Tag: Learning Tools

• Empowerment and Star Trek

  

  Today I want to tell you about Sarah. Sarah is a student in my grade 10 academic English class. I don’t have to engage Sarah. She came engaged and ready to learn because she has goals, big goals, laudable goals. But, Sarah struggles in my class sometimes. She has a hard time keeping up with the readings. Sarah has…

  Lynn Thomas

  September 6, 2019

  #IMMOOC, Education, Innovation, Teaching

  C-Pen, Empowerment, Learning Tools, MicrosoftEDUCa, OneNote, WordQ

• The Class of 2030, What Skills Will They Need?

  

  The biggest challenges students in kindergarten right now will face when they graduate is a rapidly changing work environment so being flexible is essential, and flexibility requires confidence. Confidence is the by-product of strong emotional intelligence and it will be necessary to successfully navigate the work-world of the future. Social-emotional intelligence ensures students are self…

  Lynn Thomas

  March 21, 2019

  21st Century Learning, Education, Empathy, Mental Health, Teaching

  21st Century Skills, blogging, Empathy, Flipgrid, Learning Tools, Mental Health

• Mighty Morph Masters

  

  As teachers, I think we are all Mighty Morph Masters. We make decisions on the fly, adjust a lesson to differentiate and better suit learner needs, tweak to ensure better engagement and impact, all while maintaining a positive, supportive energy in our classrooms. These are all things we do on a constant basis and essentially…

  Lynn Thomas

  November 23, 2018

  Blended Learning, EdTech, Education, Teaching

  21st Century Skills, Be the Change Take the Challenge, Blended Learning, Climate Action Project, D2L, Immersive Reader, Innovation Project, Learning Tools, OneNote, Skype in the Classroom, Visme

• The Seven ‘One’ders of OneNote

  

  I’m sure you’ve heard of the Seven Wonders of the World… Wonders of the Ancient World: Colossus of Rhodes Great Pyramid of Giza Hanging Gardens of Babylon Lighthouse of Alexandria Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Statue of Zeus at Olympia Temple of Artemis at Ephesus NEW Wonders: Great Wall of China Petra Christ the Redeemer Machu Picchu…

  Lynn Thomas

  January 18, 2018

  Collaboration, Curation, EdTech, Education, Innovation, Teaching

  Class Notebook, Dictate, Digital Inking, Learning Tools, OER, Office Lens, OneNote, OneNote Webclipper, Windows 10

• So Many Silver Linings

  

  This past week I had the pleasure of co-hosting a TweetMeet with some of my fellow Digital Lead Learners @GEDSB21C: Teaching in the Cloud, in collaboration with #MSFTEdChatCA and I have to say, it underscores what a powerful tool Twitter can be — truly to my amazement. Let me explain… It wasn’t so long ago…

  Lynn Thomas

  December 5, 2017

  Collaboration, EdTech, Education, Teaching

  Class Notebook, Climate Action Project, Cloud Computing, Learning Tools, MicrosoftEDUCa, Office 365, OneDrive, OneNote, PowerPoint, Twitter, Windows 10

• Empowerment and Star Trek

  Today I want to tell you about Sarah. Sarah is a student in my grade 10 academic English class. I don’t have to engage Sarah. She came engaged and ready to learn because she has goals, big goals, laudable goals. But, Sarah struggles in my class sometimes. She has a hard time keeping up with the readings. Sarah has…

  Lynn Thomas

  October 18, 2017

  #IMMOOC, Education, Innovation, Teaching

  C-Pen, Empowerment, Learning Tools, MicrosoftEDUCa, OneNote, WordQ