About

Teacher: Jaclyn Calder
Contact: jcalder@scdsb.on.ca
Blog: http://teachercalder.ca


This course is a GLS1O Learning Strategies. Grade 9 students at MSS were all asked to bring a laptop or tablet to school this year. This course will use the expectations and themes from GLS1O to support students developing skills required for success in school using their devices.

• Skills for Success 
• Yourself as a learner (strengths and needs) 
• Technology to support learning 
• Communication 
• Organization 
• Planning for the future 
• Numeracy 
• Gap Closing 
• Multiples (lowest common multiples, factors, etc.) 
• Problem Solving Skills 
• War Brothers (a novel or graphic novel about child soldiers) 
• Literacy 
• Global Collaborations 
• OSSLT Prep 
• Conflict Resolution 
• Environmental Literacy 
• Earthwatchers and deforestation in Borneo as our theme 
• Health and Well-Being 
• SPARK 
• balancing screen time and non-screen time 
• Mind Set 
• Digital Citizenship and Literacy 
• Netiquette 
• Safety online 
• Research Information 
• Sourcing information and media 
• Wikipedia 
• Genius Time 
• Here you will put the strategies and skills you develop over the semester to use to focus your learning on something that interests you. 
• My Hero project