Michelle Fenn

ECOO Support Series Spring Klara Redford _ Michelle McKay #ECOOEarlyYears

#ECOOearlyYears Series: Building a Maker Mindset in the Early Years Learning Environment

Educational Computing Organization of Ontario #EarlyYears, #ECOOearlyYears, Klara Redford, Michelle Fenn, Spring 2021, ssSpring2021, Support Series

4 Sessions (Register once, attend all four sessions)

~~Tuesday, April 6, 2021 7-8 pm ET~~ (session recording below)
~~Tuesday, April 20, 2021 7-8 pm ET~~ (postponed)
Tuesday, May 4, 2021 7-8 pm ET
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 7-8 pm ET

Description: Dedicated to Early Years educators, this multi-session support series will begin with a look back at the joyful journey that many Kindergarten students undertook this past year as part of their exploration and inquiry into “Making” in the Kindergarten virtual learning environment (VLE).

Sessions will rotate bi-weekly between speaker presentations and sharing sessions. Speaker presentations will be focused on sharing information about getting started with making in a virtual Kindergarten learning environment and extending opportunities for children to make while learning online in a responsive way. During sharing sessions, you will have the opportunity to collaborate and discuss with other educators your experiences and plan next steps that can be used within your practice. Our last session will focus on how we can continue as a community to support one another in our maker journeys, and beyond! #ECOOEarlyYears

60-minute sessions
Tuesday nights (7:30 – 8:30 pm)

April 6th: Setting Sail with Making in the Virtual Kindergarten Classroom
Mentor texts, technology and artifacts of student learning will be shared to exemplify and amplify student voice and choice as our learners planned, created, innovated, failed up, persevered, collaborated and communicated their ideas and maker journeys – an example of the sincere JOYS of learning while at home! Educators will be invited to integrate some of this new learning into their current practices and share their experiences during the next session, April 20.

April 20th – Reflection/Chat/Community Building

May 4th: Cruising with Creating in the Early Years Classroom

This session will follow-up on educator experiences in Session #1 and 2 and how we can extend our understanding of making and the maker mindset through cross-curricular experiences. We will look at deepening our understanding of how ‘making’ naturally links to computational thinking and all of the math processes. Student examples of ‘making’ linked to coding and spatial reasoning will be shared. Educators will be invited to integrate some of this new learning into their current practices and share their experiences during the next session, May 18th.

May 18th – Reflection/Chat/Continuation of Community Building

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Voices from Ontario: Learning Together at Home podcast

Educational Computing Organization of Ontario ECOO News, Podcast, Together #LearningTogetherAtHome, #OntarioEducatorsUnited, Alanna King, Andrew Forgrave, Aviva Dunsiger, Colin Jagoe, Danika Tipping, front, Jamie Reaburn, Jason Trinh, Michelle Fenn, Ontario: Learning Together at Home, Rolland Chidiac, Tim King, Zoe Branigan-Pipe

The Ontario: Learning Together at Home podcast now features 11 voices from Ontario educators. In these podcasts, educators share their initial reactions to the shut-down of Ontario schools, and unpack their feelings and thoughts as they wrestle with the challenge of working with learners from home, rather from the familiar setting of their classrooms.

Each voice shares some kind of insight or reflection that hopefully resonates and provides some small guidance. As we all continue to explore how education in Ontario is currently different from the norm, it is more important than ever that we collaborate and work together to guide things towards the best possible experience for our learners.

Please keep an eye on this series — we have many more voices on the way — and do continue to share and support one another. The #LearningTogetherAtHome and #OntarioEducatorsUnited tags are one way to unite and share resources and experiences.

Episodes:

Ep 10 Michelle Fenn

Educational Computing Organization of Ontario ECOO News, Podcast #OntarioEducatorsUnited, front, Michelle Fenn, Ontario: Learning Together at Home

Recently, learners and educators throughout Ontario began working together under very different circumstances. In what has been described by the provincial government as Continuous Learning, and by others as Emergency Remote Learning, Ontario Teachers are again working with their students — not in their classrooms — but rather from their homes. Join us as we converse with Ontario educators and hear, in their own voices, what it is like to be in Ontario: Learning Together at Home.

Michelle Fenn is an Instructional Leadership Consultant with the portfolios of Innovations and NTIP at the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board. Among other things, we explore her commitment to connecting in a different way with teachers in her district.