Month: June 2017

Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights Wonder-Full Links & Resources

Tapping Into The Imaginations Of Engineers

June 27, 2017

By Glenn Ellis (Professor of Engineering, Smith College, USA) The year is 1981 and it is the first day of my geotechnical engineering class. The professor enters the classroom and writes on the board: geotech—the dark arts of engineering! We were fascinated and eager to learn all about this magical topic. However, the magic quickly […]Read More

Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights

Teaching Ethics To Adolescents: Imaginative Education In Action

June 23, 2017

By Adriana Grimaldo (Author, Educator, Graduate Student) In my experience, the profession of writing has to do with the ability to transform a series of images in our mind into words. It might sound crazy but, when I wrote Valles y Alturas, De Noche and Viento Austral, I had the feeling that I was seeing the […]Read More

Imaginative Ecological Education (IEE): Activities & Insights Learning In Depth (LiD)

Learning In Depth Meets Imaginative Ecological Education

June 22, 2017

Title: Supporting Ecological Understanding through In-Depth and Imaginative Study of a Place-Based Topic or Issue Abstract: Many have observed that the curriculum is a mile wide and scarcely an inch deep. This article provides a rationale for including in-depth study of a place-based/local topic within educational programs aimed at cultivating ecological understanding. Following a brief exploration of […]Read More

Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights Imaginative Historical Education & Inquiry (IHI): Activities & Insights

Look Out! A Spontaneous Eruption Of Cognitive Tools!

June 16, 2017

By Dr. Tim Waddington You are not going to make it all the way through to the end of this blog, guaranteed! Anyone with even limited teaching experience will attest that the following scenario is true, … can feel true, … has the unsolicited air of ‘truthiness’ lurking about it. Every teacher, even the great […]Read More

$Creative Thinking In Math Classrooms$

Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights Wonder-Full Links & Resources

Creative Thinking In Math Classrooms

June 8, 2017

By Matthew Oldridge (Father, TEDx speaker, mathematics educator, and thinker.) When I was first thinking about mathematics as a critical and creative endeavour, I wrote this piece for The Learning Exchange (Ontario Ministry of Education) blog. It is upsetting that kids don’t see mathematics as a creative, living and vibrant subject. (Some don’t, at least.) […]Read More

Learning In Depth (LiD) Wonder-Full Links & Resources

I’m A LiD Kid: I Study Pests

June 5, 2017

By Kristen Swaren (Grade 6 Student; LiD topic: Pests) Learning In Depth, or LiD, is a collaborative hour block every Tuesday at my school. Everyone has a topic. My topic is pests. Some people choose to work together, and some people choose to work alone. I am working alone because I feel it is better, because […]Read More