By Jowi Taylor (www.sixstringnation.com) I am not a teacher or an academic or an educational expert in any way. But the Six String Nation project has taken me into hundreds of schools across Canada to give presentations to audiences of students from about Grade four up through middle and high school. I have presented to […]
Category: Wonder-Full Links & Resources
Quick links and tips for employing IE’s cognitive tools in learning.
Using Self-Assessment To Power Imagination And Creativity
By Katie White (Educational consultant, Author, Assessment Associate, & Art Instructor) In an earlier blog post, I discussed the necessity of assessment to propel imagination and creativity forward. I made the case that assessment, imagination, and creativity cannot live in isolation from each other. Rather, each makes the other better. “…the most successful individuals today are those […]
Using Uno’s Story to Teach Graphing to Grade 3/4s
By Ed Ezzie (Grade 3/4 Teacher, Australia) To teach graphing this week I used the stunning text Uno’s Garden (2006) by Graeme Base. The text basically shows how as the number of people and buildings increase in Uno’s garden the number of plants and animals decrease. However, this story does much more than show data! […]