As part of an ongoing and culminating project for my EDTC 6102 course this winter, my cohort members and I were asked to create a community engagement project using backward design thinking, from Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe’s Understanding by Design (UbD) Model. For my project, I decided I wanted to focus on our 4/5…
Month: March 2020
Inspiring Creative Communicators in Primary Grades
Inquiry Question: What digital tools can primary school students use to feel empowered in the learning process and that allows students to express their creativity in authentic ways? In my last module for my winter course EDTC 6102, my cohort members and I had the opportunity to develop an inquiry question around ISTE Standard 6…
Building an Understanding of Computational & Design Thinking
Inquiry Question How are computational thinking and design thinking similar and different? What strategies can educators use to interconnect these problem-solving processes and support our students in solving real-world problems? Reframing My Question At the beginning of this module in the exploration of ISTE Student Standard 5: Computational Thinking, I had produced the inquiry question…
