Articles by Sylwia Bielec
Sylwia Bielec is an instructional designer and pedagogical consultant at LEARN. Her expertise is in professional learning, reflective practice and informal/community learning. She also has a background in media production with students. She is the editor of the LEARN blog.
Making meaning, making media
Schools and many homes today are equipped with at the very least some rudimentary form of media-making device. My own two-year old loves grabbing the iPad and going for the camera icon, clumsily taking pictures …
Telling it Like it Is, Part II: Action Research and Data Collection
In my previous post on Action Research in the classroom, I wrote about the idea of action research as a form of self-directed professional learning. I think that we learn to be better teachers by …
Telling It Like It Is: Action research and asking the right question
I was animating a short morning session on the practice of Action Research last week. It was Friday, to be exact, the kind of rainy morning you wished you were cocooned in a bathrobe somewhere …
Interaction or Interactivity? How we use IWBs and electronic tablets
L’original de ce texte à été publié en français le lundi, 3 octobre, 2011.
This is the English version.
The current adoption of IWBs (Interactive White Boards)by educators, coupled with the growing popularity of tablet computers in schools …
