OCDSBXL
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -Stories of powerful learning, and powerful learners, in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.
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OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E13) - Learning Using the Tools of Today (with Marc Dubeau)
July 29, 2021 18:41 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MBIn this episode of the XL Podcast, I speak to Marc Dubeau from Osgoode Township High School about where the world of computer generated animation is heading and how, despite the constraints, he and his students have managed to keep up and, in some cases, leap beyond in pursuit of creative, sophisticated virtual reality, augmented reality, and full performance motion capture animation. When Marc first suggested that students, with the right tools, could create in augmented and virtual realit...
OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E12) - Part 3 - Carolyn Johnston's Grade 6 Students - Learning Adventures in Space and the Skies.mp3
July 29, 2021 17:06 - 54 minutes - 75.6 MBIn this episode of the XL Podcast, part three in our series of conversations with Carolyn Johnston about “learning adventures”, Space and The Science of Flight, we turn the mics over to some of Carolyn’s grade 6 learners to hear more about the learning experience, how it contributed to their sense of purpose, meaning, contribution, and belonging, and all while learning virtually during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E11) - Part 2 - The Science of Flight (w Carolyn Johnston) - A Learning Adventure to the Moon and Back Again
July 29, 2021 17:06 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBWhat if the test of our belief in the capacity of our students involved a true leap of faith? What if our belief involved challenging our assumptions about baselines; challenged our thinking about "learning loss" by taking one giant leap, I mean a giant leap: like in the footsteps of a space program…? What if we began in space and worked our way down from there? In this episode of the XL Podcast, part two in our series of conversations with Carolyn Johnston, we pick up, maybe lift off, fr...
OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E10) - Part 1 - Learning Adventures Take to the Skies (with Carolyn Johnston)
July 29, 2021 17:06 - 36 minutes - 50 MBWhat if our belief in the capacity of students involved challenging our assumptions about baselines; challenged our thinking about "learning loss" by taking one giant leap, I mean a giant leap like in the footsteps of a space program…? What if we began in space and worked our way down from there? In this episode of the XL Podcast, part one of a two-part series with Carolyn Johnston, we talk about learning adventures; as you’ll hear, this particular adventure begins in space, and bridges, l...
OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E9) - Part 2 - CNX: A Space To Be Seen As If For The First Time (with Marilyn McMillan & Geordie Walker)
June 18, 2021 19:07 - 1 hour - 102 MBIn part 2 of our series looking at Hillcrest High School’s CNX program I talk with Marilyn McMillan, the educator who transformed ideas and theory into a learning experience like no other; a community which revolves and evolves in space: for learners to see themselves, be themselves, and to begin from anywhere. Marilyn and I are joined by Principal Geordie Walker. Together, our conversation spins a narrative from theory to action in an effort that has resulted in students seeing themselve...
OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E8) - Part 1 - Seeing Ghosts; Discovering Genius (with Geordie Walker)
June 10, 2021 19:48 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MBGeordie Walker is the self-described “proud Principal of Hillcrest High School.” Moreover, he is a model for educational leadership: the kind of professional educator we ought to aspire to. In our conversation, Part 1 of a series looking at Hillcrest High School’s CNX (pronounced "Connects") - an initiative that seeks to serve the most underserved students by starting with relationship and an acknowledgement of genius - Geordie and I discuss “ghosts” - visibly disengaged students who we of...
OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E7) - Everywhere a Missed Opportunity: For Inventing and Learning (with Richard Young)
June 04, 2021 19:26 - 1 hour - 101 MBRichard is the polymath engineer-cum-educator behind the most innovative robotics program that I have encountered in the OCDSB. In my conversation with Richard, we talk about wondering “what’s under the hood” as the first step to imagining something that doesn’t exist. The next step? According to Richard, it is creating that something in, making that something in, our own image. Further Reading: TEJ3M Robotics – Mars Rover Project: LIVE in Mr. Young’s Living Room
OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E6) - Part 2 - Learning is the Enterprise (with Jason Whiting)
May 28, 2021 17:24 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBIn the midst of the most disruptive period in public education in recent memory, Jason Whiting chose two paths that stand out as exceptional: first, reflecting upon his practice he saw the urgency for more student agency; second, with a little support and a little inspiration, he was willing to try something entirely new: what if while learning grade 4 Math and Language his students could help even just one person? It was a provocation both his students and he were willing to commit to. The...
OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E5) - Part 1 - Learning is the Enterprise (with Jason Whiting)
May 13, 2021 15:02 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MBIn the midst of the most disruptive period in public education in recent memory, Jason Whiting chose two paths that stand out as exceptional: first, reflecting upon his practice he saw the urgency for more student agency; second, with a little support and a little inspiration, he was willing to try something entirely new: what if while learning grade 4 Math and Language his students could help even just one person? Made2HelpOttawa (Website) Made2help Podcast Made2HelpOttawa (Twitter) J...
OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E4)- Project 'True' North Part 3 - Jessica McIntyre and the Narrative Past
April 30, 2021 21:11 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBIn our third episode in a 3-part series exploring the OCDSB's Project 'True' North, I talk to Jessica McIntyre. Jessica joined 15 educators in the OCDSB in the initial launch of Project ‘True’ North, an initiative that seeks to disrupt the approach to learning history as a means to developing an ignored narrative from Canadian History, written by learners. Jessica’s approach to learning is as perfect an example of any I’ve encountered in the raw emotion you can feel in her description of un...
OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E3): Project 'True' North Part 2 - Project 'True' North In The Hands and Minds of Students (with Blake Seaward)
April 23, 2021 20:20 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBIn our second episode of a 3-part series exploring the OCDSB's Project 'True' North, we turn the microphone over to students at Glebe Collegiate Institute, English Language Learners, who have been learning about Harry Timothy Jones, a member of the No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canada’s all-Black battalion from the First World War. The song "Andrew William" features in this episode, written by singer/songwriter Chris White about his grandfather, William Andrew White the chaplain of the No. ...
OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E3): Project 'True' North Part 2 - Project 'True' North In The Hands and Minds of Students (with Blake Seward)
April 23, 2021 20:20 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBIn our second episode of a 3-part series exploring the OCDSB's Project 'True' North, we turn the microphone over to students at Glebe Collegiate Institute, English Language Learners, who have been learning about Harry Timothy Jones, a member of the No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canada’s all-Black battalion from the First World War. The song "Andrew William" features in this episode, written by singer/songwriter Chris White about his grandfather, William Andrew White the chaplain of the No. ...
OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E2): Project 'True' North Part 1 - The Lest We Forget to Project 'True' North with Blake Seward
March 26, 2021 20:47 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MBIn our second episode of Season 2, we begin a 3-part series exploring Project 'True' North; an approach to history learning that has students doing history as historians do. In our first episode we speak with Blake Seward, the architect of The Lest We Forget Project. We discuss the origins of The Lest We Forget Project, and the beginnings of Project 'True' North, concepts for historical thinking, learning with evidence, and the philosophical foundations of Project 'True' North.
OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E2): Project 'True' North Part 1 - The Lest We Forget to Project 'True' North with Blake Seaward
March 26, 2021 20:47 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MBIn our second episode of Season 2, we begin a 3-part series exploring Project 'True' North; an approach to history learning that has students doing history as historians do. In our first episode we speak with Blake Seaward, the architect of The Lest We Forget Project. We discuss the origins of The Lest We Forget Project, and the beginnings of Project 'True' North, concepts for historical thinking, learning with evidence, and the philosophical foundations of Project 'True' North.
OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E1): Finding our Voices; Podcasting to the World
February 24, 2021 21:34 - 40 minutes - 74.2 MBIn episode 1 of our second season we talk to Angela Robinson, a grade 8 teacher from Henry Larsen Elementary School, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. What began as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, became an approach to learning: What if a cross-curricular project in podcasting became the medium for students to discover their voices, and, at the same time, provided a means to create the stories they wanted to hear. Connecting with local radio, and podcast personalities, students at Henry Lar...
OCDSBXL Podcast (E2): Growing Thinkers; Feeding Learning
January 10, 2020 13:10 - 33 minutes - 38.8 MBIn episode 2 we talk with Derek Brez from Sir Guy Carleton Secondary School, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Derek is pushing the boundaries of what Science education looks like in high schools, with some of the most reluctant learners. When the learning involves authentic challenges of growing food "north of 60", and creating the tools that support a farm-to-cafeteria vision that feeds and nourishes the school community, one can hardly be surprised that the reluctant learner becomes an active...
OCDSBXL Podcast (E1): Learning is Messy; Standing Back is the Hard Work
October 31, 2019 00:08 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MBIn our inaugural episode we talk with Leslie Mott from North Gower Marlborough Public School, in North Gower, Ontario, Canada. Leslie reflects on the story of powerful learning with grade 4 and 5 students in the Spring of 2019; the journey that meandered from student directed time, to student driven initiatives, to students as creators and Leslie as a learner and enabler.