Innovation in Action

Mystery Skype

Keewatin-Patricia DSB (2015)

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Viewer’s Guide

Introduction:
This video provides a glimpse into a grade 4 classroom in the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board in Red Lake, Ontario. It shows how new learning partnerships between teachers and students, within and beyond the classroom walls, are being developed through real-world, authentic tasks.

Description:
This video highlights a learning experience called “Mystery Skype” being used in a Grade 4 Social Studies class. The educator, Martene Herbert, explains why she chose this activity and how it has impacted her teaching and her students’ learning.

Themes and ideas:

Global connectivity Co-learning Deep learning

This video is for:

Classroom educators

Discussion questions:

How does the technology help students deepen their learning? How might you use Skype or other video chat applications in your classroom? Describe the new pedagogies* that you witnessed. Discuss.

	*New pedagogies can be succinctly defined as:
	New learning partnerships between and among students and teachers. Deep learning tasks that re-structure the learning process towards knowledge creation and purposeful use. Digital tools and resources that enable and accelerate the process of deep learning.

Fullan, M., & Langworthy, M. (2014). A rich seam: How new pedagogies find deep learning. London: Pearson.

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