Tom Currie

Educational Design Specialist working with Westmount Charter School in YYC to build a better today, by tomorrow.

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

@palliserc “you can’t feel pain when you’re laughing” @RHanleyDafoe - thinking of connection btwn mirror neurons, fail-army and teens… #pdtc22 #resilientEd

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

Quick #teachertip for any new online classrooms out there... I signed up as a student in my own class. IMO better than just previewing a page; this kid has a backstory, makes mistakes, and does the assignments. #teachertech #designEd #processEd #innovatEd

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

An evening with @SubbanKarl #sketchnotes — one teacher and dad learning from another. #redefinethewordpotential #beauty

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

Day 89 of “90 Days of Innovations” (SEE my IG feed). PD session by @drspfeiffer lends a lens to examine the course design: Is it only relevant to #giftedEd, is it deeper or broader? Does it work for ALL gifted? or All? or AT ALL? #designEd #innovatEd #makerEd #sketchnotes

[Jared A. Nichol @mrnichol]

I wish I knew of this site a long time ago. So awesome. Even better now that I have a laser in my garage 😉https://t.co/gGIgvTXUxC @MrMacnology @stevewclark @MarcGobeil @dramaticscience #makered #make #lasercut #lasercutter #pewpew

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

Been a while, thought it was time to share something! #innovatEd https://t.co/KWqjyKJFyS

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

with @culturalshift today and tomorrow remembering when and why. #designEd #dreamEd

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

convocate today - but online; it was a #distanceEd degree afterall... #ETAD2019 #masterEd 👏👏 @usaskEducation

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

@misterwashburn @mraspinall I realized my makerspace only worked when kids told me what the expectations were, not the other way around. The stdnts leave room for pivots and adjustments and that drive the innovative process not the reward incentives #imho

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

@mraspinall would gavin have built that program if he knew/thought he was getting a mark for it ahead of time? #thoughtsfromtheback #erlcedtech

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

Instead of compromising on pedagogy I just changed the report card. 10:15 #erlcedtech #justexcitedisall

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

“we ought never let evaluation drive instruction” @mraspinall but UBD (inst/des) calls for it b/c it’s a reality of the infrastructure we teach in. I’ll show you how I reconciled the conflict in my session at 10:15 #erlcedtech

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

@mraspinall just announced a visitation by a #bigredfox at #erlcedtech but I don’t know if I’m ready for that.

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

last board... #etad877 #processEd #whatsthatagain?!

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

@TrevorRPoole @KylieKissel @edTechEvans @mrkempnz @EdTechMac @varga_mel @mraspinall @brianaustralia @iteachoverseas @dantaylorAE @TanyaLeClair @proteanteacher I buy reams of packing paper from Home Depot or the like - the low-fi, large format, recycled feel gives just the right amount of “keep or throw-away?” to student design artifacts.

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

@KylieKissel @TrevorRPoole @mrkempnz @EdTechMac @varga_mel @mraspinall @brianaustralia @iteachoverseas @dantaylorAE @TanyaLeClair @proteanteacher @edTechEvans maybe not even ‘solve’ the problems; sometimes it’s even better to reward “attacking” the problems... #designEd #creatEd #makerEd #processEd

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

minor deviations
#nameplate #makeyourownartclass

edtech cross pollination:

1) peruse google images to find an appropriate model to sketch
2) draw on techniques observed having watched… https://t.co/pJatgk3rBr

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

Well, thank Zarquod that’s over and done with... #shawacademy 😓 Now to use the experience to build the Distance Learning Narrative #ETAD2018 #GradLife https://t.co/amPdZdnkmb

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

@heatfishie I found myself resting in this paper -- Weisberg, Deena Skolnick et al. (2013). Guided Play: Where Curricular Goals Meet a Playful Pedagogy. Mind, Brain, and Education, 7(2), 104-112. (DM me a gmail account and I'll share)

[Tom Currie @dramaticscience]

@JackieGroat @Amber_Hartwell @UCalgaryEduc @UCalgary I have grown fond of substituting all technology scenarios with the #pencilchat and playing out policy that way. I wonder if “effective-use” or “affective-use” policies might also allow stdns to fail-forward?