Webinar Wrap-Up: Resources and Lessons
Last week, we were excited to host a webinar for our partnering communities. Learning Bird’s Education Account Leads Joelle Chemali and Rebecca Smith presented the session “Using Learning Bird to [...]
Decolonizing Math: Creating Culturally-Relevant Resources
Although learners can have trouble with any subject, math is the one learners complain about most. Often this is because learners don’t see the connection or relevance of math to their daily [...]
Teaching Math in the 21st Century: Changing the Focus from Calculations to Critical Thinking
Math class can be a traumatic experience, and for whatever reason, people tie math closely to intelligence. Many people think you can do math if you’re smart, and if you’re not smart, you cannot. [...]
Celebrating Pi – A Transcendental Number
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein As an educator, I like to find as many reasons to [...]
The Mobile Mathematician: Math Apps to Multiply Success
How can math apps help learners multiply success? It is not new knowledge that math is a hot topic in the 21st century. School boards have put forth great effort through professional development [...]
Why Pop Culture has a Place in the Classroom
Incorporating pop culture and media into the classroom is a divisive issue amongst educators, and not without reason. While pop culture has its benefits, it could be distracting if integrated [...]
Blogging as a Cross-Curricular Teaching Tool
As technology increasingly becomes a part of schools and classrooms, we must use these tools in the best possible manner. One of these practices, becoming more and more popular, is blogging as a [...]
