Re-thinking learning for the 21st Century
Written by Mike Arsenault
Cohort 21 has really inspired me to think and be different as an educator. It provided the framework, freedom, and excuse to more deeply explore a ‘world’ that I had merely looked into from outside. This process started very early for me, inspired by @mrathier in her chemistry courses at LCS. In my initial attempt […]
Written by Mike Arsenault
Our school offers a program called LEAP (Lakefield’s Education Apprenticeship Program) which hires teachers on a one-year contract position who have recently finished their Bachelor’s or Master’s of Education. The goal of the program is to provide mutual benefit: new ideas from the mentee and wisdom and experience from the mentor. Since late August, I have […]
Written by Mike Arsenault
Travis Fuchs (@TTHFuchs) and I have spent a sizeable chunk of time through the winter months looking at “Misconceptions” in biology. We have recently submitted an application to STAO (Science Teachers Association of Ontario) to provide a poster presentation at the 2016 fall conference. We are also planning to publish a paper in an educational […]
Written by Mike Arsenault
I am one of two faculty members that have launched a new course at LCS this year (mine is the SVN 3M Environmental Science). The last new course to be introduced at LCS was 4 years ago (a new one that I was also fortunate to launch at that time as a fully online course for […]
Written by Mike Arsenault
In preparation for our second Face-to-Face session the Cohort 21 facilitators sent us a survey. One of the questions was “At this early stage, what (if any) of the following areas are you interested in learning more about?”. There was a list of 12 options and I remember thinking “I want to click all […]
