The Breaking the Blocks: Interdisciplinary Design Jam will be deeply connected to the core pillars of a deep dive - Integrated disciplines, Collaborative Care, and Inspired Authentic Learning. I hope that teachers/teams of teachers can work together to plan a real, or speculative, fully integrated learning experience for their real school context that knocks down traditional curricular barriers, creates authentic learning for the participants (and authentic learning, later on, for their students), and reflects their real-life work/community context, needs, and kids. The focus of this workshop is to think big, get our hands dirty with the BC Curriculum, and create something that can transform opportunities for kids.
Danny Leeming is a secondary educator from Castlegar, BC, Canada who works in a rural, grade 7-12 school as a teacher-librarian, technology integration specialist, and teacher/creator of the school's Performance and Media Academy. He has a Master of Educational Technology from the... Read More →
