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Chilliwack middle school administrator Aaron Parker (centre) works with his team to create a prototype that would protect animals from harm during a flood, during a professional development day at UFV on Friday called Maker Day. JESSICA PETERS/ PROGRESS
Learning through doing at ‘Maker Days’ Jessica Peters The Progress “What did you learn today?” is one of the most futile questions from parent to child, almost always followed by a disinterested “nothing.” But it doesn’t always mean they aren’t learning. As more teachers embrace hands-on learning, a more apt question could be “what did you make today?” The culture of education has been shifting toward teaching all students to learn through doing, rather than relying largely on rote learning and memorization of facts. And at the forefront of
this culture shift are Dr. Susan Crichton and Deb Carter, from the Innovative Learning Centre at UBC Okanagan. Together with the Industry Training Authority of B.C., they have created something called Maker Days. They’ve led workshops for students and teachers all over the province over the last two years, and on Friday they came to Chilliwack to offer professional development to Fraser Valley educators. Quite fittingly, they held Maker Day in the cafeteria of UFV’s Trades and Technology Centre. About 60 educators showed up to take part, and were quickly sorted into teams and given the same task — to create a prototype of a
system that would keep animals and livestock fed and free from harm in the event of a flood. It’s a very real problem and requires real, workable solutions here in the Fraser Valley. And it was a challenge that kept these various teachers, administrators and librarians busy all day long. Crichton and a handful of facilitators walked from table to table, watching the eager ‘students’ go through the whole design process, encouraging them and reminding them of their end goals. The teachers-turnedstudents moved through collaboration and understanding the task at hand, to creating a workable solution to the problem, right
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Don’t even think of buying the new book allegedly written by convicted killer Robert Pickton. That’s the latest from Ernie Crey of Chilliwack, whose sister Dawn Crey’s DNA was found at the Pickton pig farm in Port Coquitlam. He is furious that Canada’s most notorious serial killer may have penned a jailhouse memoir, called Pickton: In His Own Words. “People have been asking how I feel about this. I am angry, upset and troubled by it,” Crey told The Progress. The publisher, Outskirts Press, has since caved in to public pressure. “Outskirts Press has ceased publication of this book and is asking Amazon to remove the book from their website.” It wasn’t just the bad press, though. “We have a long-standing policy of not working with, nor publishing work by, incarcerated individuals,” according to the publishers. Pickton was likely aware of their “no-tolerance policy” when he cooked up the scheme to use a ghost writer, they noted online. “Outskirts Press apologizes to the families of the victims for any additional heartache this may have caused.” Despite that, there is still an urgent and pressing need for a law in B.C. that would prevent anyone