"Only Works For A While"

"Original song written and performed by Jenna Spowart.
Poem written and performed by Shane Koyczan.
Video by students and staff of Georges P. Vanier Secondary School..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqmnY5IveJU

Education for Tomorrow - 2012/2013 Transformation + Technology Update

Vision;

As a government, we want all learners to achieve their potential. As a province,

we need them to succeed.

We are entering a world of accelerating change, a time of thinking globally and

acting quick, when it’s not what you know but how you use that knowledge that

matters. Tomorrow’s citizens will need knowledge but, even more, they’ll need

passion and drive. They’ll need to be creators, not just consumers, of new and

innovative ways to learn...

http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/pubs/tt-plan/2012_bced_tt_plan.pdf

BC's Education Plan

"... at the fall meeting of BC Student Voice, Education Minister George Abbott addressed student leaders and launched BC’s Education Plan to build on the system’s strengths and put students at the centre of their own learning."

View the plan here,

http://www.bcedplan.ca/

Personalized Learning in BC

The Ministry of Education has released a new interactive discussion guide on personalized learning.  The guide is intended to provide information and give an overview of personalized learning and an opportunity to submit your feedback and questions to the Ministry of Education.


Follow the link to view the interactive guide:
http://www.personalizedlearningbc.ca/#/1

Instructions for using the interactive guide:

 ·Viewing and navigating the document
     Use the navigation pane at the bottom of the page (grey bar)
     “view full screen” command is on the right corner
      Advance to next page is in the middle
      and the zoom and home buttons are on the far left
      you may also click and drag on the corners of the pages to turn
      them.

· Feedback may be typed into the appropriate text boxes, click on the “submit” button for each completed response when done.

Dr Paul Kershaw - "Smart and Green Family Policy"

"Dr Paul Kershaw is a farmer morning and night. By day, he is an academic, public speaker, media contributor and volunteer. "Armed with a laptop and a raft of statistics," The Vancouver Province describes him as "a one-man road show trying to change BC one talk at a time."
Change is necessary, he argues, because BC's generation of 25-44 year olds struggle, which is having harmful consequences for the next generation of children. 30% of BC children arrive at kindergarten developmentally vulnerable, and most are not poor.
Among the general public, he argues that 'Being Canadian' may be making us sick, because the medical system in which we take national pride shows more of a disease fetish than an aspiration to promote health by investing in families with young kids."
His five part presentation "Smart and Green Family Policy" can be found on his blog....

http://blogs.ubc.ca/paulkershaw/

New, FREE Learning Resources from ICBC

ICBC has worked with teachers and road safety experts to prepare NEW, free of charge learning resources to ensure that B.C. students develop road safety skills and awareness. These educational materials support prescribed learning outcomes as established by the B.C. Ministry of Education for students in Kindergarten through Grade 10. Activities in these guides relate road safety concerns to larger issues such as personal and social responsibility, risk assessment and decision-making. More information available at;

http://www.icbc.com/4teachers

Learning to Change - Changing to Learn

Advancing K -12 Technology;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tahTKdEUAPk&feature=player_embedded