Tag: Self-Management Skills

ATL skills, Coetail - Course 4, Technology Integration

“Screens Down” and other Tales of Managing Technology in the Modern Classroom

by Lina Farrow5 Comments on “Screens Down” and other Tales of Managing Technology in the Modern Classroom
“Screens Down” and other Tales of Managing Technology in the Modern Classroom

"Screens down" is probably the first intentional strategy that I learned for managing the use of laptops in my class. I have been teaching in a 1:1 school for the last ten years, and I was part of a small group of teachers who piloted this programme before its full implementation. As part of the [...]

ATL skills, Coetail - Course 3, English Language Acquisition, Humanities, Individuals & Societies, Key and Related Concepts, Statement of Inquiry, Technology Integration, Unit Planning

Digital Stories for Conceptual Understanding

by Lina Farrow3 Comments on Digital Stories for Conceptual Understanding
Digital Stories for Conceptual Understanding

I teach an integrated class of English Language Acquisition-Humanities in Grade 6. In our first unit, we use digital storytelling as a medium to assess the students' conceptual understanding in Humanities. In this unit, the students expand their understanding of how time, place and space (key concept) shape and give meaning to their identity (related [...]