Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l'éducation
This research examines the extent to which issues identified in Breaking Anonymity (The Chilly Co... more This research examines the extent to which issues identified in Breaking Anonymity (The Chilly Collective, 1995) are still salient despite new EDI mandates/programs which support increased research excellence through EDI principles. We present survey results for Canadian academics who identify as women (n = 244) regarding their experiences with gender-based harassment and discrimination. Our analysis identified three categories of patriarchal gendered control: (1) overt practices, (2) covert practices, and (3) a systematic effort to silence the reporting of these experiences. We highlight the voices of women academics as they provide personal insights into the continuing barriers through their experiences. Through their stories, the implications of existing overt and covert harassment and discrimination practices are discussed. Our study provides an overview of women academics’ experiences with oppression by their male colleagues and contributes to research exploring equity and incl...
Professional development (PD) is crucial in creating a successful and effective teaching and lear... more Professional development (PD) is crucial in creating a successful and effective teaching and learning environment. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, many teachers had to learn and master technology quickly. Therefore, PD programs became highly important to support teachers’ needs while exploring and learning online tech tools and implementing them in their educational environment. During Spring 2021, 14 educators participated in PD sessions related to mathematics and making activities and focused on introducing new virtual tech tools (CoSpaces Edu, iRobot, Tinkercad, Scratch, Ozobot). The primary goal of this paper was to gain insight into teachers’ user experiences regarding the tech tools and to understand their experiences and challenges using these tools in online settings. The study results showed that some teachers found it challenging to access technological tools and allocate time to design and create learning environments with them, especially during the pandemic. However, they w...
Computational Participation (CP) expands upon Computational Thinking (CT) by incorporating themes... more Computational Participation (CP) expands upon Computational Thinking (CT) by incorporating themes of problem-solving, creativity, and digital collaboration and communication. In the Fall of 2021, we partnered with two school boards to facilitate Professional Learning (PL) sessions with a broad community of educators and co-facilitated learning sessions with select classroom teachers. Both PL and co-facilitation learning sessions related to curriculum expectations for mathematics and coding. Instead of teaching coding for coding’s sake, our goal was to prepare teachers to use coding to help students understand mathematics under the pedagogical framework of CP. The questions guiding our overall research were to identify ways teachers can integrate CP while teaching mathematics in a meaningful way and identify the various learning opportunities that students gain when CP is integrated. Our research indicated that CP results in learning environments supportive of collaborative learning,...
Revista Internacional de Pesquisa em Educação Matemática
Computer programming has permeated many fields as a tool to model phenomena and processes and to ... more Computer programming has permeated many fields as a tool to model phenomena and processes and to make new discoveries. Curricula in many jurisdictions have been revised to use computer languages across K-12, and in some cases in mathematics education. The literature suggests that while digital media in mathematics education can be used as tools that serve our purposes, they also serve to reorganize knowledge. This paper investigates the interactions among computer programming and mathematics teaching and learning. Our data sources are a) Ontario curriculum documents, b) resources developed by our team in Ontario and in Brazil, and c) our research in Ontario and Brazil. diSessa’s idea of computational literacy serves as a theoretical framework and as an analytical lens for conceptualizing how the integration of computer programming may alter the structure and experience of school mathematics.
İngilizce öğretmek için hevesli olan öğretmenleri yetiştiren eğitmenler olarak, öğrencilerimizin ... more İngilizce öğretmek için hevesli olan öğretmenleri yetiştiren eğitmenler olarak, öğrencilerimizin genel olarak şiir öğretme fikrinden korktuğunu görüyoruz. Ayrıca, şiirin onların gönderildikleri okullarda kendi alanlarında öğretmeleri istenen en yaygın tür olduğunu da görüyoruz. Kanada ve İngiltere'deki mesleğe yeni başlayan öğretmenleri bir Wiki'de bir araya getiren bu projeye onların şiir öğretme konusunda hissettikleri bazı gerilimleri araştırmak için giriştik. Projeye dahil olan 56 öğretmen adayı tarafından ifade edilen yedi önyargı belirledik: Öğrenciler şiiri sıkıcı bulmakta ve ona direnç göstermekteydiler; okul hayatları boyunca öğretmen adaylarının tecrübe ettiği şekliyle şiir seçkinci ve çoğu zaman erişilemezdi; şiir çoğu sınıfta yüzeysel olarak vardır ve zaman kısıtlamaları söz konusu olduğunda İngilizce programlarından kolayca çıkartılabilen bir süs olarak kabul edilir; öğrenciler tarafından yazılan şiiri değerlendirmek zordur; analize aşırı vurgu yapmak şiir öğret...
This article chronicles a research study in two middle schools in Canada where teachers and learn... more This article chronicles a research study in two middle schools in Canada where teachers and learners were engaged to create and integrate digital texts representative of social justice issues into the school curriculum. The article illustrates through samples of digital texts the tacit skills of students that are not readily seen in schools. Centred within a multiliteracies pedagogy (New London Group, 1996; Cope & Kalantzis, 2000), young adolescents were exposed to global issues through critical readings of children’s social justice picture books and young adult novels (Freire & Macedo, 1987, Christenson, 2000) . The adolescents’ critical reading and writing of digital and print texts raised understanding of the nexus between socio-political and economic injustice, hence showing them as critical agents of change within their school communities.
Although reform is typically associated with change on a grand, pervasive scale, our model is muc... more Although reform is typically associated with change on a grand, pervasive scale, our model is much less intrusive pedagogically. We are not seeking a revolution in mathematics education, but a strategic focus on mathematics worthy of attention, worthy of conversation, worthy of children's incredible minds, which thirst for knowledge and for opportunities to explore, question, flex their imagination, discover, discuss and share their learning. We believe that occasional, well-designed aesthetic mathematics experiences "that are immersive, infused with meaning, and felt as coherent and complete" (Parrish, 2009, p.511), and the associated experience of complex, surprising, emotionally engaging, and viscerally pleasing mathematics, can serve as "a process of enculturation" (Brown, Collins and Duguid, 1989, p. 33) with lasting impact on students' (and teachers') dispositions, living fruitfully in future experiences (Dewey, 1938), by raising expectation and...
This paper chronicles one instructor’s experiences using a social networking site (Ning) to teach... more This paper chronicles one instructor’s experiences using a social networking site (Ning) to teach two graduate courses in education. It explores the decisions made in setting up the Ning and the affordances of teaching using a blended model of synchronous and asynchronous learning in UOIT’s online graduate program. The focus is specifically on the benefits and challenges of using a Ning network and Ning’s pedagogical potential for collaborative knowledge construction, the creation of a community of practice, which fosters social presence and multimodal communication.
Using a mixed method research approach of qualitative case study analysis and quantitative survey... more Using a mixed method research approach of qualitative case study analysis and quantitative surveying, this research1 investigates the development of adolescent digital literacies and their use of mobile devices to further their understandings. More specifically, this article focuses on how a class of adolescents, ages 12-13, reflected on the impact of digital technologies and media on their lives while immersed in a rich media setting, using a social networking site and a combination of their own mobile devices and tablets that were provided to them by their classroom teacher.
Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l'éducation
This research examines the extent to which issues identified in Breaking Anonymity (The Chilly Co... more This research examines the extent to which issues identified in Breaking Anonymity (The Chilly Collective, 1995) are still salient despite new EDI mandates/programs which support increased research excellence through EDI principles. We present survey results for Canadian academics who identify as women (n = 244) regarding their experiences with gender-based harassment and discrimination. Our analysis identified three categories of patriarchal gendered control: (1) overt practices, (2) covert practices, and (3) a systematic effort to silence the reporting of these experiences. We highlight the voices of women academics as they provide personal insights into the continuing barriers through their experiences. Through their stories, the implications of existing overt and covert harassment and discrimination practices are discussed. Our study provides an overview of women academics’ experiences with oppression by their male colleagues and contributes to research exploring equity and incl...
Professional development (PD) is crucial in creating a successful and effective teaching and lear... more Professional development (PD) is crucial in creating a successful and effective teaching and learning environment. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, many teachers had to learn and master technology quickly. Therefore, PD programs became highly important to support teachers’ needs while exploring and learning online tech tools and implementing them in their educational environment. During Spring 2021, 14 educators participated in PD sessions related to mathematics and making activities and focused on introducing new virtual tech tools (CoSpaces Edu, iRobot, Tinkercad, Scratch, Ozobot). The primary goal of this paper was to gain insight into teachers’ user experiences regarding the tech tools and to understand their experiences and challenges using these tools in online settings. The study results showed that some teachers found it challenging to access technological tools and allocate time to design and create learning environments with them, especially during the pandemic. However, they w...
Computational Participation (CP) expands upon Computational Thinking (CT) by incorporating themes... more Computational Participation (CP) expands upon Computational Thinking (CT) by incorporating themes of problem-solving, creativity, and digital collaboration and communication. In the Fall of 2021, we partnered with two school boards to facilitate Professional Learning (PL) sessions with a broad community of educators and co-facilitated learning sessions with select classroom teachers. Both PL and co-facilitation learning sessions related to curriculum expectations for mathematics and coding. Instead of teaching coding for coding’s sake, our goal was to prepare teachers to use coding to help students understand mathematics under the pedagogical framework of CP. The questions guiding our overall research were to identify ways teachers can integrate CP while teaching mathematics in a meaningful way and identify the various learning opportunities that students gain when CP is integrated. Our research indicated that CP results in learning environments supportive of collaborative learning,...
Revista Internacional de Pesquisa em Educação Matemática
Computer programming has permeated many fields as a tool to model phenomena and processes and to ... more Computer programming has permeated many fields as a tool to model phenomena and processes and to make new discoveries. Curricula in many jurisdictions have been revised to use computer languages across K-12, and in some cases in mathematics education. The literature suggests that while digital media in mathematics education can be used as tools that serve our purposes, they also serve to reorganize knowledge. This paper investigates the interactions among computer programming and mathematics teaching and learning. Our data sources are a) Ontario curriculum documents, b) resources developed by our team in Ontario and in Brazil, and c) our research in Ontario and Brazil. diSessa’s idea of computational literacy serves as a theoretical framework and as an analytical lens for conceptualizing how the integration of computer programming may alter the structure and experience of school mathematics.
İngilizce öğretmek için hevesli olan öğretmenleri yetiştiren eğitmenler olarak, öğrencilerimizin ... more İngilizce öğretmek için hevesli olan öğretmenleri yetiştiren eğitmenler olarak, öğrencilerimizin genel olarak şiir öğretme fikrinden korktuğunu görüyoruz. Ayrıca, şiirin onların gönderildikleri okullarda kendi alanlarında öğretmeleri istenen en yaygın tür olduğunu da görüyoruz. Kanada ve İngiltere'deki mesleğe yeni başlayan öğretmenleri bir Wiki'de bir araya getiren bu projeye onların şiir öğretme konusunda hissettikleri bazı gerilimleri araştırmak için giriştik. Projeye dahil olan 56 öğretmen adayı tarafından ifade edilen yedi önyargı belirledik: Öğrenciler şiiri sıkıcı bulmakta ve ona direnç göstermekteydiler; okul hayatları boyunca öğretmen adaylarının tecrübe ettiği şekliyle şiir seçkinci ve çoğu zaman erişilemezdi; şiir çoğu sınıfta yüzeysel olarak vardır ve zaman kısıtlamaları söz konusu olduğunda İngilizce programlarından kolayca çıkartılabilen bir süs olarak kabul edilir; öğrenciler tarafından yazılan şiiri değerlendirmek zordur; analize aşırı vurgu yapmak şiir öğret...
This article chronicles a research study in two middle schools in Canada where teachers and learn... more This article chronicles a research study in two middle schools in Canada where teachers and learners were engaged to create and integrate digital texts representative of social justice issues into the school curriculum. The article illustrates through samples of digital texts the tacit skills of students that are not readily seen in schools. Centred within a multiliteracies pedagogy (New London Group, 1996; Cope & Kalantzis, 2000), young adolescents were exposed to global issues through critical readings of children’s social justice picture books and young adult novels (Freire & Macedo, 1987, Christenson, 2000) . The adolescents’ critical reading and writing of digital and print texts raised understanding of the nexus between socio-political and economic injustice, hence showing them as critical agents of change within their school communities.
Although reform is typically associated with change on a grand, pervasive scale, our model is muc... more Although reform is typically associated with change on a grand, pervasive scale, our model is much less intrusive pedagogically. We are not seeking a revolution in mathematics education, but a strategic focus on mathematics worthy of attention, worthy of conversation, worthy of children's incredible minds, which thirst for knowledge and for opportunities to explore, question, flex their imagination, discover, discuss and share their learning. We believe that occasional, well-designed aesthetic mathematics experiences "that are immersive, infused with meaning, and felt as coherent and complete" (Parrish, 2009, p.511), and the associated experience of complex, surprising, emotionally engaging, and viscerally pleasing mathematics, can serve as "a process of enculturation" (Brown, Collins and Duguid, 1989, p. 33) with lasting impact on students' (and teachers') dispositions, living fruitfully in future experiences (Dewey, 1938), by raising expectation and...
This paper chronicles one instructor’s experiences using a social networking site (Ning) to teach... more This paper chronicles one instructor’s experiences using a social networking site (Ning) to teach two graduate courses in education. It explores the decisions made in setting up the Ning and the affordances of teaching using a blended model of synchronous and asynchronous learning in UOIT’s online graduate program. The focus is specifically on the benefits and challenges of using a Ning network and Ning’s pedagogical potential for collaborative knowledge construction, the creation of a community of practice, which fosters social presence and multimodal communication.
Using a mixed method research approach of qualitative case study analysis and quantitative survey... more Using a mixed method research approach of qualitative case study analysis and quantitative surveying, this research1 investigates the development of adolescent digital literacies and their use of mobile devices to further their understandings. More specifically, this article focuses on how a class of adolescents, ages 12-13, reflected on the impact of digital technologies and media on their lives while immersed in a rich media setting, using a social networking site and a combination of their own mobile devices and tablets that were provided to them by their classroom teacher.
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