Let's talk more about what we think education is about
This morning I was working on a blog entry for the Toronto Development Community Institute. I got on Youtube to search for a piece on Paolo Freire on literacy and oppression. I ended up watching this piece. I think it continues on beautifully with the dialogue Daniel Shirley started yesterday. Take 5 minutes to watch it and let's start talking about what education means to us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgdVCnTTqXA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgdVCnTTqXA
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Gay Stephenson on -
Deborah, to edit your comment, you'll notice that is gets sort of highlighted when you hold your cursor over it. You just click in, and the passage is available for you to edit. Voila! The Civics course is one that students would like to change - did you see they have had a press conference about it (I posted it on our main page here to support them in their work).
Anthony - somehow I missed your response until today. Sorry! What a brilliant idea. I love it. No, we haven't had a contest for students before (although we've talked about it from time to time). It sounds like a project for the new year. Thanks for the inspiration, we'll keep you posted. To your other point, yes, I did mean with mutual respect when I said "in a considerate way".
As Deborah suggests, it would be great to do the cafe conversations (thanks for the link!) and share the format with people so they can do their own. I'm investigating a number of tools for having webinars too. I'm trying to find a good one that is also free! Suggestions appreciated :) That way we could invite others to join us in a "live" or real time conversation. What do you think?
Here's a couple of tools I'm considering:
http://www.learncentral.org/user/vroomreg?s=sas
https://www.yugma.com/getYugma.php
About
Video Interviews!
TVO recorded great interviews / discussions at our conference!
Watch them now, or share them at your next school council meeting!!!!
Presentations and notes from all sessions are being posted to our main website, as we receive them.
Interviews with:
Minister of Education
Annie Kidder
Charles Pascal (Early Learning)
Testing the Pros and the Cons (Panel Discussion)
Watch them now, or share them at your next school council meeting!!!!
Presentations and notes from all sessions are being posted to our main website, as we receive them.
Interviews with:
Minister of Education
Annie Kidder
Charles Pascal (Early Learning)
Testing the Pros and the Cons (Panel Discussion)
Groups
-
Ontario Needs a Coalitio…
2 members
-
Tech communication help…
9 members
-
21st Century Schools @ t…
75 members
-
Less Testing: Education…
17 members
-
Special Education
16 members
Schools are closing...
More school boards across the province are exploring the option of closing schools in the face of enrolment declines and budget pressures.
172 schools are slated or recommended to close in Ontario between 2009 and 2012, and a further 163 reviews are in progress.
→ Read our 2009 School Closings Report.
→ Read the detailed inventory of schools closing in each board.
→ Read the press release.
172 schools are slated or recommended to close in Ontario between 2009 and 2012, and a further 163 reviews are in progress.
→ Read our 2009 School Closings Report.
→ Read the detailed inventory of schools closing in each board.
→ Read the press release.
Latest Activity
Parents often have questions about special education. Here's a place where we can ask questions, share ideas and information and help one another...
Our school is small, at 281 elementary students. It is Early French Immersion, which is not uncommon in Ottawa. I believe there are enough elementary-aged children within walking distance to fill the school twice. However, with the public/catholic s…
Briony before rushing to ideas I always like to take a deep breath and outline the goal and then priority for Parent Engagement/Involvement. Without that you will just try different things but perhaps achieve few results. Our PIC believes in giving…
Hi Briony,
There are also some great examples of what other people have done in our Parent Engagement Manual.
Hopefully you'll get lots of responses from parents here in our online community who have tried a bunch of different things.
It's also i…
Help us to design a broader vision for education in the 21st century!
Hi Briony,
It is always hard to know how to start from zero when it comes to parent involvement. When I went to my first high school council meeting, the staff outnumbered the parents! There were only two of us, and the other mum showed up because h…
Thank you for sharing these photos and this project with us. It is wonderful to see those beautiful children learning together in a community school. Congratulations to the organizers of this initiative. To be able to offer this opportunity to 300 s…
I am the PIAC rep for Ward 10 of the TDSB.
PIAC is trying to offer more concentrated and targeted School council and parent engagement support this year and to that end we sent out a questionnaire asking schools what the state of things are at prese…
Beth: About the article in the Globe... unfortunately links to that newspaper only work for about 7 days, and then you must pay for the articles :( It's different from the Star which allows you to view them for free as long as you have the link addr…
Great article, Deborah (Playing the Game). I skimmed through and will read it again. Thanks! Looks like some good insight and food for thought from down under......!
Your link worked - yay Deb! It looks really good - I will read it this weekend :)
The next newsletter writing deadline is March 1st, which seems to work well with your research deadlines. All the best with your next steps in January!
Badge
© 2009 Created by People for Education on Ning. Create a Ning Network!
