By the way, first contest for grades 9 - 12 is on November 25!
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This week's Student of the Week is Amy Z (thanks for the photo Natasha)!
A few years ago I had the idea to organize some social events in the downtown area that students and teachers could attend together. We started with a small group (15 people) who visited the Christmas Lights and the VanDusen Gardens. It was a cold, but fun, evening. Then the teachers' strike happened and everything went Pfffffft... But we (Mr. Wiebe and I) are going to start it up again! We are hoping to organize three or four different events this year. And here is the first one... What: the Vancouver International Film Festival is about to start and we are going to go see a movie together. Specifically, this one... Looks great! And after, we can head to a coffee place for hot chocolate, etc and discuss (very informally) the movie
When: Tuesday, September 29 at 7:00 pm (this is when the movie STARTS) Where: International Village Who: KG students (current, past, and future), teachers, friends of our school Why: it'll be fun Cost: $8 for your movie ticket How to sign-up: bring $8 to Mr. Wadge to sign up. We only have 25 tickets so let me know ASAP if you want to come. This is short notice!! So act fast and sign up NOW!! “This is the last century that our children will ever have been taught that one times one is one,” he says. “They won’t have to grow up in ignorance. Twenty years from now, they’ll know that one times one equals two. We’re about to show a new truth. The true universal math. And the proof is in these pieces. I have created the pieces that make up the motion of the universe. We work on them about 17 hours a day. She cuts and puts on the crystals. I do the main work of soldering them together. They tell the truth from within.” … After high school, he attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, studying chemical engineering, until he got into an argument with a professor about what one times one equals. “How can it equal one?” he said. “If one times one equals one that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect. One times one equals two because the square root of four is two, so what’s the square root of two? Should be one, but we’re told it’s two, and that cannot be.” This did not go over well, he says, and he soon left school. “I mean, you can’t conform when you know innately that something is wrong.” After a decade-long campaign against assigning kids too much work to be completed at home, homework is definitely making a comeback in Canadian schools.
The latest revival was clearly spawned by recent research, summarized in a 2014 Canadian Council of Ministers of Education (CMEC) booklet, testifying to the “positive benefits” of homework. Instead of asking “how much is too much?” the key question today is, “how much is enough?” The homework backlash is fizzling-out as parents and teachers recognize that too little rather than too much is now expected of most public school students. Assigning homework is now considered avant garde in the 21st century digital learning world. Some of the most exciting innovations emerging across the continent are based upon homework activities. The best example is the so-called “flipped classroom” model where students are expected to utilize the Internet to watch videos as 21st century-style “homework” and teachers are encouraged to utilize class time for interactive, follow-up learning activities. |
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