Sylwia Bielec | July 3, 2012
by Sophie Bass and Melanie Stonebanks Welcome back to the Warm Heart of Africa! This second posting in the series was greatly assisted by Mr. Henry Lemani who not only provided the necessary background information on which this...
Read MoreSylwia Bielec | June 6, 2012
By Melanie Stonebanks and Sophie Bass For four years now, my husband, Dr. Christopher Stonebanks, has been traveling in the late springtime to Malawi, fondly referred to as “The Warm Heart of Africa”. For five weeks out of the...
Read MoreSylwia Bielec | May 15, 2012
“I believe that the theme ‘again and again’ is paramount in cycle one. Children (people) don’t always ‘get it’ on the first round, or second, or third. Children love to do the same activity again and...
Read MoreSylwia Bielec | March 13, 2012
A few weeks ago, I had lunch with a group of educators, among them a pair of Cycle One teachers from the francophone sector. We got to talking about a series of learning and evaluation situations that we had been asked to review...
Read MoreSylwia Bielec | January 19, 2012
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 of her thumb, her...
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