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Connect, Copyright & Course Reserves: All-Day Drop-In
Are you struggling with a particular feature(s) of Connect, want a quick recap or just need to discuss the structure of your course materials? Do you have questions about copyright or need help creating your course reserves lists? If yes, come to the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology’s all day drop-in – talk to the specialists and get one-on-one assistance with your Connect course! This drop-in session will be held:
Jan 9, 2014
9:00am – 4:00pm
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – Seminar Room 2.22A/B
We are also offering virtual ONLINE support on January 9, 2013 between from 9-4pm. Please see this link below for more details:
Registration is not necessary for this event.
All-girls schools may be more orderly, but they’re no place for a tomboy, Canadian study finds
All-girls schools may be more orderly, but they are also bastions of strict conformity in which non-feminine behaviour is ruthlessly stamped out, according to a Concordia University study that may have implications in the ongoing push for single-sex education in Canadian schools.
Read the National Post article here: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/11/all-girls-schools-may-be-more-orderly-but-theyre-no-place-for-a-tomboy-canadian-study-finds/
Classroom crowdsourcing: teachers log on to raise funds for school supplies
“As education budgets grow tighter, teachers across the country are turning to a new crowdsourcing website to purchase school supplies for their students.
The website — myclassneeds.ca — was launched just a few months ago, and has since raised thousands of dollars to pay for more than 200 projects in publicly-funded classrooms.
After submitting a proposal to the website, one Toronto teacher was able to raise more than $1,600 to buy five video cameras for her communications technology class.”
Schooled: The Flipped Classroom
Interesting Slate podcast on education. “Can watching lectures at home and doing homework in school improve high school learning?”
http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/education/2013/12/schooled_podcast_the_flipped_classroom.html
Why Teaching Math is Hard
Robyn Urback, columnist for the National Post argues that math isn’t hard, but teaching it is.
Click here to read the article.