What are your thoughts on the teacher candidate visual resource?

I was most touched by the poem about algorithms targeting the students and her family creating financial disadvantage. The artistic expression and the dual language presentation were powerful ways to express the experience.

What surprised you? What resonated with you?

What most…[Read more]

I did some annotating of the document in Manifold. I like that tool and would like to learn more about how I might be able to use it with my students to collaboratively annotate readings for class.

My annotations reflect my wonderings and plans:

Related to the quote: “Conceptualizing equity collaboratively made us aware that we also had to u…[Read more]

I chose padlet to describe my course design process. I have been in sessions that used padlet, but never created one myself. I wanted to ticker with it to see what potential it has for my teaching. For this task, the one think I wish I knew how to do is create arrows between the posted notes to demonstrate a…[Read more]

Hi- I lost internet connection while my Flipgrid was trying to upload and can’t seem to find a way to upload it in that section now. I am putting it here instead.

Thanks, Leslie

I created a Liberatory Design Mindset (LDM) activity for my Secondary Science Methods class that I will teach in the fall. Cassandra, Natasha, and Regina all teach the introductory classes in our programs. If all our candidates are introduced to the LDMs in these courses in the big picture way suggested by these colleagues, my students should be…[Read more]

I’m Leslie Keiler, Chair of York’s Department of Teacher Education. The cards I chose were

-students will need to be literate in new ways, and be able to communicate in multiple modalities, contexts, and through many different expressive forms;

-computational thinking can support problem-solving for teacher and students in STEM…[Read more]

I am Leslie Keiler (she/her), Professor and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education at York College.

I enjoyed tinkering with CODAP and think it might be a user friendly option for our candidates and their students to engage with data analysis. Many of my students struggles with Excel or Google Sheets in class this spring, meaning that the…[Read more]