DAVID WEES
Thoughts from a reflective educator.
Most livable city
We had Daanish Ali, the producer of the video below, come to our school and share his film with us (embedded below). I strongly recommend that if you live in an urban centre, you should watch this video. While it talks about water issues in the downtown East Side of Vancouver, I'm sure that similar issues exist in every major city in the world.
It is a great starting place for a discussion about urban water use, and very accessible for your students. Our kids finished watching the video and had some great questions.
Most Livable City from Pull Focus Films on Vimeo.
About David
David is a mathematics teacher and a learning specialist for technology at Stratford Hall in Vancouver, BC. He has been teaching since 2002, and has worked in Brooklyn, London, and Bangkok before moving back to Canada. He has his Masters degree in Educational Technology from UBC, and is the co-author of a mathematics textbook. He has been published in ISTE's Leading and Learning, Educational Technology Solutions, The Software Developers Journal, The Bangkok Post and Edutopia. He blogs with the Cooperative Catalyst, and is the Assessment group facilitator for Edutopia. He has also helped organize the first Edcamp in Canada, and TEDxKIDS@BC.
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David, Thanks so much for
David,
Thanks so much for sharing this link. It's an incredibly powerful piece of text. I live in a small northern community and the same issues arise here - no place to get a drink, nowhere to go to the bathroom... Then the community complains that people use inappropriate spaces to relieve themselves. We leave them little choice. I'm planning on doing a social justice/global research project later this year with one of my classes - this will be an excellent intro. Thanks.
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