News reports recently left me a bit amused that the mighty Apple could get it so wrong. Apple has vowed that iBooks will reinvent school textbooks. My take is that this initiative is more about selling iPads than shaking up education. As noted by many, the textbook is a relic. It is all about transmitting knowledge or information on mass from an authority (a subject, a teacher, an institution) to the student. The textbook learning ...Read more
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Feb. 17th, 2012
Enhance your Students’ Engagement through Community Action
It was a sad sad day for me as an educator the day I was supporting another teacher’s civics class. I introduced the concept of the community action project. It took a long time to convince the students that we were actually going to do the action project. We weren’t just going to write about it. We weren’t going to do a simulation, a ‘mock’ anything or a… We were actually going to do it. The students wouldn’t believe me. ...Read more
Feb. 14th, 2012
Midnorth Monitor: Students visit streams
By Franco – Ouest Staff On October 5th, the students of École secondaire catholique Franco-Ouest along with the grade 8 students from École St-Joseph Espanola attended a tour of Manitoulin rivers in order to observe salmon spawn and examine the ponds and streams of the area. The coordinator of Manitoulin Streams Improvement Association, Bob Florean, who is knowledgeable in the rivers, hatcheries and fish spawning, accompanied the students. The group learned about fish and the ...Read more
Feb. 7th, 2012
Give Peas a Chance
All they are saying, is, “Give peas a chance”: Occupy Gardens Toronto Challenges Unsustainable Global Food System This post was written by Katie Berger – MES Candidate, York University “It’s Thyme” they cry, “Lettuce Occupy Gardens for World Peas!” This is the callout from the organizers of the first annual World Peas Expo. The Expo, set for February 11, 2012 is the first major event held by Occupy Gardens Toronto, a growing collective of guerrilla gardeners inspired by the international Occupy ...Read more