on teaching, learning and school management
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What’s Thwarting Online Learning in Schools? A new Canadian study demonstrates that, with the exception of British Columbia, the spread of online learning and virtual schools has stalled. Find out why. |
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For Busy Educators, It’s Worth the Time to Find the Treasure in Twitter Are you in the field of education? If so, are you on Twitter yet? Recognizing that Twitter use is not yet widespread in education, I hope to convince you to consider it. |
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Apple and Digital Textbooks: A K-12 Educational Revolution? Educators should be inspired by the new e-publishing world being opened up by Apple and be prepared to take creative advantage of Apple’s new tools. But they should be very aware of the pitfalls that may entrap them if they don’t think before they innovate. |
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A Look Ahead to the Educational IT Challenges for 2012 Changes for the major IT companies, the different needs of high school and elementary school instruction, and the growing ubiquity of smartphone and social media use will all provide students and teachers with special challenges in 2012. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Laptop Basics It’s a new year and your school has embarked on a new program to integrate IT into the classroom. To do this, every teacher has been given a brand new, shiny laptop. Now what? Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice in his latest column. |
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Science Fiction Passes the Torch of Innovation to a New Generation Whether it was H.G. Wells taking us on a ride in The Time Machine or Isaac Asimov unveiling the secrets of robotics in I, Robot, children have always been fascinated with science fiction. Manfred J. von Vulte explains how science fiction, above all, might be the key to our future. |
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Cairo Diaries: ‘My Hayah’ Gives Power to the Students After the revolution in Egypt, Atif Hussain seized an opportunity to give students a chance to take ownership of their learning in a way not done before. Read more in his debut column, the Cairo Diaries. |
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The Five Educational Legacies of Steve Jobs Steve Jobs is one of the few people who can rightfully be said to have created a new world. Here are ways he changed the means of teaching forever and how we can live up to that legacy. |
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Dialogue Online Weekly News Roundup Dialogue Online provides the education headlines, links and web resources you should know. Learn the seven deadly sins of creativity, why some want to ban Wi-Fi from schools, and why educators should “cut the excuses and lead” in technology transformation. |
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Bayview Glen Brings Learning to Life With TechnoCup Challenge Find out how Bayview Glen’s applied technology challenge for Grade 7 students takes science and math to the next level. |
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Dialogue Online Weekly News Roundup Dialogue Online provides the education headlines, links and web resources you should know. Find out why zero-tolerance policies may be damaging, what educators are doing about the bullying and teen mental health crises, and the role of digital education as a divider or equalizer. |
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Where Do We Draw the Line With Technology in Math Education? When it comes to debating whether students should do mathematics by hand or by computer, we forget that we have used mathematics in many other technologies over the years, and that each of these technologies had their advantages and disadvantages, writes educator David Wees. |
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Dialogue Online Weekly News Roundup Dialogue Online provides the education headlines, links and web resources you should know. This week, the homework debate, schools walk the talk on mental health, and lessons on co-teaching and inclusion. |
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School Spotlight: Secrets From Appleby College’s Website Redesign School Spotlight, a new column on Dialogue Online, features your private school’s innovative projects, programs and accomplishments. In this Q&A, Michael O’Connor shares the lessons and successes of Appleby College’s website redesign. |
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For First Graders, There’s an App for Enjoying Learning It’s no longer just about learning their A, B, C’s and 1, 2, 3′s. Grade 1 students at HTS, an independent school in Richmond Hill, have joined the iPad revolution with recently launched pilot projects. Barry Hughes, the head of school, weighs in on how the gadget is transforming their classrooms. |
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Dialogue Online Weekly News Roundup Dialogue Online provides the education headlines, links and web resources you should know. This week, encouraging critical thinking with social media, a national strategy against teen suicide, and Facebook’s influence on children. |
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Dialogue Online Weekly News Roundup Dialogue Online provides the education headlines, links and web resources you should know. This week, learn tips for helping youth achieve their dreams, guess who students voted for in the Ontario election, and find out a new but controversial response to dealing with bullies. |
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The Evolving Role of Educators in the 21st-Century Classroom In the information age, educators are faced with the pressure to stay current and come up with innovative ways to excite their students about learning. By integrating technology into the classroom, educators can make learning more engaging and present curriculum in a way that resembles the type of media that students are accustomed to consuming. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Examples of IT Projects In IT for Every Classroom, a weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. This column looks at examples of projects for students in junior, intermediate and senior grades. |
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Back to School, Back to the Polls The new school year will be an exciting time for Civics classes throughout Canada as provincial and territorial elections ramp up. Getting students involved in the election is an important way for them to become politically engaged in the hopes that when the next election comes along, they will be informed voters and cast their ballot. Garth Nichols of Greenwood College School explains how to raise politically active citizens in the classroom. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Creating an IT Project In IT for Every Classroom, a weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, Keery gives his tips on when to do IT, how to organize ideas, and what to do with projects. |
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10 Ways to Integrate Technology Into Education Technology and education go hand in hand in the 21st-century classroom. Here are 10 ways to get your students plugged in and learning. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Preparing to Use Hardware and Software In IT for Every Classroom, a weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, learn how to ensure that the resources your students will need to use IT in class are ready and working. |
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IT for Every Classroom: To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade, That Is the Question In IT for Every Classroom, a weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. This week, he gives his advice on whether the IT-savvy teacher should upgrade right away – if at all. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Back Up Work, Avoid the ‘Spinning Wheel of Death’ Every student should get into the habit – and every teacher should insist – that work in progress be backed up at the end of every class. |
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IT for Every Classroom: The Best Subject In Which To Use Technology Is … Outside the computer science classroom, many assume that the most logical place to integrate IT in class is in the related subjects of math and science. However, the best place to use IT is not only in those “traditional” subjects. |
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IT for Every Classroom: What To Do With Completed Podcasts In IT for Every Classroom, a weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, find out the next steps after students finish their projects. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Evaluating Podcasts In IT for Every Classroom, a weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, learn how to evaluate podcasts. |
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Five Social Media Exercises to Inspire Creativity in Class As social media and networks become more prevalent in today’s world, it’s important for educators to figure out ways they can safely incorporate these networks into classroom exercises. Here are five exercises that could help you educate your students in creative ways. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Exporting the Autobiographical Podcast In IT for Every Classroom, a new weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, learn how to export the podcast. |
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Top 4 Websites to Learn French To faciliate the process of learning French, students are encouraged to read, listen and speak French as much as possible. The following is a list of websites that may help you learn and gain a facility (and liking) for French. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Enhancing the Autobiographical Podcast In IT for Every Classroom, a new weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, find out how to edit and enhance podcasts. |
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Expert Q&A | Juliana Rotich Juliana Rotich, co-founder and executive director of revolutionary crowdsourcing web platform Ushahidi, shares her thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future. |
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Lifting of Ban Means Classrooms Must Use Technology Smartly The Toronto District School Board’s recent reversal of its four-year-old ban on laptops, smartphones, and MP3 players recognizes that these devices are here to stay, and form an ever-greater part of students’ lives. Educators ignore this technology at their peril. Here are some suggested uses and concerns for each type of device. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Recording the Autobiographical Podcast In IT for Every Classroom, a new weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, learn how to record the autobiography. |
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Social Media Gets Students Excited About Party Platforms and Politics Who says youth are apathetic about politics? At Greenwood College School, students leapt at the opportunity to get behind the headlines and rhetoric of the recent federal election through the use of social media. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Scriptwriting for Podcasts In IT for Every Classroom, a new weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, Keery explains how to write the script for the autobiography. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Introducing Podcasting! In IT for Every Classroom, a new weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, he shows you how to introduce podcasting to your students. Beware – it’ll be noisy! |
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IT for Every Classroom: Getting the Necessary Hardware In IT for Every Classroom, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, he explains the types of hardware needed to create movies and podcasts. |
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Learning. There’s an App for That iPod Touch and iPhone are not just entertainment — students can use the latest “it” gadgets as educational tools. |
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With Video, Practising French Is an Imaginative Exercise Some teachers are looking beyond the worksheets, textbooks and oral presentations and trying to capitalize on students’ interests of technology when giving assignments. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Simpler Software is Better In the IT for Every Classroom column, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, Keery reveals user-friendly software packages that can be used without too much difficulty by students and teachers. |
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The Case Against 21st-Century Schools A rather ominous worldwide 21st-century education movement that promotes so-called “21st-century schools” shows the pitfalls of worshipping at the altar of technology, writes Paul W. Bennett. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Teacher Tips for Integrating Technology In IT for Every Classroom, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers in his new weekly column for Dialogue Online. |
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New Literacies Online Guide Dialogue Online’s list of educational resources will help you become familiar with social networks and online spaces. |
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Open House Discussion: How Are New Literacies Taught at Your School? Dialogue asks educators and experts their views on teaching new literacies and 21st-century skills in schools. |
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In Pursuit of Privacy in the Digital World Now, more than ever, teachers need to help students balance public, virtual space with personal space in the classroom. |
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Expert Q&A | Sherry Turkle What key 21st-century skills can better prepare students for the future? More than anything, students need to know how to think synthetically, analytically and critically, understanding the difference between the real and simulated worlds. They need to understand how simulations are built, and their strengths and limitations. One way to do this is to teach [...] |
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Goodbye Essay, Hello Podcast One of the greatest conflicts between new and old literacies is many educators’ continuing belief that students’ analytical skills are not properly developed through the use of new media. There is some justification for this: Many student-created new media works are simplistic mishmashes of audio and video clips with no thesis or rationale. New media [...] |
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The Death of Creative Literacy u r 2 dum 4 me 2 c The spelling’s atrocious, the grammar’s non-existent, and there is no punctuation, period. But it’s a real text message, ending a very real relationship. Don’t ask me how I know. Welcome to our 21st century, the beginning of creative literacy’s death. William Shakespeare saw it coming. In 1602, [...] |
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The Future Belongs to Educators Who Shift ”The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” —Alvin Toffler, writer and futurist Many factors have converged over the last 10 to 15 years to create a vastly different society, one that is technology and information driven, global in scope, [...] |
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People Power 2.0 Gives Birth to Middle East Revolutions When the Tunisians started their revolution in December, the mainstream media ignored it at first. However, in the world of Web 2.0 – namely Facebook, blogs and Twitter – it was something that grabbed the attention of many, not just in Tunisia but worldwide. Without any help from multi-million dollar advertising campaigns, Mohamed Bouazizi, the [...] |
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Tips and Tools For Managing the E-Learning Classroom As an e-learning instructor for The Conference of Independent Schools’ eLearning Consortium (CISELC), the most important issues I encountered in my first year of online teaching pertained to management of the student experience and management of Ontario assessment policies within the online environment. I chose to focus on these management issues in my workshop at [...] |
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Social Networking—Do We Need a Policy (And Is It Any of Our Business)? Many schools have an “Acceptable Use of the Internet” policy published in their employee handbooks—which we absolutely recommend, for the protection of the school and its employees. However, unless your HR policies are on the cutting edge (and kudos to you if they are!), the “acceptable use” policy probably doesn’t mention social networking (like use [...] |
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Question: How are new literacies being taught at your school? In every issue of Dialogue Magazine, we ask a question to the independent educator community to spark dialogue about the issue’s theme. We’ve already heard from many schools and want to feature your story. Some of the comments posted below will be selected to be published in the Open House section of the print version [...] |
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Screen Capture Videos: A Fun, Easy Way To Enhance Teaching Screen capture videos are a great way to share ideas. There are a variety of programs that can be used to make screen capture videos including QuickTime, Windows Media Encoder, CamStudio and many others. I use Jing, which is a freeware program that works on Mac and PC. It allows students and teachers to quickly [...] |
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The Power, Perils and Possibilities of E-Assessment When discussing the use of web and other technologies, it’s easy to get distracted by the variety of tools available to us. It is a creative and rewarding experience for both you and your students to engage with these web tools and readily admit I’ve spent a lot of time fiddling with many tools-du-jour to [...] |
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Learning to Swim in the Information Age A look at web 2.0 and social learning Whenever I meet a group of teachers or school administrators I take a straw poll to see who is using what on the social web. While most everyone uses email and shared calendars, I typically find less than 15 percent of a room feels comfortable working with [...] |
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Question: How is your school using technology and social networking? Everyday there are new programs, tools and online resources that emerge on the market. Information is at our fingertips and many schools are encouraging the use of some of these tools into both their operation and classroom activities. What are you doing with technology at your school? Do you run a laptop program? Does your [...] |
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Kindling: The Amazon eReader as an Educational Tool I am thinking that the revolutionary electronic reading device, Amazon’s Kindle, is already obsolete. Such is the breakneck speed of technology that the machine that supposedly spells the death of printed books, is already heading for the scrap heap, replaced by e?Readers with i?Phone technology that will access the Internet, make phone calls, download movies [...] |
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