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Change Trailer.m4v

A student created video to explore the concept of change in our new unit.
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Creating Classrooms We Need: 8 Ways Into Inquiry Learning | MindShift

Creating Classrooms We Need: 8 Ways Into Inquiry Learning | MindShift | #PYPchat | Scoop.it
If kids can access information from sources other than school, and if school is no longer the only place where information lives, what, then happens to the
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A collaboration with KinderPals | KC

A collaboration with KinderPals | KC | #PYPchat | Scoop.it
During a recent Skype meeting with our KinderPals in Canada, the two classes agreed to collaborate to write a fictional story.
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10 ways to encourage student reflection…

10 ways to encourage student reflection… | #PYPchat | Scoop.it
Split Screen Teaching Optimal learning occurs when students are active participants in their own learning, rather than passive recipients of teacher-delivered content. For this to be effective, stu...
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1 90 Metacognition Dylan Wiliam Learning and teaching

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The International Baccalaureate – A Continuum: DP, MYP & PYP ...

The International Baccalaureate – A Continuum: DP, MYP & PYP ... | #PYPchat | Scoop.it
The International Baccalaureate Program Authored by Thomas Jerome Baker “An international education must go well beyond the provision of information and is involved in the development of attitudes and values which ...
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Calendata Events: Pecha Kucha

Calendata Events: Pecha Kucha | #PYPchat | Scoop.it
See on Scoop.it – Pecha Kucha & English Language Teaching Back by popular demand, Pecha Kucha Night (PKN), the global design networking/social event that draws creative talents together is back for its fifteenth instalment.
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Inquiring into the inquiry planner…

When I published a post about planning recently, I wasn’t quite sure whether it would have broader appeal than the IB community. I included a link to a blank planner to give a sense of what ...
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Abstract Art and Science – Teaching Paradox

Abstract Art and Science – Teaching Paradox | #PYPchat | Scoop.it

Using abstract art to reflect on scientific conepts

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PERSPECTIVE by whatedsaid

PERSPECTIVE by whatedsaid | #PYPchat | Scoop.it

A ToonDoo cartoon ~ all of the PYP key concpets are here

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Causation Trailer FINAL.m4v

Student created video to explore the concept of 'Causation' in our new unit, How The World Works.
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Change Trailer.m4v

A student created video to explore the concept of change in our new unit.
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Tech Transformation: Concepts -v- Topics

Tech Transformation: Concepts -v- Topics | #PYPchat | Scoop.it

While many teachers have now come to believe that teaching facts is not the best form of education, many are still confused about the difference between concepts and topics.

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A Personal Journey into Inquiry

Inquire Within has become like a steamy cup of my favorite cup of Earl Grey tea and  really has brought me along professionally as an inquiry teacher. I feel like I’m new to the inquiry mode...
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Visible Thinking

Visible Thinking | #PYPchat | Scoop.it

Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning.

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Being the inquirer I want to see: lessons from an inquiry into Twitter part 1.

Being the inquirer I want to see: lessons from an inquiry into Twitter part 1. | #PYPchat | Scoop.it
Somewhat late to the party,  I have finally entered the twittersphere.  I am still very green  and I’m a long way from the ’wow’ column in the assessment rubric –  but far enough in...
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Student reflection

You can’t just reflect at the end…...
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The Grade 6 PYP Exhibition

The Grade 6 PYP Exhibition | #PYPchat | Scoop.it
Hi! Yesterday (7 June 2012) we saw the G6 exhibition. First there was the opening ceremony in the LLAC (Leo Lee Arts Center), the students and some teachers there talked about what the exhibition was for.
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International School of Amsterdam – Curriculum | Profesorbaker's ...

International School of Amsterdam – Curriculum | Profesorbaker's ... | #PYPchat | Scoop.it
See on Scoop.it – International Baccalaureate Program The Diploma Program (DP) is an academically focused curriculum for students ages sixteen to eighteen (grades 11 and 12) preparing to enter university.
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Sharing the Planet – VoiceThread Style « The Learning Journey ...

Sharing the Planet – VoiceThread Style « The Learning Journey ... | #PYPchat | Scoop.it
Interested in enhancing learning through technology (by Jason Graham) (Just posted http://t.co/STNkVRIj with thanks to @dwyerteacher, @mramidon @sducharme #pypchat #ibpyp #pyp…)…See on thelearningjourney.org.
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Concept driven learning…

Concept driven learning… | #PYPchat | Scoop.it
Some ‘big ideas’ about concept driven learning: (From this week’s little #pypchat on Twitter) The world is changing. Knowledge is changing. The ability to view the world with a mo...
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A Whole New Mind | Daniel Pink

A Whole New Mind | Daniel Pink | #PYPchat | Scoop.it

The era of “left brain” dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which “right brain” qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate.

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Tuning In using Chatterboxes or by Unpacking our Central Idea

Tuning In using Chatterboxes or by Unpacking our Central Idea | #PYPchat | Scoop.it
I have been trying to find engaging and effective ways to begin our Units of Inquiry at the Tuning In phase to set the stage for maximum interest and involvement for the inquiry ahead.
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Connection trailer.m4v

A student created video to explore the concept of connection in our new unit.
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What’s the big idea?

What’s the big idea? | #PYPchat | Scoop.it
This week I participated in a workshop on concept based curriculum and instruction presented by Lynn Erickson. We discussed the idea that information is useless unless you can do something with it....
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IBtv » Blog Archive » AEM Regional Conference 2011 The Hague – Lynn Erickson

IBtv » Blog Archive » AEM Regional Conference 2011 The Hague – Lynn Erickson | #PYPchat | Scoop.it
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