Update: August 7, 2010. Paper accepted for publication in the upcoming edition of Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy, Perspectives: The Digital, 7(2). Initiating Collaborators: Rodd Lucier (@thecleversheep), Ben Hazzard (@benhazzard) and Kathy Hibbert (@khibbert) Reflecting On and Imagining Professional Development for Teachers in the Digital Age A week ago, Rodd Lucier, Kathy Hibbert, and I [...]
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What Would Yoda Do?
Reflecting On and Imagining Professional Development for Teachers in the Digital Age A recent ‘call for submissions’ by the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, prompted three of us interested in the influence of ‘the digital’ on curriculum and pedagogy to convene a meeting and discuss how we might contribute to this conversation. Individually, we work [...]
Timmy’s & A Tip #4: Listening To Students
Episode #4: – Tim the Student - Twitter | Blog - TEDxOntarioEd.caDownload and Listen to Timmys & A Tip #4: Listening To Students e-mail: ben@mrhazzard.com
What motivated me on the TEDxOntarioEd journey?
If you had been there after the TEDxOntarioEd event you would have seen it. After the 13 satellite locations across North America had shut off their web cameras and laptops. After the speakers, live and remote, had settled their nerves, given their talks and moved on. After in person attendees had left the TEDx site [...]
TEDxOntarioEd: Moments of Adversity that Empower
There was Tim, a grade 11 student, standing in the spotlight at TEDxOntarioEd with his baseball cap on shielding his eyes from the glare. He spoke about what motivates students who are not succeeding in school. Just a few slides into the 5 minute presentation, which was following academics, teachers, a Hollywood writer, a journalist, [...]
Media Literacy: A Red Herring or Students as Producers
This is my presentation to the MECY & ManACE Media Literacy Event on November 2nd, 2009.
Cyber Bullying: Ramifications for Ontario Principals
Recently I have posted a few presentations from my Principal’s Qualfication Program, Part 1 course. This presentation examines the legal ramifications of cyber bullying: student to student, and student to teacher. The safe schools section of the Education Act in Ontario, Canada is the lens through which certain cases are viewed. The seminal case, Killion [...]
Personal Devices on School / District Networks
Recently I created a google survey that asked if educators were allowed to connect personal devices to their district / school networks. Fifty-five educators from around the world, literally, responded. The results were half and half. Thank you to everyone who shared their information. Personal Devices On School / District Networks View more presentations from [...]
The Stories of Hockey: Community Building
Boys on the Ice by Derrick Glenn Mercer Stories are as much a part of hockey as ice, missing teeth, and mullet haircuts. I have just returned from my weekly Saturday night pickup hockey league that I organize. This group of men has been playing together for 5 years. One characteristic of communities is the [...]
Classrooms as Communities: Are Teachers Knowledge Workers or Community Organizers?
I hate being labeled a Knowledge Worker. I am aware of the official designation and teachers are often sorted into this category, but I am unsettled with the implication of this term. Labeling teachers knowledge workers is like calling farmers seed planters. Certainly farmers plant seeds and teachers do work with knowledge. However, if you [...]
