For my next free inquiry creation, I made a baby Triceratops! This project took two days to complete, as it was a tough one. I learned a new technique called stitching, used for a type of Rainbow Loom project called Loomigurimi, which is essentially crochet with Rainbow Loom bands. I’ve attached a video to this…
This week, we viewed the resource Focused Ed. This resource looks amazing for teachers and has a bunch of quicklinks to some educational resources. We checked out the different levels of World Book. Something that jumped out to me was the fact that students can change the language of the articles. This offers equity in…
In class on week 3, we had a guest speaker talk about AI usage in School District 63, and what they’re doing to implement AI and technology use correctly in the classroom. We also looked at the Focused ED AI Curriculum and digital literacy resources surrounding AI from the BC Ministry of Education. Something that…
For my first Free Inquiry creation, I made a little dolphin! Here’s a glimpse at the first step: creating the fins of the dolphin. This is what they look like on the loom before looping all the bands together. Here are the two pectoral fins and one dorsal fin looped together and off the loom,…
The past two weeks in EDCI336 have been introductory classes. I chose my free inquiry project (making loom band animals) and learned about privacy and consent in the classroom. We got some good resources in the form of the online platform BlueSky, a space similar to Twitter/X that has pages just for educators to connect….
For my first post, I wanted to talk about my free inquiry project. I love creative projects, and when I was a kid, Rainbow Loom came out. I was mostly interested in making bracelets, like other elementary school-aged girls at the time. My mom bought me a book with different designs to try, and I…