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Another Chat GPT post. The links above are to two previous posts responding to the same prompt. I’m not sure how much my thinking has changed about using Chat GPT or other generative AI tools in the classroom. I’ve read other teacher’s work about “catching” students using Generative AI using various tricks in their own…
Doing the reading for this module I’m left with more questions than answers. While the readings themselves were clear I am now questioning how we prepare teachers for the classroom. As beginning teachers, we took methods courses about how to teach different subjects and learned to read curriculum documents to figure out what to teach…
The final assignment of PME 810 Integrated Curriculum, Planning and Assessment involved applying course learnings and the Backwards Design process to create a unit and learning activity. My greatest challenge when completing the unit and lesson design activity was my topic. I am most comfortable with math and science. My passion in the classroom is…
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I believe that all students should have access to a holistic and joyful learning environment for optimal growth. Students require daily opportunities to form connections, wonder, think and play. The belief that “learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place),” (First Nations Education Steering…
Response to the video Initially watching the video the concept of “achieved curriculum” stood out to me, and my mind instantly jumped to how many times I thought I covered a new idea or concept well and then when I went to assess my students work, something fell short and I didn’t convey what I…
This post was co-created with Sarah Williams When continuing to build on our extended visual metaphor for this assignment we chose to add the moving pieces of teaching as living animals. We chose to use the indigenous representations of wolves by BC artist Michelle Stoney for multiple reasons, first in indigenous mythologies wolf represents a…
The work for this was co-created with Sara Williams https://prezi.com/view/rmZHWQlwNTaDIlkQEC1W/ As educators we draw from a variety of sources, philosophies, experiences and perspectives to design the programs we use in our classrooms. Like a landscape without a variety of elements it would be incomplete and too much of the same makes it monotonous. We have…
Doing the reading for this module I’m left with more questions than answers. While the readings themselves were clear I am now questioning how we prepare teachers for the classroom. As beginning teachers, we took methods courses about how to teach different subjects and learned to read curriculum documents to figure out what to teach…
Chat GPT can have many positives and numerous drawbacks in classroom settings. As a teacher I have found it helpful when adapting for student reading levels or to generate ideas for discussion prompts and word problems. As with any tool the challenge is in how we use it and how we teach students to use…