Cohort 21 | Tomas Johnstone | Activity https://cohort21.com/members/tjohnstone/activity/ Activity feed for Tomas Johnstone. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:13:21 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-CA 30 hourly 2 afd2ec69cc4720531d7425a43e0f939b Tomas Johnstone commented on the post, Lights, iPad, Action!, on the site Ryan Fraser https://cohort21.com/ryanfraser/2018/04/19/lights-ipad-action/#comment-23 Thu, 10 May 2018 16:46:14 -0400 86b9e16c075f6ce2316e14cc6ecbc603 Tomas Johnstone wrote a new post on the site Tomas Johnstone https://cohort21.com/tomasjohnstone/?p=102 Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:53:39 -0400 Last year I was honored to become a member of the #Cohort21 Season 5 group.

It was a year of learning, networking but above all discovering a hunger of finding ways to innovate at school.

After lots of h […]

]]> ab5d5547b862d397c3c4547e4f8704e6 Tomas Johnstone commented on the post, Joe Zoo is not Just a Children's Board Game!, on the site Jennifer Dykerman https://cohort21.com/jenniferdykerman/2018/04/10/joe-zoo-is-not-just-a-childrens-board-game/#comment-48 Wed, 18 Apr 2018 14:13:38 -0400 0ed7a90c2cad8990a9b7aac8aad46e0c Tomas Johnstone wrote a new post on the site Tomas Johnstone http://cohort21.com/tomasjohnstone/?p=87 Fri, 21 Apr 2017 01:11:24 -0400 My daughter’s favorite book is called “It’s okay to make mistakes” by Todd Parr and in one the last pages it says. “It’s ok to be quiet, being quiet can make you a good listener”.

After our F2F at MaRs, I had a […]

]]> 68069c6aea04610c017521ee1cca1518 Tomas Johnstone wrote a new post on the site Tomas Johnstone http://cohort21.com/tomasjohnstone/?p=73 Fri, 20 Jan 2017 20:23:54 -0500 After thinking about my Action Plan, I have decided to divide it into three different areas.

The first one was to
Create meaningful conversations with my students and have them comment on them.
After the f […]

]]> dd377630a063dc628d305764b49c0b20 Tomas Johnstone wrote a new post on the site Tomas Johnstone http://cohort21.com/tomasjohnstone/?p=69 Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:51:11 -0500 Here is my V4.0 question
How might we drive more meaningful learning for our students?
Thanks to @nblair @jweening and @jmedved for your input.

After a morning of deep thinking and active listening, my final […]

]]> 27fb006056732ebbdb2b22dbbd8d9abc Tomas Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/allisonmacrae/2016/11/19/the-third-teacher/#comment-6 Mon, 16 Jan 2017 02:57:15 -0500 Great post Allison

I wonder why after seeing the best companies in the world redesign their working spaces to improve the productivity of their employees we are still
attached to the “old” system of desks and chairs and static classrooms.

In reply to - Allison Macrae wrote a new post on the site Allison Macrae I will never forget when I was asked to close my eyes and picture a classroom from 100 years ago, and then to picture a classroom of today. I was then […] ]]> 78259756055a558c73bfa72a5938db13 Tomas Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/jasonwood/2017/01/09/the-world-without-a-map/#comment-25 Sat, 14 Jan 2017 23:06:34 -0500 Hey @jwood and @brenthurley loved your ideas and I am “mapping” something similar. Let’s talk on friday

In reply to - Jason Wood wrote a new post on the site Jason Wood Imagine showing up to class one day without any lesson plans. Does the thought make you squirm? What would your day look like? Would you hastily have students […] ]]> c1eed7d90eb40ac5326f113e99b74c18 Tomas Johnstone wrote a new post on the site Tomas Johnstone http://cohort21.com/tomasjohnstone/?p=23 Sat, 14 Jan 2017 22:11:33 -0500  

My Action Plan question is on the wall in my class. I look at it every day for a couple of seconds and try to think about one thing I can do that day to make sense of it.

I look at it every day for a […]

]]> 9a9a6ba171c77912d6e0d25dbc27c37d Tomas Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/larajensen/2017/01/14/wherein-i-stop-just-starting-to-start/#comment-23 Sat, 14 Jan 2017 18:58:00 -0500 I agree with you Lara. I have my action plan posted on a wall in my class and my twitter feed is open most of the time on my computer, it’s always there and I look at it everyday but at the same time didn’t want to start working. It’s like a when you open a bar of chocolate and you eat it slowly because you are afraid you are going to finish it.…Read more

In reply to - Lara Jensen wrote a new post on the site Learning by Reflecting on Experiences Have you ever been so excited about something that you didn’t start to work on it because you were waiting for just the right moment to […] ]]> f8f36b8aa76a97888f3ee6665f71da96 Tomas Johnstone wrote a new post on the site Tomas Johnstone http://cohort21.com/tomasjohnstone/?p=43 Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:45:11 -0400 During the registration process for Cohort 21 we were asked the following question: If you were a T-Shirt, what would it say?.  I knew my answer straight away, a statement that I repeat very often to all my […]

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