Wayfinder Learning Lab – Stephen Taylor

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  • This Post Was Written By AI

    [Edit: This post was written in October 2022. I don’t think any of us expected ChatGPT to come along less than two months later and flip everything on its head. Interesting times…] The AI text below was likely GPT-2 level.… Continue reading

    This Post Was Written By AI

  • Recording A DJ Mix Using A Virtual Cable

    A bit of a departure from education posts… over the summer here in Beijing, I got back into mixing and relearned some old skills. I also picked up some new technical skills, including the complexity of recording sets on a… Continue reading

    Recording A DJ Mix Using A Virtual Cable

  • Visualising The New MYP Interdisciplinary Learning Objectives

    A quick post to share a graphic (made in Canva) to visualise the objectives for the new MYP Interdisciplinary Learning Guide (link to source, MyIB login needed)*. I’ve also updated my MYP overview MegaSheet to include the new rubrics, though… Continue reading

    Visualising The New MYP Interdisciplinary Learning Objectives

  • ATL Tracking Ideas

    Back in 2015 I started building an MYP Megasheet of rubrics, subject-area overviews and other resources. Newly-added: some ATL tracking visualisations. There are some ideas for overall ATL development, as well as targeting a few specific skills and/or skills within… Continue reading

    ATL Tracking Ideas

  • The Posts Unblogged & A Life Less Ordinary

    It has been tough to blog over the past year or so. My list of unfinished drafts is a post in itself. Continue reading

    The Posts Unblogged & A Life Less Ordinary

  • Personal Project Quick Comment Spreadsheet

    UPDATE 2022: Thanks to Terea Marcum for updating this for the new Guide. Please click here to see her version. Thank-you!  Spreadsheet to help with comment generation and moderation of MYP Personal Project. It is a long job, particularly with… Continue reading

    Personal Project Quick Comment Spreadsheet

  • The Buoyant Force: L2 Talk & FOEN Workshop

    This was a great challenge during the Learning2 Conference last week in Nanjing. It was my first time at the conference and I was looking for an experience that would push me and provide something to think about. I presented… Continue reading

    The Buoyant Force: L2 Talk & FOEN Workshop

  • Clear is Kind.

    I love this post from Brené Brown, adapted from her book Dare to Lead: “Clear is Kind. Unclear is Unkind.” In leadership roles in spaces with many moving parts and challenges, I’ve learned that unnecessary ambiguity can lead to unnecessary… Continue reading

  • Middle Leadership: The Sponge

    A rough metaphor for leading from the middle, the Middle Leader Sponge often has to clean up spills and messes and absorb the stresses or worries of others so that they can go about their own job without passing on… Continue reading

  • Reductive Rubrics, Authenticity & Opportunities for Learning

    A quick post to share an animated gif, made in the new Keynote 9 update. It is a rebuild of a lower-quality animation I made years ago and use often, inspired by a cartoon I saw but cannot track down… Continue reading

  • A Megadose of Vitamin Sea

    Transition years can be full-on and exhausting. New country, new role, new friends, kids, colleagues, tech, language, environment, expectations, opportunities. Embracing the new and trying to avoid old traps. Parenting through transitions and creating new memories. Overcoming challenges when things… Continue reading

  • Cultures of Thinking & Global Thinking Routine Posters

    A few quick visual posters for elements of Creating Cultures of Thinking. I made these as we work towards some of our goals in the WAB HS and in parallel with my role as a coach in the #CCOTOnline course.… Continue reading

  • Make It Easier To Do Better Things

    A simple mantra, but one I hold onto as a learning/tech coach, leaned on as PK-12 Director of Learning and will cling to next year as MYP Coordinator. It was the “key concept” of my #HackTheMYP IBAP Conference session in… Continue reading

  • My Top #EdTech in 2018

    This year I jumped the Great Firewall and landed in China, in a new life and new role as High School Learning & Technology Coach. It has been a great learning experience so far, and as a techy learning nerd,… Continue reading

  • This year in #MYPChat

    This was a fun year in the #MYPChat PLN (professional learning community)!  We started the journey way back in 2013 with some seasons of weekly hour-long twitter chats based, going through the Next Chapter phase of MYP. Over the years,… Continue reading