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Digital citizenship is the ability to navigate our digital environments in a way that’s safe and responsible and to actively and respectfully engage in these spaces.  mediasmarts.ca Digital citizenship needs to be understood by educators for two main reasons. One… Continue Reading →

February 1st, 2024 By video call, we had a presentation in class from ARC BC, where we learned about the technology we could access for students with perceptual disabilities. I had never heard of perceptual disabilities before, but learned through… Continue Reading →

Monday, November 13th Noelle Pepin came to our class to show us  Beaded Tweets, where she took tweets and beaded them using 8-bit code and two colors of beads to represent 1s and 0s. We had to pick a word… Continue Reading →

November 6th, 2023 *Trigger Warning: discussion of WWII* Skip to picture to avoid. I want to tell a story about a boy named Peter. Peter grew up in Nazi occupied Holland. One night, his town was bombed. Peter was afraid,… Continue Reading →

October 22nd 2023 I looked for a book while at the Prince George Public Library. I was thinking about Social Studies and how using a book for a lesson would be fun. I found one on the fur trades in… Continue Reading →

I have heard the term digital literacy before, but have never heard it explained in a way that makes sense to me. I had to start with finding a definition. I found that digital literacy “refers to the knowledge, skills… Continue Reading →

I am from the generation that had to learn about our digital footprint in secondary school. It often felt like it was still being understood when I learned about, but it was something we were told. That the internet was… Continue Reading →

October 2nd, 2023 When we went around in a circle I could not say anything about being the person representing the children who died at residential schools. I knew I would cry. So I talked about the other thing that… Continue Reading →

September 28th, 2023 Ahead of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, I took part of a Fire Circle and Drumming with the UHNBC Drummers as part of EDUC 394. While I had never seen or been apart of drumming with… Continue Reading →

September 18th, 2023 This morning we listened to a talk from Niigaan Sinclair, the keynote speaker this year for SD57’s Indigenous Day of Learning. Two stories from his speech stuck out to me. First, the story of when the young… Continue Reading →