When your students learn about Source Code

I've created some very kind hearted (not so evil) genius hackers!

Great little birthday surprise!

Augmented Christmas

Quiver is a fantastic resource that allows students to draw pictures and watch them turn into Augmented Reality. Use the app to scan your picture and once drawn, scan it and turn it into a 3D moving image (similar to a Pokemon Go character).

Class Inquiry Project

As a culminating Task students were asked to use all the skills they gathered this year and create a meaningful and relevant project. These projects addressed students own learning and interests. They worked on and built this blog as a means of showing the world their fantastic project.

http://mrbutlersinquiries.blogspot.ca/ 

GAFE Innovators Day 1

TCDSB been hosting Innovators series for the past several years. These workshops revolve around the NeXt lesson competencies and focus on creating a rich inquiry-based classroom.
This year the focus was on use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) specifically Google Apps for Education (GAFE).
Attached is the GAFE slideshow used to for the presentation. The authors include Ben Di Millo, Anita Arpaia and myself.

Google & GAFE

Recently, I wrote my test to obtain my Google Education Certification. Inspired by my board recently becoming a Google board I have been actively researching the power of Google. Below is a small presentation I created to introduce others into the power of Google & Google Apps For Education (GAFE).

Student Conference Math

As part of our Student Conferences, I had students look back at their learning. All year students have been responsible for playing Prodigy Math, Reading texts of their choosing and using their agenda.
As part of their math this week students were working on mean, mode and median. As a class we created Google Sheets and shared it with everyone in the class. Students input their data for each area and then were responsible for determining the class mean, mode and median and then graphing all of it. This information was powerful in helping students discover their strengths and areas where they need help.