Assessment for Critical Literacy
This semester’s Socials 9 curriculum was conceived with an intention to cultivate critical literacy, which I have come to define more and more as an ability to develop a praxis of reflection and...
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Digital Environments, Emergent Knowledge & Citizenship Learning
Mock trial of King Charles I EDCI 335 Challenge 10: What are the strengths/affordances of the technology or learning environment you have chosen for your learning design that will promote or facilitate...
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EDCI335 Final Design from Bryan Jackson on Vimeo. You can read the full PDF of the paper here. Background Drawing identified-gifted learners from the Coquitlam School District, Gleneagle Secondary...
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An Open Letter to BC Education Minister Peter Fassbender
Minister Fassbender visits the TALONS Classroom, October 2013 May 31st, 2014 Greetings, Minister Fassbender, As a social studies teacher in the Coquitlam School District’s T.A.L.O.N.S. Program, my...
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Guest Post: Letter from a Colleague
Melanie Stokes is a colleague of mine who forwarded me this letter that she submitted to the Vancouver Sun to share here. As teachers are now in their second week of full job action, it may be...
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Précis: A Critical Consideration of the New Pedagogy in its Relation to...
Dr. Montessori in the garden of the school at Via Giusti. Image courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Maria Montessori presents a critical consideration of the “New Pedagogy” (1912) by discussing...
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Emergent Citizenship: Curriculum in the Digital Age
“Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an’ tho’ a cloud’s shape nor hue nor size don’t stay the same, it’s still a cloud an’ so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud’s blowed from or who the...
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Live from #CUEBC
On Friday I’ll be presenting at the CUEBC Conference in West Vancouver, sharing a little of the gospel of distributed web radio stations DS106Radio and 105 the Hive, meaning I am now putting together...
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Learning and Metaphysics
#philosodoodles Now making my third pass at the philosophy 12 course, I have approached this year’s unit on Metaphysics as an opportunity to crystalize the course methods as an expression of the values...
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An Ignite Talk: No handbook for Transcendence
Pic courtesy of Dean Shareski What a hoot tonight to come share in a blitz of ideas with a room full of #bced folks, convened around food and drink, rallying around a call from Dean Shareski to talk...
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Professional Autonomy and Development
Following the acrimony of our recent job action in BC schools, I’m inclined to take stock of what may be considered ‘wins’ in an otherwise defeating series of events. Having seen the government come...
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Identifying a Research Problem
Identifying a research problem consists of specifying an issue to study, developing a justification for studying it, and suggesting the importance of the study for select audiences that will read the...
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Why Collaborative Inquiry?
In a facilitator’s guide for Collaborative Inquiry for Educators, Jenni Donohoo presents the formation of professional learning communities as a means of addressing “adaptive challenges,” or those...
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Education for Citizenship as Shared Fate
A theme in liberal democracy which presents a challenge for citizenship education is the tension created between recognizing difference and diversity in society alongside the development of a shared...
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Pedagogy for the Oppressor: Cease to do Evil, then Learn to do Good
Image courtesy of SFU.ca In an essay collected in Rethinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis, Derek Rasmussen introduces Paulo Freire and those who would introduce his critical...
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Citizenship in Global Space: Convergences and Departures
Image courtesy of Wikipedia Education for Global Citizenship “…increasing calls for educational provision to develop a more global orientation.” Mark Priestly, Gert Biesta, Gren Mannion and Hamish...
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Teaching in the Patriarchy
Image courtesy of Christopher Dombres Even as we might strive to discuss Herstory and the silencing of minority voices in our curriculum, it is startlingly easy to perpetuate and recreate the same...
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Lit Review Twitter Essay
This is the sort of thing that might otherwise be relegated to an aggregated Storify or series of screenshots. But as this afternoon’s series of Tweets was intended to partially sketch out the main...
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School Politics
Image courtesy of Christopher Allen on Flickr. It is a common sentiment that schools ought be apolitical spaces, despite the fact that in policy, curriculum, and objectives they cannot help but exist...
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Teaching to the (Limit) Situation
This post is part of a serialized collection of chapters composing my recently completed Master’s of Education degree at the University of Victoria. You can access the other chapters on this site...
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