CC: Photo by Annie Spratt

Film; ‘Most Likely to Succeed’

  • Learned; positive learning outcomes in cross curricular activities, giving children independence and choice give better learning outcomes, every 2 years computers double ability resulting in lack of jobs, risk of one year contract
  • Surprising; high percent got into post secondary (98%), very cool
  • Problems or opportunities; might not be reasonable for most public schools, possible that not all learners thrive in this environment, lack of diversity (learning differences), structure of the school might not prepare them with the world’s systems not ready; if they want to go to university the typical structure would be likely be very different than what they are used to and they may not possess the commonly used skills (e.g. note taking in a lecture setting).
  • Questions; how would this method would apply to American elementary schools as it seems to be targeted for high schools or higher age groups, now the it has been 10 years what are the views on it and how have the students preformed at post secondary.

Setting up our Websites; different people have different struggles with setting up their websites

FIPPA, Privacy, Consent, Intellectual Property and Open Educational Resources (OER)

  • Copyright; you own your stuff, be ethical when you use things (tell them where it came from, provide context).
  • Teachers pay teachers – connecting teachers to resources.
  • Creative Commons (CC) – share/use your thing, but must source if they want to use (Wikipedia’s {photos} are licensed for re-use).
  • B.C. Open Collection – textbooks/course materials.
  • Unsplash – photos with free license (used for above image).
  • the greats – art and illustration
  • Can use OER materials to get started and/or be inspired; what might be useful in inquiry/topics

It is important to inform our students on where we are getting our information so we can show our learning and credibility, as well as modeling responsible use of the web/technology. Also providing teaching opportunities into credible sources, to not believe everything they see, and to dig deeper into why we are using/doing the things we are.