Who defines Progress?

Progress can be, and some may argue, should be defined differently across socio economic and cultural lines.



Link to Critique (Podcast)

• interrogating systems of meaning
• social class
• who benefits?
• Can there be social justice?
• participation in social practices which perpetuate inequities
• priviledge
  

Electronics at School

Some Grade 4 girls argue that students should be allowed to bring electronic equipment to school.

Link to their Podcast

What it is we need is...

A group of Grade 4 boys put together this podcast to ask for more sports equipment. They had fun and did a great job. They came up with some great reasons.

Link to More Equipment

Advocating for themselves

Some Grade 5 students came up with some ideas that could help struggling learners ensure success on tests. I really liked watching them develop the ideas and work together to advocate for themselves. Well done!

Link to File

Rewriting Popular lyrics

Our Grade 4 girls rewrote the lyrics to a popular song to make it more applicable to their lives.

Link to File

Let's begin

Greetings all, and welcome to the blog for kids. It is going to begin as an experimental location where I learn along with my students. I hope to engage them in some interesting, "new literacy" learning.

We will experiment with wiki's, podcasts, fan fiction... any suggestions? Bring on the Web 2.0. Now if I can only figure out how to log in again.

N.B. for now, we will remain anonymous.