How Curriculum Theory, Change Theory, Research on Online Learning, and an Exploration of Data Specific to Children in B.C. Wove Together to Make an Impact on My Thinking as a Teacher-Researcher

What started out as a new job at an online school has turned into a deep exploration of a system I knew little about. The main reason I chose the Master of Education in Education Technology at UVIC was to give myself the time and resources to learn more about online schools and the system […]

Rhythms of the Earth

Today I read the chapter, “Sonare and Videre: A Story, Three Echoes and a Lingering Note” from a keynote address in 1990, as I continue to read Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki. The chapter brought me back to a place in time when I intentionally connected my […]

An Inspirited Web

Today, I am thinking about the word “inspirited” helps me think differently, after reading the text, “Spinning Inspirited Images in the Midst of Planned and Live(d) Curricula” written by Ted Aoki. I am reminded of an intricate spider’s web, fastened between this and that. I included in this post a photo of a spider’s web […]

The Boundary Layer

One idea in Aoki’s writing that resonates with my experience teaching is his insight on the space between curriculum-as-plan and the lived curriculum. I am thinking specifically about how Aoki explains that things can grow in this space. When reading the description, my mind immediately thought of a space called the boundary layer where mosses […]

A Space of “This” and “That”

Ted Aoki’s chapter “Imaginaries of “East” and “West”: Slippery Curricular Signifiers in Education” from the book Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki, asked me today to stop and ponder every day and overlooked in a new way. The chapter delves quickly and deeply into abstractions that ask […]

Connection to Heart

Today I read the chapter “Layered voices in teaching: The uncannily correct and the elusively true” from Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki, while listening to the splashing of my garden pond. I planned to sit outside on this beautiful summer morning to ground myself in a thoughtful […]

Invisible Connections?

Today, I read “Understanding Curriculum Amidst Doing Curriculum Research” by my professor at UVIC, Dr. Jennifer Thom. In class, we were thinking about where we are as a person, learner, and/or teacher, and where we could be. We started thinking about key experiences in our lives that shaped who we are and about what ideas […]

Branches and Roots of a Family Tree

After reading Chapter 20, “Reflections of a Japanese Canadian Teacher Experiencing Ethnicity” from Curriculum in a New Key, I was reminded of my family history as a settler in Canada. I related to the idea of viewing my life not in a “monovision” (Pinar & Irwin, 347) and not even in a double vision as […]

Constructivism and Online Teaching

The learning theory of constructivism best describes my beliefs as a teacher and what I focus on whenever possible when I am working directly with students and planning lessons. A text that I found useful to place my understanding of constructivism in the field of online teaching was a chapter called Foundations of Educational Theory for […]

Sea to School

“Innovation floats on a sea of inquiry” (Halbert & Kaser, 2013)

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