Webcomic Gold
Looking for something to read while cooped-up indoors? Enter the Webcomic. Same as regular comics but free, online, and plentiful. But which are the good ones?
Essays, Essais, and Essaisists
Essays are a refined expression of the author's attempt to figure something out, not an argument where once must take a stance and staunchly back it.
SPQR @ GWMS
I’m teaching Social Studies again this year. Grade 8 Social Studies. My curriculum is…world history. Pretty much none of it is off the table. As a fan of history, this is great. I started the year by running a Classroom Story where students create and run their own city-states/islands. We learned about some of the terminology…
Involuntary Hiatus
From mid-2017 until recently, I feel like I developed a bad habit: I was proverbially throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I rejected the good things within a larger body because I didn’t like some of the elements. What did I throw away? My involvement online. The news made me mad, social media seemed…
Let’s Not Microteach
people learn when they're engaged and mentored. Not when they're info-dumped and left hanging
Dichotomy in the Classroom: Teaching a Gaming Generation (Part 3)
I started this series earlier last year (Part 1 & Part 2), examining how video games have become one of our culture’s favourite types of text. But this series is not just about video games. It’s about how the benefits of games can crossover into education. This series stems from my fascination with how people…
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