
Patti Kingsmill
Pedagogical Support and Innovation
Judy Ingerman
Humanities
Kelly Macdonald
Social and Cultural Sciences
Heather Roffey
Biology
The OCSA project aims to integrate online curation (OC) and social annotation (SA) into the classroom. Both strategies help develop critical thinking, research, reading, communication, collaboration, digital skills, and are excellent strategies for active learning classrooms.
Like disruptive technologies, both require new approaches to ensure student success: new pedagogical practices, teaching methods, learning activities, and assessment rubrics. This is why we have formed the OCSA team: with the support of Vanier’s Pedagogical Support and Innovation office (PSI), three teachers with release time are developing strategies, teaching tools, and resources to integrate online curation and social annotation …
Read More +The OCSA project aims to integrate online curation (OC) and social annotation (SA) into the classroom. Both strategies help develop critical thinking, research, reading, communication, collaboration, digital skills, and are excellent strategies for active learning classrooms.
Like disruptive technologies, both require new approaches to ensure student success: new pedagogical practices, teaching methods, learning activities, and assessment rubrics. This is why we have formed the OCSA team: with the support of Vanier’s Pedagogical Support and Innovation office (PSI), three teachers with release time are developing strategies, teaching tools, and resources to integrate online curation and social annotation in their courses and promote their use among their peers.
The OCSA Community of Practice consists of other teachers who work with the OCSA team as they experiment with these strategies in their own courses.
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Judy Ingerman
Humanities
Kelly Macdonald
Social and Cultural Sciences
Heather Roffey
Biology