We’ve reached the end of our first unit Sketchnoting daily. If you’ve been following our journey, you’ll know that two of the major goals I had in mind were to help students pull out big ideas and then to have them revisit material after a lesson in order to make it their own. Here’s a quick run-down of some of…
Month: December 2018
Rational Exponents – Simple is Beautiful
Our Grade 11 Functions course is slowly becoming more of a Thinking Classroom, and one of the big shifts I’m currently working towards is Defronting the Room. I use Pear Deck regularly for setting up a problem & collecting responses (blog post to come), but this week I was looking to do a simple, oral explanation of a problem and…
Sketchnotes Day 5
We’re five days into our Sketchnoting trial for the astronomy unit of grade 9 science. I think it’s safe to say I’m sold on the idea of being intentional about integrating visuals in note taking. Observations so far: Students are awesome. Not that this is a new finding, but it’s nice to be reminded of how unique & creative…