Educators Converge for Rewiring Education Conference
Queen Victoria students helped teach educators about GarageBand and iMovie.
More than 300 educators attended – and 42 educators and students were presenters at – the HWDSB Rewiring Education mini-conference on March 4.
The conference highlighted the best practices of the Board’s digital learning initiative Transforming Learning Everywhere. It examined the use of classroom technologies, including iPads, The Hub, Ministry-licensed software and other Board-provisioned tools – each seminar filling rooms in the Education Centre.
In one workshop, teacher Adele Stanfield and her students from Queen Victoria elementary took educators through the steps of using GarageBand and iMovie in the classroom. In another, teacher Enzo Ciardelli demonstrated hands-on coding examples, and how it integrates math, science, language and physical education in ways that critical thinkers and the job market craves.
Other presenters tackled 21st century learning for 21st-century history; the use of the digital classroom tool The Hub; inquiry-based learning in the Arts; how technology changes the classroom; how Minecraft helps students self-organize tasks rich in thinking, collaboration and design, and much more.
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Updated on Thursday, November 10, 2016.