Ridge takes students into a new world where mobile…
Tagged with: Education, educational technology, inquiry, inquiry based learning, Mobile, technology
Posted in Education
Posted in Education
Room for risk taking?
Four big screens dominate the front of the room, and it’s a large room, packed with round tables surrounded by intense conversation. The screens hold images from the presentation by David Warlick (http://davidwarlick.com/twocents) on the middle screens, and the side…
Tagged with: David Warlick, Education, johnston Heights, Killawee, Learning, Learning in Failure
Posted in Education
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