10 books about residential schools to read with your kids

Are you looking for age appropriate books to read with your kids about residential school?  Check out the books listed in this article!

10 books about residential schools to read with your kids

Generational Diversity in Education

When we think of diversity in education, do you think of the generational impacts of how people learn?

I have found that it is important to think about generational diversity in an educational setting as the age and generation that your students are from can impact how they learn.  I have facilitated some interested conversations in classrooms about the use of technology and hand held devices, for example. Interestingly, people had vastly different ideas of what was appropriate, acceptable and even useful. What might be some of the considerations when planning education for generationally diverse groups of students?

Here is an interesting article that looks at generational diversity in nursing education.

Generational Diversity: Teaching and Learning Approaches

Is Online Learning as good as Face-to-Face education?

What do you think?  Is Online Learning as good as Face-to-Face education? What are the Pros and Cons of each?  How can we best combine Online Learning and Face-to-Face Education?  What are your experiences as educators and participants in these different approaches to education?

Compassion & Empathy in Education: People will never forget how you made them feel…

How does this statement connect to education? How does this statement challenge traditional approaches to teaching? How can we encorporate compassion and empathy in our education practice?

Arts and Creativity in Education

See Ted Talk entitled “Dance versus PowerPoint, a modest proposal.” It illustrates how diverse and creatively we can educate and do presentations. It critiques the overuse of PowerPoint and elicits some great reflection about how we educate. How have you incorporated art and creativity into your education?  How have students/participants responded?  Let’s continue to push boundaries in how we educate and engage our students!

How do we learn?

Does your education maximize students learning using the list above?  How can you enhance the level of learning of students by being more conscious and creative about how you plan education?

Technology in the classroom

Ever wonder how you can include technology in the classroom to remain relevant in our technological world?  Check out this video about iPads in the classroom. How have you added technology to your classroom?  How is it working?

Simulation in Education

Hello All,

Simulation in Education is an effective way of providing students with “real world” experience.  This video is a fantastic example of how simulation works. Have you used simulation in your field of education?  Tell us how it went….

Questioning as a Teaching and Learning Strategy?

This video illustrates a passionate and fantastically skilled teacher in action.  Her questioning technique is wonderful – See how well the students are responding.  Do you use questioning regularly in your education? How do you use it? Do you think it is an effective strategy? https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/questioning-in-the-classroom

Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Check out this Ted talk.  It asks some fundamental questions about our public education systems.  Do they kill creativity?  Are they still relevant in our changing world?  Are we preparing the next generations for the challenges they will face? Or Are we preparing them for the challenges the we or past generations faced?  More importantly, what is Ken Robinson suggesting? and what does it mean for you as and educator?  I’m curious to hear your thoughts!