Teaching With Tech

Digital Story      Link to Digital Story Link to Research      For our last blog prior to starting practicum, we were expected to study any Canadian First Nation, Metis, or Inuit group, and create a digital story about them. Prior to creating the digital story, each section had the opportunity to tour 1 of 3 schools on the Tsuut'ina First Nation reserve here in SW Calgary. As a result, I decided to study more of their history, and complete a deep dive on this First Nation Group. Above I have attached links to both my digital story, and the research I did prior to making said story.     As teachers, it is important that we recognize surrounding First Nation groups. We can learn from them to make more meaningful classrooms where students are engaged in traditional ways of learning.      Thank you, and I hope you both enjoy, and learn from my digital story. References [Tsuut'ina Nation Logo]. (n.d.). Tsuut'ina Nation. Retrieved October...

Coding in the Classroom Link to Scratch Lesson Plan     For our fourth blog, we had the opportunity to use Scratch as a means of facilitating a lesson within the classroom. Scratch is a block-based coding program, that allows even the youngest of children (starting in kindergarten) to learn the basics of coding!     For my lesson plan, I based it around Alberta's grade 5 math curriculum, more specifically, "multiply[ing] up to 3-digit by 2-digit natural numbers using standard algorithms" (New Learn Alberta, n.d.). This lesson was intended to be a review, after students have learned the standard algorithms for 3-digit by 2-digit multiplication, and would take place toward the end of a week, in theory. The lesson has students briefly altered the pre-made code to better fit Alberta's grade 5 standards, and the steps to do said coding are outlined within my lesson plan!     Given my specific group of students in my practicum, I know that this lesson would ...