4. AGENDA
• Prayer
• Technology Survey: Kahoot
• Video: Power to the Pupil
• 21st Century Learning vs the Traditional Classroom
• Inquiry Based Learning & Embracing Uncertainty
• Empowering Student Voice: Jack
• BYOD Benefits
• Hands on Resources
5. POWER TO THE PUPIL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
v4kQqJfmfU
10. TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM
Teacher led
instruction
Students are passive
Whole
group
Application is homework
Individual
Students in rows
No collaboration
Worksheets and
textbooks
Content focused rather than skills Real world
application
No differentiation
17. BENEFITS OF BYOD
• Up to date devices
• Devices students are familiar with
• Saves the school money
• Digital citizenship and responsibility
• Developing 21st century skills
• Workforce ready students
• Collaboration with peers
• Making connections
• Engaging all types of learners
• Empowering student voice & collaborative student teacher roles
18. PARENTS & TECHNOLOGY
For many parents, connecting with teachers and
staying in the loop about their child’s progress
in school is of the utmost importance. In an
increasingly digital age with increasingly busy
parents, there is a demand for highly
accessible ways for parents to connect with
teachers and vice versa.
19. IMPORTANCE OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
- Improves children’s morale, attitude, and academic achievement
- Promotes better behaviour and social adjustment
- Leads to improved educational performance
- Fosters better student classroom behaviour
- Increases support of schools
- Improves school attendance
- Creates a better understanding of roles and relationships
between and among the parent-student-school triad
- Improves student emotional well-being
- Quality of parent involvement affect results for students, parents,
and teachers (Mount Royal University, 2012)
25. SCIENCE
• Ocean Forests
• Crazy Gears
• DIY Human Body
• Meet Science: Light and Sound
• Focus on Plant
• BrainPop
• Heart and Lunchs Lab
• Pocket Anatomy
26. SOCIAL STUDIES
• First Peoples of North America
• TV Ontario DocStudio
• Discover Canada
• GoExplore Canada
• Constitution of Canada
• CIRCA 1948
• The Loxleys and the War of 1812